The Greatest Generation is a term used to describe those US citizens who fought in World War II, as well as those who kept the home front intact during it. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Home front is the informal term commonly used to describe the Civilian populace of the Nation at War as an active support
Some of those who survived the war then went on to build and rebuild the United States' industries in the years following the war.
In the theory of Howe and Strauss, the term means those born in the United States from about 1901 through 1924, and who form the second half of that theory's G. Strauss and Howe ( William Strauss and Neil Howe) are authors and speakers known for their theories about a recurrent cycle of Generations in history The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Year 1901 ( MCMI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Year 1924 ( MCMXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. I. Generation. "Generations Baby Boomers their Parents & their Children" is a 1997 book by Hugh Mackay describing three Australian generations.
Broadcast journalist Tom Brokaw wrote of them in his 1998 book, The Greatest Generation. Thomas John "Tom" Brokaw (born February 6, 1940) is an American Television Journalist and Author, and He wrote, "this is the greatest generation any society has produced. " He argued that the soldiers fought not for the fame and recognition, but because it was the right thing to do.
US presidents born in this generation were George H. W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy. George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12 1924 served as the forty-first President of the United States from 1989 to 1993 Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr (July 14 1913 December 26 2006 was the thirty-eighth President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977 and the fortieth Vice President John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29 1917&ndashNovember 22 1963 often referred to by his initials JFK, was the thirty-fifth President of
Sources
- The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw (1998)
- The Great Boom 1950-2000: How a Generation of Americans Created the World's Most Prosperous Society by Robert Sobel
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