The silent generation was raised upon a time of incredible instability while the baby boomers were born in the time of the economic boom.
Explanation:
The silent generation is called so because it never really had a fair chance of establishing its culture the way the future generations did due to the disruption of their lives because of the war which made them do things that they would not otherwise do.
The baby boomers were the next generation that came of age and it was born into a stable world with a booming economy and had a way of expressing themselves in the ways that the previous generation did not.
Churchill used the term "iron curtain" to describe the huge divide that had emerged between Eastern and Western Europe. The term "iron curtain" also referred to the military rule and total control exerted by the Soviet Union in the territories of Eastern Europe.
The U.S. entered World War I because Germany embarked on a deadly gamble. Germany sank many American merchant ships around the British Isles which prompted the American entry into the war.