# Smallest gap (years) in cultural change?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smallest-gap-years-in-cultural-change/922521>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 8, 2020, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smallest-gap-years-in-cultural-change/922521 "2020-10-08T21:22:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smallest-gap-years-in-cultural-change/922521/1 "2020-10-08T21:22:18Z")

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It strikes me that the societal shifts in the 3 years between 1963 and 1966 (in the U.S.) might be the largest cultural change in a small amount of time since this country was founded. Any other contenders?

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**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smallest-gap-years-in-cultural-change/922521/2 "2020-10-08T21:34:49Z")

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Perhaps, 1919-1922. The end of WWI, Prohibition, and women’s suffrage sparked radical changes in music, fashion, literature, cinema, and sexual mores.

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smallest-gap-years-in-cultural-change/922521/3 "2020-10-08T21:49:31Z")

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There’s a lot more to culture than politics, but it seems like between 2015 (late Obama) & 2018 (mid-Trump) we entered a whole new society.

A similar argument could be made for the time from immediately pre-Crash of 1929 to 3 years later in the midst of the Great Depression. Culture is also far more than economics, but a lot of people were leading profoundly unexpected lives by mid 1932. And considering new ideas about how to operate the culture in response.