Social change movements started in the 1960s for multiple reasons. First, since the 1930s the role of the government had became important in Americans’ everyday lives, and people began to look to the government to fix all of their problems. Second, after World War II , the United States started as a global power that fought against with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), this fight was both a political and moral to convince people around the world that Democracy was better to the Communist system by the USSR.
