User blog comment:Duchland/The Two Great Wars in one?/@comment-1310192-20100913202641

Well, Duchland, a war lasting from 1914-1945 would be almost surely impossible. Perhaps if Franz Ferdinand was killed later, the Ottoman Empire and Italy would have mantained loyalties with Germany and Austro-Hungary, and if the Great Depression was similar or lighter than what it was, it would be possible for a single great war. Another idea would be a stalemate around 1918-1930, in which both sides healed it's wounds and then continued the World Wars. de facto it would be a single world war, but de jure it would be two....