Question

Which of the following statements accurately characterizes the period of the 1960s and early 1970s?

A) The presidency of Richard Nixon successfully restored the American public’s faith in the integrity of its leaders, thereby ushering in a period of unprecedented productivity in the sixties and early seventies

B) The violence of the fifties, such as race riots and cold war conflicts fought domestically, deterred any American activism on a significant scale and cultivated a wide sense of fear and social indifference across the various classes

C) The forces that contributed to the complacent prosperity of the fifties had ironically contributed to the sense of upheaval and unprecedented counterculture that helped define the sixties and early seventies

D) Because assassinations of major American figures remained unheard of, the sixties and early seventies were decades marked by a widespread sense of calm that made citizens feel secure taking drastic social action

E) The fabric of American society was more unified than ever in the sixties and early seventies, as class distinctions largely disappeared and new technology stimulated the economy and brought many different groups together

Answer 1

The correct response is Option C: The forces that contributed to the complacent prosperity of the fifties had ironically contributed to the sense of upheaval and unprecedented counterculture that helped define the sixties and early seventies.

Step-by-step explanation:

In the 1960s there arose a strong sense of a counterculture, which was an anti-establishment movement that was emerged primarily in parts of Europe and North America from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s. It was influenced by the Civil Rights Movement and its continued pressure for change and also the War in Vietnam helped to fuel opposition to the status quo and the sense that the dominant powers were out for their own interests at the expense of the younger generations. There were also tensions regarding human sexuality, women's rights, as generational divisions over traditional modes of authority. Younger generations experimented with psychoactive drugs and began to question and resist the system.