re: #47 Dr Lizardo

WWI and WWII were the same war, with a 21-year ceasefire in between. So in that reckoning, the Great European War lasted from 1914 to 1945. As he pointed out, it technically didn’t really end until Germany regained her sovereignty in 1991 and was no longer an occupied nation.

I agree with that, and I’ve also always thought (without anything “scholarly” backing me up, just my own opinion) that to this very day we’re still feeling the effects of WWII. Tons of technology and modern political situations are direct ripples of that huge global upheaval (see North Korea for only one example).