PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE STUDENT MOVEMENT OF THE 1960S
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Soldier who fought in WW2
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Person born before WW2
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Person born right after WW2
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Person whose father worked in the defense industry
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Detailed explanation-1: -Baby boomers, often shortened to boomers, are the demographic cohort following the Silent Generation and preceding Generation X. The generation is often defined as people born from 1946 to 1964, during the mid-20th century baby boom .
Detailed explanation-2: -The term “baby boom” is often used to refer specifically to the post–World War II (1946–1964) baby boom in the United States and Europe. In the US the number of annual births exceeded 2 per 100 women (or approximately 1% of the total population size). An estimated 78.3 million Americans were born during this period.
Detailed explanation-3: -Baby boomers are anyone born from 1946 to 1964.
Detailed explanation-4: -Kathleen Casey-Kirschling, the first Baby Boomer, was born at midnight on New Year’s Day, 1946, in Pennsylvania. Casey-Kirschling first achieved some celebrity after she was profiled by Money magazine in late 1985, a few weeks before she and the first Boomers celebrated their 40th birthdays.
Detailed explanation-5: -Overview. Following World War II, the United States experienced a greatly elevated birth rate, adding on average 4.24 million new babies to the population every year between 1946 and 1964.