Which two consecutive decades were the most different?

Question

Which two consecutive decades were the most different and Why?(20s/30s, 30s/40s, 40s/50s, 50s/60s, 60s/70s, 70s/80s, 80s/90s, or 90s/00s?)

Answer 1

It was the 1920s to the 1930s -- on a worldwide basis.

In general, the 20s worldwide saw the recovery from The Great War ... the world was at peace, tired of war. But the Great Depression of the 30s was also worldwide.

Turning to specific regions, U.S. first ... the 20s were an economic boom time -- the Roaring Twenties; the 30s were, again, the Great Depression.

In Europe, the 20s saw recovery from WWI, the high water mark of the League of Nations (which ultimately failed), and Germany not yet a threat to France and the other European nations. Besides the Depression, the 30s saw the rise of Nazism in Germany and the threat of another world war on the horizon. Hitler came to power in the early 30s.

Vladimir Lenin died in the 20s and Stalin emerged as his successor. But he hadn't consolidated his power yet, so from the Russian point of view, the jury was still out regarding communism. In the 30s, the picture became much clearer, and it didn't look good; that's when Stalin's reign of terror went into high gear with the purges and the show trials. The Soviet people lived in fear.

The Showa Emperor, Hirohito, succeeded the Taisho in the mid-20s during a period of liberalism and populist optimism in Japan. The militarists came to power only at the end of the decade. During the 30s, aggressive, expansionist Japan was on a war footing.

Sun Yat-sen and his successor Chiang Kai-shek were trying to consolidate their gains in the wake of the Chinese Revolution of 1911. In the 1920s, their Nationalist party, the Guomindong, monopolized what power there was in China. The nascent Communist Party was still fragmented, and Mao Zedong was still jockeying for position. In the 1930s, especially following the Long March, Mao had become undisputed chairman, holed up in Shaanxi Province. A civil war was postponed for a decade while the Chinese fought the Japanese invaders. The 1930s in China were horrific -- Manchukuo, the Rape of Nanking, the beginning of World War II.

Those are the differences I can think of now. I didn't say anything about Latin America, Africa, or the Middle East (including the Islamic world), but I guess I've said enough.

The 1920s and the 1930s were like day and night (not night and day), all over the world!

Answer 2

From the choices you have given, the 50s were more different from the 60s than any other pair. The generation born in 1945-50 grew up in the 60s with the Beatles, rock and roll, drugs, distinctive clothing and more open sexuality. It is claimed that they had a resigned expectation that the superpowers would soon obliterate the world in a nuclear war. Not surprisingly, then, they had hardly any respect for authority, and were eager to fall for any conspiracy theory which discredited the government - JFK, UFOs, Apollo hoax, Area 51, all gained circulation from this period onwards.

However, the 10s and 20s were even more different from each other. A soldier in World War I could have conversed happily with one from the Napoleonic Wars a hundred years earlier, and each would have understood what the other was going through. In spite of railways, steamships, motor cars, early aeroplanes, electricity, and significant medical advances, most people still had the same sort of world outlook as a century earlier. The 1920s changed that completely, mostly because of the introduction of radio broadcasting which so enormously widened people's idea of community, and also because of aeroplane developments which shrank everybody's perception of the world. There was more change in the twenty years between the wars than in the century before the first one.

Answer 3

a million. 1975 - Reds defeats purple Sox. Epic international series. 2. 1991 - Twins defeat Braves. both communities finished very last in 1990, and interest 7 with Morris going 10 finished innings after dueling with Smoltz into the eighth. 3. 1986 - Mets defeat purple Sox. Clemens and Gooden. Curse of the Bambino. Buckner. the total postseason that three hundred and sixty 5 days replaced into so solid it actual might want to've been Angels-Astros. 4. 1987 - Twins defeat Cardinals. series went all seven video games, and each and each and every time the residing house crew received. It also befell contained in the 2001 international series. 5. 1980 - Phillies defeat Royals. a lifeless ringer for Tug McGraw jumping off the mound after securing Philadelphia's first ever international series after YEARS of being a doormat contained in the NL nonetheless provides me goosebumps. sure, i recognize the Phillies were especially aggressive once Carlton and Schmidt got here to city, yet they were brutal for the most area formerly them.

Answer 4

In my opinion it's the 50s/60s. In the 50's, the world was still recovering from the war - women were entering the work force in droves and loving it and family was still important - lots of kids produced.
as we entered the 60's, those 50's tykes had grown to teens, having pretty much what they wanted and having their own voice - the 60's revolution

Answer 5

Has to be the 50s/60s!!

Think about it -- we went from poodle skirts and drive ins, with girls wondering if they should kiss a boy or not, to sexual revolution, anarchy, drugs, hippies, Janis Joplin and riots in the streets in just a few short years. I can't think of as drastic a change in any other decade in history.

Maybe someone else can give another perspective, but that one is the most tumultuous that I can think of.

Answer 6

I would say 30s to 40s. We went from the dust bowl and the depression in America to an overhaul and boon in America's financial well being.

Also mothers, sisters and daughters' place was in the home before the 1940s and in the 1940s women went to work outside the home to help with the was effort.

Answer 7

50 and 60's

Answer 8

culturally definatley 50s-60s i reckon.
World history though got 2 be teens- 20's- the first world war spelled the beginning end for all of the old empire powers, the decline of imerialism and rise of nation states and modernity(Rise of US as superpower, Russian Revolutions etc)

Answer 9

I go with 50s/60s. 50s were way more conservative...then it was the hippie days

Answer 10

20's 30's

Crash of the stock market at the end of the 20s completely changed attitudes, lifestyles, politics, etc.