[deafpolygon]

This is unfortunately seeming like a possibility. Everyone has forgotten how long WW2 took to brew before it broke out. WW2 is listed as having started in the year 1939, but events that led up to it started as early as 1931 depending on who you talk to. It's commonly agreed that events were already happening in 1935-1937 that triggered the war in 1939.

[thejackgoode]

AFAIK there is quite widespread consensus that WW1 and WW2 are the same conflict with a break. To be fair, they took ~100 years of nation-building and conflicts brewing after Napoleonic wars to get to that point.

[hdjrbrbn]

Depending on what you read, the end of WW1 created the seeds for WW2 basically due to the war reparations that Germany had to pay. This in turn created the hyperinflation which stoked unrest, and allowed the Nazis to flourish. John Maynard Keynes warned against the war reparations but none listened.

[hdjrbrbn]

Source: Lords of Finance