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====Relationship to later generations==== This generation faced turmoil with their older [[Baby boomers|baby boomer]] children upon their maturing in the 1960s in the form of the [[Vietnam War]], [[civil rights movement]], [[Watergate scandal]], and a [[Counterculture of the 1960s|generational culture clash]].<ref>{{cite web |title=GI Generation |url=https://www.lifecourse.com/about/method/def/gi-gen.html |website=lifecourse.com |publisher=LifeCourse Associates |access-date=January 4, 2021 |archive-date=January 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210107113336/https://www.lifecourse.com/about/method/def/gi-gen.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Attitudes shaped during World War II clashed with those of the Vietnam era as many struggled to understand the general distrust of the government by the younger generations, while some supported [[anti-war]] protests. The same applied to a lesser extent in the 1950s between the [[Interbellum Generation]] and their [[Silent Generation]] children.<ref>{{cite web |title=The World War II Generation and Vietnam |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/two-days-in-october-world-war-ii-generation-and-vietnam/ |website=PBS.org |access-date=January 4, 2021 |archive-date=January 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210108123538/https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/two-days-in-october-world-war-ii-generation-and-vietnam/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
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