As I stated earlier, naming generations really got started with the BOOMERS.
Nobody, but NOBODY called any one "THE SILENT GENERATION" until rather recently and it makes NO sense at all!
The "GREATEST GENERATION" is also a VERY appellation and and comes from a book title; of all things.
There are patterens...wars, the aftermath of war, good times, bad times, and yes, the Great Depression was only one of many previous ones, that occurred; NOT the ONLY one America ever lived through.
The '60s were a bit like the '20s, for example; new, crazy dances, experimental films, less constrictive clothing for women and flamboyant dress for men.
The 1920s were akin to the end of the 1880s and some of the GILDED AGE "GAY NINETIES".
And so on and so forth throughout history.
What are these times akin to? Well, it's difficult to say, because in some respects they are somewhat like the '30s with BUT with a booming economy. Perhaps more like the turn of the 20th century when anarchism and MARXISM became became a problem here.
Labelling the generations was a tool for marketers primarily. They were using ‘Silent Generation’ or something like it long before it filtered out to the public, to identify the cohort between Baby Boomers and our WWII generation parents.
IIRC “the Greatest Generation” was invented by Tom Brokaw to celebrate our aging and dying WWII parents. No one had called them that before.
‘Baby boom’ and ‘Boomers became well known because writers were always using it to describe how our population bulge was affecting schools, housing, medicine, clothing, entertainment, you name it.