President george h. w. bush was able to convince u. n. forces to invade iraq in a military effort known as "operation desert storm" because nations feared

Nations feared that Iraq would build nukes and blow everything up

In financial aspects, a depression is a sustained, long haul downturn in monetary movement in one or more economies. it is a more extreme monetary downturn than a recession, which is a slowdown in financial action through the span of a typical business cycle. a depression is an irregular and extreme type of recession. so depression is always followed by recession but it is not correct to state that a depression always follow a recession.