Roaring Twenties: Culture and Economy · US History

The 'Lost Generation' was a term used to describe:

  1. Soldiers who went missing in action during the First World War
  2. The children of immigrants who forgot their native tongues and customs
  3. The farmers who lost everything in the early 1920s farm recession
  4. American writers disillusioned by the war and rampant materialism
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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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