The Greatest Generation (1901-1927), American History

[Music] the turn of the 20th century ushered in a Great era in America bringing forth the greatest Generation in the history of the nation commencing from the year 1901 a formidable and resilient generation of American citizens entered into the world they were born at a time in which their nation was experiencing a rapid procession of critical changes including the Great War of 194 14 the great influenza epidemic in 1918 the Great Depression in 1929 and the second world war in 1939 this was the very generation when their youth witnessed America as she emerged victoriously from the devastation of the second world war becoming the world's leading superpower welcome to the greatest Generation it's been hard and in America it's been tough feeling sad it's been hard in America I never thought it get so bad I wish that I had a big jet [Music] play FL by the tears away maybe I'd found a river so wet and drift away all of the pain but it seems there's more to do there's more to love we've yet to find oh yeah it's true May according to American historians the greatest Generation begins in the year 1901 and ends in the year 1927 the children born between these two years are thus considered members of this generation their childhood memories were disrupted by a set of remarkable and tulous events leading all the way up to their early adolesence and adulthood during which period the AIS of global influence shifted away from the Western European Empires and gravitated instead towards America members of this great generation are celebrated for their resilience and courage they are distinguished from their subsequent American Generations by virtue of their unwavering patriotism and their strong moral conviction coupled by an exemplary work ethic that all make them like they used to America's greatest generation is estimated to have numbered in the region of 6 3 million people the earliest documented usage of this term was reportedly used by General James vanfleet who served America during the Korean War he's credited with having been the first person to have coined this term in a speech in which he delivered before the Congress in the year 1953 the men of the eighth Army are a magnificent lot and have always said that they are the greatest generation of Americans we have ever produced this UST title was later popularized by Tom broo in his 1998 book entitled the greatest Generation in which he celebrates and honors the legacy of men and women who came of age when America became the world's leading superpower welcome to the greatest Generation us just because we get around talking about my generation they do look awful talking back before get [Music] olding is the greatest Generation what's a title now many of us know of generational cues and titles I'm Generation Y for example Millennial we have the Boomers we have Generation X we have at the moment the latest generation is Alpha so we're familiar with his names and titles but if you go back to the beginning of the Century the first generation was the greatest generation and this is of course according to an American World perspective but it matters because they are an influence in the world so the greatest generation is where we begin to see a shift in the world in terms of powers dynasties Empires and influence towards the Western Hemisphere and away from the Eastern Hemisphere so effectively what became of us a weak generation was the greatest generation on the other side and this is very important to know because Allah says in the Quran that the days go back and forth some sometimes it's for you and at other times it's against you so there's a pendulum of time whereby we actually sometimes are weak and other times we are strong and so in the 20th century the pendulum went towards the Western World and in particularly America so these figures we're seeing on screen here these are all people of the generation that we just mentioned they are all from the greatest generation and we're going to go through a number of examples of other leaders who are from that generation it's quite an exceptional generation actually because many of the names have shaped the world today we're from that one generation quite interestingly enough a dynamic generation this title of generation the greatest Generation became popular in the 1990s however if you look at uh the marketing schemes or the way sociologists gather information they have various Generations as I've mentioned before you've got generation Alpha which is those who were born from 2010 onwards our children for example Generation Z Generation Y or the Millennials people in the 8S such as myself Generation X and prior that the Baby Boomers then we have above the Baby Boomers the silent generation and before them we have the greatest Generation everything prior to that is considered a Lost Generation right according to the Americans of course so that group of people who are considered the greatest Americans of all time fall within our brackets between 1901 to 1927 and they are special people because they've gone through very important phases in history they've experienced something collectively that most Generations have not experienced in mod in the modern era which makes them a very special breed of people you must have heard before the statement they don't make them like they used to it comes from this generation as in this sort of people don't exist anymore at least according to the American lifestyle so the greatest generation is important for us to understand because it is interesting from a historical perspective as Muslims we do have what we call atat the generations right or the different levels of generations and if you look at's very important book uh alad he talks about dynasties and the cycle of dynasties in terms of generational Evolution or Devolution so if you look at the American Empire as a dynasty it also goes for the evolution of the cycle that any Dynasty goes through and that cycle is determined by the generations and there is a maxim at the bottom here that hard times make for good or strong people for strong men strong men make for good times good times make for weak men and weak men make for bad times so actually Analyze This would analyze America today there a dynasty and this Dynasty goes through generational Cycles the first generation of is always the greatest it's always the greatest Generation but then it's followed by Generations following that which are not so great until eventually the dynasty collapses and if you do the calculations according to the American Dynasty is actually on its way down so very interesting when I came across this greatest Generation I thought well it falls within the right bracket because they are the generation that actually were alive when am America became a superpower they were the generation alive at that time and there were young people when America became a leading power so they were in fact fifth the description ofun is the greatest Generation but how long would it take for them to actually become or for the dynasty to actually go obsolete it's quite interesting the fact that the American Dynasty the American world has literally followed the cyclical stages Outland almost to the dot because he gives you a certain number of years that he says by this amount of years the dynasty should collapse if be compared to uh the greater generation to what we're seeing today it's not that far off so we're going to go through the cycle of right now and we're going to analyze that welcome to history Yun the world's leading online learning platform specializing in Islamic history discover the history Yun mobile app and participate in regular live and interactive seminars and tune in directly from your handset from anywhere in the world enjoy instant access to a growing catalog of on demand streaming content exclusive to the platform accessible from a variety of devices including desktops tablets and cell 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