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Europe was at war with itself in the first half of the twentieth century with a long cease-fire. Comment.

  • UPSC 2021
  • World Wars

The claim treats 1914-1945 not as two separate wars but as a single, prolonged European civil war interrupted by an armed interwar truce (1919-1939).

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  • The Case for One Continuous European War
  • Why "Cease-Fire" Understates the Interwar Years
  • Reconciling the Two Readings

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