50 Years of Progress: Advances in Society, the Economy and in Technology <p> These five decades are what many express as the most progressive and innovative 50 years in our nation's history. We as a nation went from fighting a World War and having segregation to seeing the end of the Cold War, social acceptance and technological advances that were nothing more than science fiction story content to previous generations. This fun and fascinating pop-culture time capsule features fascinating and historical highlights of the 1940s through the 1980s.