The age cohort consisting of about 78 million adults who experienced events such as the vietnam war, the protest movement, and woodstock is known as:

These are the Baby Boomers. They were so named because they were born in large numbers shortly after the end of World War II, when many men came home from war and bore families in the first years right after they returned. This is the group that introduced many of the modern conveniences that we take for granted.