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The Lost Generation was the demographic cohort that reached early adulthood during World War I, and preceded the Greatest Generation. The social generation is generally defined as people born from 1883 to 1900, coming of age in either the 1900s or the 1910s, and were the first generation to mature in the 20th century .
This article contains a list of writers from a variety of national backgrounds who have been considered to be part of the Lost Generation. [1] The Lost Generation includes people born between 1883 and 1900, and the term is generally applied to reference the work of these individuals during the 1920s.
The social generation is generally defined as people born from 1901 to 1927. [1] They were shaped by the Great Depression and were the primary generation composing the enlisted forces in World War II. Most people of the Greatest Generation are the parents of the Silent Generation and Baby Boomers, and they are the children of the Lost Generation.
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The term second generation warfare was created by the U.S. military in 1989. Third-generation warfare focuses on using late modern technology-derived tactics of leveraging speed, stealth, and surprise to bypass the enemy's lines and collapse their forces from the rear. Essentially, this was the end of linear warfare on a tactical level, with ...
The Fourth World is an extension of the three-world model, used variably to refer to Sub-populations socially excluded from global society , such as uncontacted peoples ; Hunter-gatherer , nomadic , pastoral , and some subsistence farming peoples living beyond the modern industrial norm.
The "lost" generation, 1930–1970, mid-20th-century Mormons who wrote for a national audience and lost close ties to their church; The lost generation, African-American children growing up in Prince Edward County, Virginia from 1959 to 1964
A generation of innocent young men, their heads full of high abstractions like Honour, Glory and England, went off to war to make the world safe for democracy. They were slaughtered in stupid battles planned by stupid generals.