Editing Greatest Generation (section)

====Post-war====
{{Main|Demobilization of United States Armed Forces after World War II|Post–World War II economic expansion}}

Following the war, this generation produced children at an unprecedented level. Over 76 million [[Baby Boomers|babies]] were born between 1946 and 1964.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Pollard |first1=Kelvin |title=Just How Many Baby Boomers Are There? |url=https://www.prb.org/justhowmanybabyboomersarethere/#:~:text=There%20were%20actually%20a%20total,leaving%20some%2065.2%20million%20survivors. |website=prb.org |access-date=January 4, 2021 |date=April 16, 2014 |archive-date=January 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210108064716/https://www.prb.org/justhowmanybabyboomersarethere/#:~:text=There%20were%20actually%20a%20total,leaving%20some%2065.2%20million%20survivors. |url-status=live }}</ref> Subsidized by the [[G.I. Bill]], this generation moved their families into the [[suburbs]] and largely promoted a more conservative mindset as the country faced the challenge of the [[Cold War]], as some were again called to service in the [[Korean War]] alongside the [[Silent Generation]]. The first member of their generation to be elected US president, [[John F. Kennedy]], began a [[Space Race]] against the [[Soviet Union]], and his successor, [[Lyndon B. Johnson]], further promoted a controversial "[[Great Society]]" policy. Research professor of sociology [[Glen Elder (sociologist)|Glen Holl Elder, Jr.]], a prominent figure in the development of [[Life course approach|life course theory]], wrote ''Children of the Great Depression'' (1974), "the first longitudinal study of a Great Depression cohort." Elder followed 167 individuals born in California between 1920 and 1921 and "traced the impact of Depression and wartime experiences from the early years to middle age. Most of these 'children of the Great Depression' fared unusually well in their adult years".<ref>{{cite web |title=About Glen H. Elder, Jr. |url=http://elder.web.unc.edu/about/ |publisher=University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |access-date=March 25, 2019 |archive-date=June 19, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190619193328/http://elder.web.unc.edu/about/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Lives in Changing Times |url=http://elder.web.unc.edu/books/ |publisher=University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |access-date=March 25, 2019 |archive-date=March 25, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190325024319/http://elder.web.unc.edu/books/ |url-status=live }}</ref> They came out of the hardships of the Great Depression "with an ability to know how to survive and make do and solve problems."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Zernike |first1=Kate |title=Generation OMG |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/featured_articles/20090313friday.html |access-date=March 25, 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=March 13, 2009 |archive-date=March 25, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190325024317/https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/featured_articles/20090313friday.html |url-status=live }}</ref>