20th-21st century America

1883-1900

• The Lost Generation was a term originally used to identify a group of American literary expatriates living in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s; it is now used more generally to describe the generation of young people who came of age in the United States during and shortly after World War I. Very few Americans from this generation are currently alive and well .

1901-1924

• The Greatest Generation is the worldwide generation of Allies that served in World War II. This group overlaps with the G.I. Generation, the generation of veterans that fought and won World War II, later to become the Establishment, and the parents of children who would later become the Baby Boomers (1901-1924).

1925-1945

• The Silent Generation was the generation born between the two World Wars, who were too young to join the service when World War II started. Many had fathers who served in World War I.

1946-1964

• The Baby Boomers were the generation born just after World War II, a time that included a 14-year increase in birthrate worldwide. Baby Boomers in their teen and college years were characteristically part of the 1960s counterculture, but later became more conservative, eventually gave birth to Generations X and Y. Most academic and demographic literature uses 1946 and 1964 as the cutoff years of the Baby Boom generation.^[1]

1954-1965

• Generation Jones, first labeled by U.S. social commentator Jonathan Pontell, is the younger portion of the Baby Boomers. Their early life experiences hold more in common with Generation X than with the Boomers.

1964-1979

• Generation X is the generation born between approximately 1964 to 1979, during the time of the Vietnam War, and connected to the pop culture of the 1980s and 1990s they grew up in. Other names used interchangeably with Generation X are 13th Generation and Baby Busters. Most of this generation are children of The Baby Boomers and The Silent Generation. Those born before 1973 spent most of their teen years in the 1980s.^[2]

1981-1984

• Cold Y Generation is a bit of an anomaly in the various periods of generations. Born between 1981 and 1984, this generation gain self-awareness before the Berlin Wall fell, and knew about life before the Cold War ended by their own memories, as well as knew of life before personal computers became mainstream, yet was also able to grow up with Information Age technology. This so-called generation within a generation has societal norms that encompass both Generation X and Generation Y values.

1980-2000

• Millennials, as has become the more common parlance for this generation is also known as Generation Y, the Echo Boom and Generation McGuire although Millennials or Internet Generation is becoming . These are usually the children of Baby Boomers and people in early Gen X. Generation Y connected to the pop culture of the 1990s and the 2000s, growing up with many world-changing events including the rise of mass communication, the Internet, and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The Y Generation is known as a Culture War "battleground" with growing disagreements between conservative and progressive perspectives, and has reached adulthood in the 2000s, thus the name "Millennial" referring to the period of time the generation came of age. 1976-2001 is the widest possible definition commonly cited, but generally speaking this generation starts in the early 1980s and ends in the mid to late 1990s.