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While the oldest members of the Interbellum Generation came of age at the close of the 1910s in 1919, the majority reached maturity in the 1920s and the minority had grown up in the initial years of the Great Depression from 1929 to 1932. The "WWII Generation Proper" came of age in either the second half of the 1930s or the early years of the ...
The greatest generation (hero archetype), also known as the G.I. generation and the World War II generation, is the demographic cohort following the lost generation and preceding the silent generation. Strauss and Howe define the cohort as individuals born between 1901 and 1924.
The Silent Generation, also known as the Traditionalist Generation, is the Western demographic cohort following the Greatest Generation and preceding the baby boomers. The generation is generally defined as people born from 1928 to 1945. [1] By this definition and U.S. Census data, there were 23 million Silents in the United States as of 2019. [2]
The children of the Greatest Generation, they are sometimes defined as those born from 1946 to 1964, but I find references in sociological literature to Boomers starting as early as 1944 and ...
The Lost Generation is 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.
The oldest of the Greatest Generation were born in the early 1900s. Some would have been old enough to have lived through two world wars. Others through two global pandemics.
Image credits: Old-time Photos "My generation (Generation X) came along, and we had 'real' cameras and developed prints, but also lived the transition to digital," Ed continued.
The Greatest Generation, also known in American usage as the "G.I. Generation", [39] includes the veterans who fought in World War II. They were born from 1901 to 1927; [40] older G.I.s (or the Interbellum Generation) came of age during the Roaring Twenties, while younger G.I.s came of age during the Great Depression and World War II.