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This 8 page paper discusses the decades of the 1960s and 1980s, the changes that occurred during those times, and argues that the 1980s rolled back the progress that had been made 20 years earlier, in large part paving the way for the bitterness and dissention that marks America today. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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one in the 1980s. The first freed America from Britain; the second saw sweeping social change begin to take shape; and the third, probably just as sweeping, saw those changes
blocked and hopes for a brighter future dashed. This paper considers the decades of the 1960s and 1980s, the changes that occurred during those times, and argues that the 1980s
rolled back the progress that had been made 20 years earlier, in large part paving the way for the bitterness and dissention that marks America today. Revolutions in Society: the
1960s and the 1980s There can be no doubt that the 1960s were a revolutionary period in American history. There has never been anything quite like it before or since:
the country entered a period of turmoil that also, inexplicably, was fueled by hope-hope for a better life for all Americans, largely embodied in one man, John F. Kennedy. When
JFK was assassinated, many dreams died with him. But the decade in which he served as president still remains one that profoundly changed the nation. In his book Berkeley at
War, Rorabaugh outlines some of the developments that made the 1960s an incredible period. He also points out, rightly, that many of the things that came to fruition in the
1960s had their beginnings in the 1950s; the Civil Rights struggle, for instance, goes back to the early 1950s and such events as the Montgomery bus boycott, but we tend
to associate it with the 1960s because that was when it suddenly burst onto national consciousness. It was also in the 1960s that President Kennedy began to back civil rights
legislation, and it was President Lyndon Johnson who signed the Civil Rights Act into law in 1964. We put a man on the Moon for the first time in
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