Define each half decade in three words or less
The Late aughts:
The Early aughts:
The Late 90's:
The Early 90's:
The Late 80's:
The Early 80's:
The Late 70's:
The Early 70's:
The Late 60's:
The Early 60's:
The Late 50's:
The Early 50's:
The Late 40's:
The Early 40's:
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The Late aughts: Twittering toward ecstacy
The Early aughts: Stench of evil
The Late 90's: Clinton saves America
The Early 90's: Boy-bands squelch anger
The Late 80's: Teens pissed again
The Early 80's: Reagan cons America
The Late 70's: Bring the hair
The Early 70's: Teens come home
The Late 60's: Teens visit vietnam
The Early 60's: Which begat teens
The Late 50's: Thus begat drive-ins
The Early 50's: Everybody gets cars
The Late 40's: Got him
The Early 40's: Gotta get Hitler
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The Early aughts: Fear Uncertainty Doubt
The Late 90's: Clinton's Blue Dress
The Early 90's: Savings and Loans
The Late 80's: Saturday Night excess
The Early 80's: Star Wars politicians
The Late 70's: Avocado Fern bars
The Early 70's: Youth shot down
The Late 60's: Youth rises up
The Early 60's: Camelot lives, dies
The Late 50's: Sock Hop Rock
The Early 50's: McCarthy Red Scares
The Late 40's: Cold War begins
The Early 40's: Rosie the Riveter
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The early aughts: Internet domination
The late nineties: Introducing the Internet
The early nineties: Eat my shorts!
The late eighties: Berlin Wall down
The early eighties: Disco kills rock
The late seventies: Pet Rock pointless
The early seventies: Pong amuses millions
The late sixties: Revolution in youth
The early sixties: Beatlemania throughout world
The late fifties: Rock and roll
The early fifties: Beatniks reinvent poetry
The late forties: Nuclear holocaust soon?
The early forties: Another World War
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The Late aughts: concern, hybrid, limitations
The Early aughts: anger, reality, cellular
The Late 90's: paranoia, computer hype
The Early 90's: famine, music bombs
The Late 80's: hyper, crumbled wall
The Early 80's: Micro energetic technology
The Late 70's: turtleneck, mullets, funk
The Early 70's: exploration, peace, Disco
The Late 60's: Hallucinogens, Bell-bottoms
The Early 60's: Exposure, contrast, charm
The Late 50's: Glorified cars, rock
The Early 50's: Conservative, drive-in
The Late 40's: content, American dream
The Early 40's: Rations, hope
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The Early aughts: nine eleven
The Late 90's: Give me money
The Early 90's: Ninetendo
The Late 80's: Confusion
The Early 80's: Technology
The Late 70's: Recession
The Early 70's: Vietnam
The Late 60's: Woodstock
The Early 60's: Politics
The Late 50's: Elvis
The Early 50's: Suburbs
The Late 40's: Build
The Early 40's: Apple Pie
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The Early aughts: Fear, reaction, divisiveness
The Late 90's: irony, media overload
The Early 90's: grunge,
The Late 80's:
The Early 80's: Shiny greedy veneers
The Late 70's: Standstills are hard
The Early 70's: Change is hard
The Late 60's: Let's change everything
The Early 60's: Cool hip mod
The Late 50's: Integration vs. homogeneity
The Early 50's: Cold War suburbs
The Late 40's: victory, now what?
The Early 40's: War, patriotism, manufacturing
This was too much fun so I had to do my book nerd list too:
The cynic's guide to frightening books and the decades that produced or inspired them (Warning: Not all books are frightening for the same reason):
The Late aughts: Stephanie Meyer
The Early aughts: James Frey
The Late 90's: Fight Club
The Early 90's: Angels in America
The Late 80's: American Psycho
The Early 80's: Handmaid's Tale
The Late 70's: Stephen King
The Early 70's: Jonathan Livingston Seagull
The Late 60's: Slaughterhouse Five
The Early 60's: The Bell Jar
The Late 50's: Allen Ginsburg's Howl
The Early 50's: J D Salinger
The Late 40's: Death of Salesman
The Early 40's: Sartre's No Exit
Late 30's: Grapes of Wrath
Early 30's: Brave New World
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The Early aughts: war on terror
The Late 90's: dot-com boom and bust
The Early 90's: World Wide Web
The Late 80's: Cold war over
The Early 80's: Reaganomics boycott Olympics
The Late 70's: oil crisis stagflation
The Early 70's: America quits Vietnam
The Late 60's: man on moon
The Early 60's: Kennedy MLK Beatles
The Late 50's: Cuba's communist government
The Early 50's: Playboy Korean war
The Late 40's: Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Early 40's: World War II
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ha! well played - i laughed out loud at "gotta get hitler / got him" ...
in fact, the bottom-up read of your list makes for a much better time of it.
maybe the rubric of this should start with the early '40s and end with the nows, so it doesn't read like Benjamin Button.