My grandmother had her first child in 1946, and her last child in 1963. Fits the boomer range nicely, although, as expected, the culture my youngest uncle grew into was very different from the culture my mother grew into, and it felt that way even to me as a kid.
I’ve long thought we should divide generations not by decades or year numbers, but by the emotional touchpoints that each group had to deal with as kids.
If you interpret that as “national traumas” you can have:
The Assassination Generation (JFK, RFK, MLKjr.)
The Cold War Generation
The Vietnam/Draft/Protests Generation
The Gulf War Generation
The 9/11 Generation
and, of course…
The Pandemic Generation
It certainly makes more sense than the random, pointless groupings currently being used.
Sure, but where do those fall? I’m nearly 49, and Vietnam ended when I was a baby, and the Gulf War didn’t come around until I was 18. 9/11 was when I was 28.
I would say of the things listed, the Cold War was probably the most prominent when I was a child during the 70s and 80s. But I suspect your “Cold War Generation” is probably meant to describe people more like my parents- they were born in the mid-late 1940s, and grew up during the Cold War, with JFK’s assassination happening when my father was 18, and my mother was 15 or so.