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Post by jaydawg89 on Apr 21, 2020 17:44:12 GMT 10
Well, when I look back on the past it seems every decade has seen their fair share of changes. I do remember a similar thread being made on 'Inthe00s' a couple years ago but, ever since then, my opinion has changed a bit. If I had to pick a decade with the most rapid change, I would probably give it to the 1940s due to the second world war, the United Nations, the rapid advancement in technology, the first ever computer, the very start of nuclear power, rise of nuclear warfare, the rise of modern suburbia, modern medication sorta (starting with Penicillin becoming treatment) and so much more reasons. I wonder what others here think is the most changeful decade for the 20th and 21st century?
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Post by broadstreet223 on Apr 22, 2020 1:00:50 GMT 10
The 2000s for sure: 9/11, rise of the internet, social media, first black president, iPhone, etc.
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Post by TheUser98 on Apr 22, 2020 1:05:43 GMT 10
For sure the 1940s shaped the modern world more than any other decade of the 20th century, no question. At first, it might seem as though the 1960s would fit this title more so as this of course gave us the countercultural revolution, but we wouldn’t have had this if it weren’t for WWII, the aftermath of which essentially made possible all the things you listed.
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Post by Telso on Apr 22, 2020 5:21:40 GMT 10
The 1940s very obviously. In fact that decade was such a dramatic turning point that historians put the beginning of the "modern age" in 1945. No other decade really has this distinction.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2020 8:06:47 GMT 10
The obvious answer is 1940s but the fight for second place is more interesting.
In the 1920s you had cars, airplane, radio, flush toilets and electricity becoming mainstream, women getting the right to vote and a sexual revolution to go with it. The urban population of the US surpassed the rural for the first time.
In the 1900s/1910s you get a lot of those things being introduced even if they weren't quite mainstream yet.
In the 1950s you get the post-WW2 scientific boom and many major Civil Rights victories and de segregation. You got television, jet airplanes, and many other inventions I'm sure I'm forgetting. You also get the birth of teenage youth culture for the first time.
In the 1960s the Civil Rights movement reaches its zenith, the femenist movement is given a new lease on life, the new sexual revolution thanks to the Pill, the erosion of the patriarchal single family unit common up to that point.
I would say 1920s was the (second) most changeful, but the 1960s and 1910s come close.
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Post by Captain Nemo on Apr 22, 2020 9:19:29 GMT 10
1. 1940s
2. 1910s
3. 1960s
4. 1920s
5. 1950s
6. 1980s
7. 2000s
8. 1990s
9. 2010s
10. 1970s
11. 1930s
12. 1900s
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