It Is Not All As It Seems

I was sitting in my Modern US history class today and I had one of those moments where you realize something you always knew. We were talking about the end of World War I, the Great Depression, and the start of World War II. As we were talking about how technically WWI never ended and was essentially was just a temporary peace and how WWI was a leading cause of the Great Depression, I started thinking about how WWII was what helped end the Depression. This struck me as a circle I had never completed. I knew that WWI led to the Depression and that WWII ended it. But I never fully connected it and once we started discussing how WWI never really ended, it led me to think about how it was really all just one big continuous motion that was not as defined by starts and finishes. I have always considered history to be a continuum that is only vaguely put into time frames, but I have never encountered such a pristine example of such. There is my history nerd-out for the day.