Baby boomers
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Baby boomers, often shortened to boomers, are the demographic cohort preceded by the Silent Generation and followed by Generation X. The generation is often defined as people born from 1946 to 1964. T
Two Dutch children playing with toys (1958): The 1950s and 1960s were an economically prosperous time in the West.
A household refrigerator (Frigidaire) drawn for the Ladies' Home Journal (1948)
About 21 million Volkswagen Beetles were sold, and they are a generational icon of the 1960s and 1970s.
An automotive factory worker with his family, car, and home in 1954
Silent Generation
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The Silent Generation, also known as the Traditionalist Generation or Builders Generation, is a demographic cohort following the Greatest Generation and preceding the baby boomers. The generation is g
Baby boomers
…Baby boomers, often shortened to boomers, are the demographic cohort preceded by the Silent Generation and followed by Generation X. The generation is often defined as people born from 1946 to 1964. These years span the mid-20th-century baby boom that…
Child evacuees in Reading carrying gas masks which were issued to British civilians in 1938 during the Munich Crisis (1940)
Early television, an example of mid-20th century consumer goods
Houses adapted for elderly people in Omagh, Northern Ireland (2010)
46th U.S. president Joe Biden (2021–2025) is a member of the Silent Generation.