Western Civilization II / Unit 18 WC2 1703 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Les Trente Glorieuses: Boom, Baby Boom, Consumers, DNA, Vatican II
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The idea
Thirty glorious years, nineteen forty-five to seventy-five: British real wages up eighty percent, the anchor says. Credit, cars and television made a consumer society; the baby boom made teenagers and rock 'n' roll. DNA in fifty-three, polio vaccines, and Vatican II's vernacular Mass.
In practice
Church attendance near five percent by the seventies.
Where people slip
Figures are the anchor's.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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