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True, the decades don't correlate exactly with the chronology of the numbers. What we think of as The Sixties is likely '63 through '71 or 2. Same true for all the others, but it's pretty darn close.
But as for either the Berlin Wall or Nine Eleven, I posit that political events ... with the lone exception of WWII ... don't make up the "style" of the decades, at least the styles that I'm thinking of.
Perhaps political events and climates made what we think of as the 50's or 60's or 70's possible ... but it's the pop culture (some of it politically influenced), the music, the fashions, the zeitgeist if you will - - that characterizes these decades and gives them the unique "flavor" we've come to associate them with.
So, I'm gonna have to say meh to the Berlin Wall as characterizing any decade, imol. And I think most of the other things on CP's list were 80's as well. Or reeked of them, at any rate.
But, heh, DURING the 80's I wasn't so sure that decade had a character. And, of course, it infamously did.
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