If you don’t learn from the past’s mistakes they will keep repeating in the present and the future. A lot changes from generation to generation. Two generations that have had a great impact on America are the greatest generation from 1910-1925, and generation X from 1975-1995. Generation X was the generation of people that were born between the years 1975-1995. This was an inordinately eventful time. Several of the things that happened in this time period shaped the great nation of America into what it is now. “15 influential events that shaped Generation X” by Robert Tanner, The fall of the Berlin Wall, The Challenger disaster, Jonestown mass suicide. The Jonestown mass suicide was a tempestuous event. Jim Jones was a charismatic churchman
