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The Lost Generation is best known as being the cohort that primarily fought in World War I. [53] More than 70 million people were mobilized during the First World War, around 8.5 million of whom were killed and 21 million wounded in the conflict. About 2 million soldiers are believed to have been killed by disease, while individual battles ...
In Britain, this generation came of age, like most of the western world, during a period of economic hardship as a result of the Great Depression. When the war in Europe began, millions of British citizens joined the war effort at home and abroad. Over 6 million members of this generation served in the war, and there were 384,000 casualties. [33]
Millions suffered permanent disabilities. The war gave birth to fascism and Bolshevism and toppled the centuries-old dynasties that had ruled the Ottoman, Habsburg, Russian and German Empires. [1] The optimism of la belle époque was destroyed, and those who had fought in the war were referred to as the Lost Generation. [27]
Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."
Last German Revolution veteran and last German World War I-era veteran, served in the Freikorps during the German Revolution of 1918 and 1919. Lived in Germany. [citation needed] Poland: Józef Kowalski: 2 February 1900: 7 December 2013 (113) Last World War I-era veteran, fought in the Polish Soviet War between 1919-21. [citation needed] Poland ...
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).
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