To be nitpicky, cycling through Yugas is not just a Buddhist concept, but is also featured in Hindu, Sikh, and Jain thought as well.

To address your question...it's tough to really apply a generalization like Strauss-Howe without kind of picking and choosing which parts fit the theory. More often than not, you have to be searching for evidence that supports the theory rather than searching for a theory to support the broader evidence. It has always been more effective in my experience to look at each point as a reaction to their recent past rather than apply such an archetype as this theory.