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The Post-War Period Historical Background – multi-faceted Cold War McCarthyism (persecution of communists) Korean War, Vietnam War Civil Rights Movement Counter-culture Movement – political, economical and military achievement It is not hard to find historical causes for this disassociated sensibility in the United States. World War II itself, the rise of anonymity and consumerism in a mass urban society, the protest movements of the 1960s, the decade-long Vietnam conflict, the Cold War, environmental threats -- the catalog of shocks to American culture is long and varied. The change that