Decades That Defined Us

A look at the 1960s, a decade that sees new hope and the beginning of a counterculture that shapes society, including Kennedy, Martin Luther King and the Cold War.

Examines how the 1970s, a decade that included the Watergate scandal, the election of Margaret Thatcher, and changing ideas about the West's place in international affairs, helped shape the modern world.

The 1980s are defined by the rising popularity of computers, the Chernobyl disaster, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and shifting politics around the world.