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CLEP US History II

Category - WWI

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The generation of Americans who fought in World War I struggled to recover from the trauma of war and ultimately became known as the:
  1. Lost Generation
  2. Anguished Generation
  3. Compromise Generation
  4. Silent Generation
  5. Beat Generation
Explanation
Answer: A - The Lost Generation struggled to settle and resume lives of normalcy following World War I because of the exceptionally graphic nature of the fighting (for example, the use of mustard gas) and volume of casualties. Disillusionment and searching were recurrent themes throughout Lost Generation culture. Their literary tradition was exceptionally rich and included some of America’s greatest authors, like Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and T.S. Eliot. Hemingway made the name “Lost Generation” part of the popular lexicon after he used it in the epigraph of The Sun Also Rises.
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