WWIII in 1950s, the "hippie" generation?

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Let's say the US fights a mostly non-nuclear WWIII in the mid 1950s, and wins, would there still be a hippie generation and counterculture?
 
If one belongs to the school of thought that the hippie counterculter movement was encouraged and organized by soviet plants and subversive communism, then maybe it would be avoided.

Another way to look at it is if America rids itself of the Sovet threat early, there would be no red scare, people probably wouldn't be so quick to deamonize communism, and socialism in general. Although there might be a counterculture movement that embraces it, it may be low key and not acute, as some socialists may even be able to make their way into American politics.

Although at this point in her history the US would be the only world superpower and anxious to maintain would probably continue smaller wars against colonial targets for decades to come. This also, I would imagine, would have an affect.
 

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The hippie generation was a direct result of the baby boom, relative world political stability and economic prosperity of the post war 1950s.

WWIII would have cancelled out the economic boom and the 1950s generation might have grew up in the sort of dangerous world the WWII did.
 
There would have been a counterculture, because you had a baby boom generation with a vastly different set of tastes for music, dress, etc. The young were ready to exploit all the music/recording technology that recently emerged while their parents, WWII veterans, held to their generation's tastes.

Keep in mind the number of people who actually practiced communal living, wasted themselves on drugs and became "hippies" was very small compared to the generation who adopted the music, symbolism and to some extent, the lack of dress codes.
 
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