Gen X grew up entirely after the draft ended, and they came of age around the time of German unification and Glasnost. Cold War I belong to GI, Silents, and Boomers.
Generally true, but from what I've heard tensions really ramped up around the early 80s, and domestically media was really pushing the threat of nuclear annihilation. It's something that seems to have affected early to mid genXers particularly acutely.
The US was losing the Cold War in the 70s. Then Reagan came and was going to really start a nuclear war. It's not surprising that traumatized a lot of children. "The Day After" was in 1983 and scared the daylights out of the nation.
Gen X grew up entirely after the draft ended, and they came of age around the time of German unification and Glasnost. Cold War I belong to GI, Silents, and Boomers.
Generally true, but from what I've heard tensions really ramped up around the early 80s, and domestically media was really pushing the threat of nuclear annihilation. It's something that seems to have affected early to mid genXers particularly acutely.
The US was losing the Cold War in the 70s. Then Reagan came and was going to really start a nuclear war. It's not surprising that traumatized a lot of children. "The Day After" was in 1983 and scared the daylights out of the nation.