Candidates of the New Greatest Generation

[Antonio the Sixth]

I read their book and according to it, there has to be a Crisis which helps to define a "Great" Generation.  I don't think the Sept 11th 2001 attacks count nor does the 2008-09 financial crisis.  I think it will possibly be in the next decade.  The "greatest generation" was from 1900-1925, and their crisis started with the Great Depression in 1932 or the entry into World War II in 1941.  That is respectively 7 and 16 years after the last year in which a greatest generation member was born.  If we use 2003 as the last year of this greatest generation, then the current crisis could happen anywhere from 2010 to 2019.  I think that it will happen either in an Obama second term or the next president's first term. 

Hmm interesting, however the Great Depression started in 1929 and assuming the last of Generation Y was born in 2003, four years after would be 2007-about the start of the current financial crisis. Perhaps other crisis we can see are the following:

1. A nuclear Iran (Possible but Iran will be much less of a threat then the Nazis and Japan)
2. A very bad global warming (Unlikely especially in the near future)
3. The current recession becoming a true depression (Possible although already there are signs of recovery)
4. A new cold war against Russia or China. (Unlikely especially with Obama's dovish foreign policy)
5. World War 3 against the above. (Very unlikely. No President will be stupid enough to do so.

ohhh... that makes me stupid

A nth proof.