The term "flapper" referred to

A) women who joined the air force during the war.

B) modern, single, women who smoked and wore short dresses.

C) women who supported Prohibition by attacking saloons and saloonkeepers.

D) feminists who organized political and action groups.

E) women who publicly debated the merits of the League of Nations.

B) Modern, single, women who smoked and wore short dresses.

Answer: Option (D). All of the above.

Explanation: Flappers was a term used to describe a generation of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts (just at the knee was short for that time period), bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior. Flappers were seen as brash for wearing excessive makeup, drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes in public, driving automobiles, treating sex in a casual manner, and otherwise flouting social and sexual norms.

Many young women wanted to spend their youth enjoying their life and freedom rather than just staying at home and waiting for a man to marry them. Furthermore, World War I reduced the grip of the class system on both sides of the Atlantic, encouraging different classes to mingle and share their sense of freedom. Also Women won the right to vote in the United States, Women wanted to be men's social equals and were faced with the difficult realization of the larger goals of feminism.