Developments in Syria may also fall short of triggering another such war, if the 30 January air raid is anything to judge by.

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He also assumed the title king of France in 1340, triggering the Hundred Years' War.

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Economic Minister Ludwig Erhard did so after World War II, triggering the so-called German Economic Miracle, which didn't sputter out until the mid-1970s.

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