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  2. Greatest Generation - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Silent Generation - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Strauss–Howe generational theory - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Lost Generation - Wikipedia

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    The first named generation, the term "Lost Generation" is used for the young people who came of age around the time of World War I. In Europe, they are mostly known as the "Generation of 1914", for the year World War I began. In France, they were sometimes called the Génération du feu, the "(gun)fire generation".

  6. List of military tactics - Wikipedia

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    Penetration of the center: This involves exploiting a gap in the enemy line to drive directly to the enemy's command or base.Two ways of accomplishing this are separating enemy forces then using a reserve to exploit the gap (e.g., Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC)) or having fast, elite forces smash at a weak spot (or an area where your elites are at their best in striking power) and using reserves ...

  7. Who exactly is Gen Alpha and Gen Z? A guide to the generation ...

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    Next up is the baby boom generation, born from 1946 to 1964, whose name can be attributed to the spike in births — or “baby boom” — in the U.S. and Europe following World War II.

  8. Second generation - Wikipedia

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    Second generation or variants may refer to: Second generation immigrant. Nisei, one of the second generation of people of Japanese descent in the Americas; Second generation of Chinese leaders, see Generations of Chinese leadership; Second-generation human rights, see Three generations of human rights; People whose parents took part in a ...

  9. Interbellum Generation - Wikipedia

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    Richard Arvin Overton (born in 1906), formerly the oldest living World War II veteran, was a member of this generation. [citation needed]The four Presidents of the United States of the Interbellum Generation were Lyndon B. Johnson (born in 1908), Ronald Reagan (born in 1911), Richard Nixon, and Gerald Ford (both born in 1913).