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=Life and Times 1955-1975=

Overview
This period in American Life rode on the cusp of change. Traditional ideas of society were rejected by the new young population. These people acted with fewer inhibitions, freely living life as they felt like it. War protests by college students were common in the heat of the Vietnam War. The Civil Rights Movement sought to eliminate the injustices that blacks in America had been living with. New technology also incorporated itself into the way people lived. People began to focus on beyond our planet, into space. Nuclear weapons increased fear in a society caught in the middle of a forty year standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union designated the "Cold War". Movies and television shows of the time show this preoccupation. All in all, this era began in a modest, restrained culture only to explode over the years to follow into a lively, free-thinking, and technologically focused culture.

Chapters

 * ​Family Life
 * Technology of the Time
 * Music