The 'Lost Generation' was a term used to describe:
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Correct answer: American writers disillusioned by the war and rampant materialism
Authors like Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald felt that the values of the past were no longer relevant after the horrors of WWI. Their work often critiqued the emptiness and moral decay they perceived in the wealthy society of the 1920s.
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