Why was WW1, WW2, and Cold War a 100 yrs. war? (generated one after another/unresolved issues)-long answer?

Answer 1

One might say that resolution of WWI set Germany back economically and politically, and in Germany's efforts to regain status, security and power, WWII began. The end of WWII led to the separation of Europe into "democracy" and "communism" which is all the Cold War was. All the battles throughout the Cold War have their root in this separation. It's a linkage historians make all the time, but there are no specific battles or people that connect the wars explicitly over 100 years. It's more of a sequence of events.

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Treaty of Versailles
Rise of Fascism: Germany, Italy
Communist Revolution: Russia
Berlin Wall
Cold War: Cuba, Afghanistan, Nicaragua

Answer 2

I think it's an interesting question. The Hundred Years' War (1337-1443), much like the conflicts mentioned above was not a hundred years of constant fighting. However, you can say that one king fought another, and ended when gunpowder and internal dissent in England gave the king of France the edge. Comparing this to the wars mentioned above, while they concerned one alliance system against another (Alliance vs. Entente, Allied vs. Axis, and West vs. East), the powers shifted. In WW1, the war was mainly fought by France, Britain and Russia against Germany. Of course, the US joined in in 1917, and Austria fought throughout the war, but the fact remain: France, England and Russia did most of the fighting. WW2 opposed England, the US and Russia against France, Italy, Germany. The Cold War opposed capitalism and socialism.
I guess what I am trying to say is that while the conflicts do seem to be linked, and lasted almost one hundred year, they are conflicts that have different themes. For instance, WW1 was a result of the escalation of tensions between France, England and their empire and Germany. WW2 was linked as much by the Great Depression as WW1, they are essentially different conflicts. The Cold War is even more different in that it opposed two new enemies, and was a conflict of competing ideologies and as such cannot be classified as being the same conflict.
The Hundred Years' War (the medieval one), had one major theme that linked all the conflicts: France's refusal to recognize the King of England as the King of France, and problems linked to Feudalism. Therefore, that conflict was more or less one succession of smaller conflicts because the original problem had not been resolved. This was not the case with WW1, WW2 and the Cold War.
Does that answer your question?

Answer 3

Well, as it has not yet been 100 years since the beginning of World War I, and since the Cold War supposedly ended several years ago, I'd say the answer to this is, they do NOT constitute a 100 years war.