Progressive vs Cyclical history

[Tom Mazanec]

Mentions The Fourth Turning http://thefederalist.com/2017/04/12/pro ... w-history/

[josa0512]

Can someone explain to me why WW2 happened only 21 years after WW1? According to Generational theory, shouldn't there have been a gap of at least 56 years between WW1 and WW2? When WW2 broke out, almost all of the survivors of WW1 were still in power. Why didn't they prevent such a terrible war from happening?

[John]

> Can someone explain to me why WW2 happened only 21 years after
> WW1? According to Generational theory, shouldn't there have been
> a gap of at least 56 years between WW1 and WW2? When WW2 broke
> out, almost all of the survivors of WW1 were still in power. Why
> didn't they prevent such a terrible war from happening?

In the better late than never department:

Wars happen all the time, but not all of them are generational crisis
wars. World War I was a non-crisis war for the United States and
Western Europe, and was a crisis war for Eastern Europe, Russia and
the Mideast. Other non-crisis wars for the US include the War of
1812, the Mexican-American war, the Spanish-American war, the Korean
war, the Vietnam war, the Gulf war, and the Iraq war.