When someone thinks of a decade. (WW2, war, bomb, general)
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From a person alive from that decade or a teen that wasn't alive that time, what
events, movies, or music do you think comes up in their head? Here is my list.
60's: Vietnam War, JFK assassination, Martin Luther King"I have a dream" speech, and space race.
70's: Watergate.
80's: Berlin Wall comes down AIDS.
90's: Clinton scandal, Princess Diana dies, World Trade Center bombing, and Okahoma City bombing.
For me the 80's is the decade when it became obvious that the U.S. had changed so much that it was a country I hardly recognized. I think of the post WW II U.S. as being either Pre-80's or Post 80's.
When I think of the 60's, I see glass. Broken glass in the streets and on the sidewalls. I would walk to the corner store and pick up 5 or 6 unbroken pop bottles for the deposit.
70's - rainbow colored shirts, custom vans and gas lines
80's - cocaine culture
90's - lot of work
00's - bush
30's - Great Depression
40's - WW2 and the rise of the US
50s - Happy Days
60s - a decade of protest - counter-culture - the true beginning of socialism in the US - one of the worst
70s - polyester, long hair, really bad clothing styles, political turmoil, one of the worst economic times, but some really good music
80s - MTV, strong President, bright colored clothes - rebound of the economy
90s - grunge - the Internet - Clinton scandals
00s - 9/11 - splitting of the US politically
For me the 80's is the decade when it became obvious that the U.S. had changed so much that it was a country I hardly recognized. I think of the post WW II U.S. as being either Pre-80's or Post 80's.
I see that decade as being the 60s. When counter-culture movements took hold, JFK was assassinated, drugs and psychedelia, the Vietnam war. I think of the 60s as the decade that really started to split our country in two.
I always find it interesting when people point to the events of a certain time period and say THERE...that's the time when the country changed and we split in two politically, socially, etc.
I always find it interesting, because with the exception of a few periods of general unification (most recently WW2 and the immediate post-decade or so) America has always been essentially divided in two with many shades of grey in between.
40s - War brings prosperity, women in the work place, war deaths, Frank Sinatra.
50s - Baby Boomer babies, dishwashers, Korea, polio vaccine, carefree time, TV begins to override the radio, children's programming on the telly, Red scare.
60s - Folk music, Camelot, drugs, free love, my fiance is killed in Vietnam.
70s - Acid rock, good pop music, political scams, Boomers graduate from college with odd majors (like mine) and enter the job market, gasoline rationing.
80s - Boomers enter management, personal computers, huge mobile phones, polarizing politics, oil scare, AIDS rears its ugly head.
90s - Boomers' kids are now in college with very status quo majors, Boomers become grandparents and start thinking about retirement.
00s - 9/11
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