From the assigned weekly readings, would you say that these events tended to hasten (quicken) or to delay the progress of the United States? Explain why using three detailed examples from the weekly readings

The Summer of Love and Protest: Transatlantic Counterculture in the 1960s

"The generation gap rose out of the booming economy, affluence, and demographic changes that came from a surge in birthsthe "youth- quake"after World War II. Then, in 1960, the birth control pill was a great enabler that made the sixties possible.18 In 1964, the front edge of the 20 million baby boomers in America turned eighteen years old. These numbers created a vast potential for change."

"Never had so many had it so good. Students enjoyed an affluence that no generation had ever seen before. They had disposable income and made up a consumer market of new proportions. By 1965 teenage Americans were collectively spending $25 billion a year. The parental generation had suffered through Depression and World War II and they were ready to en- joy the good life that a post-scarcity society offered. Suburbs expanded. The number of children expanded. Wealth expanded. Then discontent ex- panded."

"In the 1960s there was a moment when many people believed, without being cynical, that it was still possible to make an all-out assault on the global capitalist system, on patriotic nationalisms everywhere. This patriot- ism was the possessive nationalistic kind that drew lines on the earth, built a wall in Berlin, set up an Iron Curtain between East and West, and made cold and hot wars over natural resources and ideology. Many people began to question the ugly sides of nationalism, began to protest imperialism, and sought to eradicate the entrenched ways of thinking that had brought World War I and World War II and the Cold War and Vietnam and, coming soon to your neighborhoods, World War III. Invoking the will to change, the counterculture insisted that Western leaders, governments and societies were deeply flawed. People needed to stop saluting flags and take time to paint peace signs."