WORLD WAR I
CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WAR
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the victims of the Armenian genocide in World War I.
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soldiers who were unable to recover from World War I.
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the German population that did not return from World War I.
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artists and intellectuals who were disillusioned by World War I.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Answer: D) Artists and intellectuals who were disillusioned by World War I. Explanation: Novelist/poet/playwright Gertrude Stein referred to herself and other writers like her as “The Lost Generation.” World War I and the aftermath of the war is what gave them a feeling of lostness.
Detailed explanation-2: -The term “Lost Generation” became associated with a group of writers and artists with whom Hemingway worked in Paris, France, during the early 1920s. However, the term also refers more broadly to all those who reached adulthood during World War I.
Detailed explanation-3: -Key Takeaways: The Lost Generation Disillusioned by the horrors of war, they rejected the traditions of the older generation. Their struggles were characterized in the works of a group of famous American authors and poets including Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and T. S. Eliot.
Detailed explanation-4: -The meet included the likes of Hemingway, Matisse, Picasso, Pound, Anderson and F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is thanks to Stein and Hemingway that “The Lost Generation” lives on.