• Came of age during the Great Depression and World War II- defining events

  "Good Kid" Reputation

• Beneficiaries for new playgrounds

• Scouting clubs

• Vitamins

• Child labor restrictions - prohibit child employment under the age of 14

  Economy

• Roaring 20's - economic boom

• National debt shrank from $24 billion to $16 billion during the 20's

• Taxes were reduced

  Education

• Sharpest rise in schooling ever recorded

• More teenagers in school than out of school

• Raised as increasingly protected youth

  Attitudes

• Formality - wear suits and ties everywhere

• Uniformity - it is good and normal for everyone to agree, work the same and look the same

• Cooperative - put trust in government, authority and community; civic-minded

• Winners and achievers

• Leaders put public interest over personal gain

• Generation that gave rise to the comic strip Superman

  Generation Firsts

• First teenagers - coined the phrase

• First boy scouts and girl guides

• First astronauts

• First legendary movie stars - Charlie Chaplin

• First political leaders - J. F. K.