The term "baby boomers" is used to identify the babies that were born after World War II, in the late 1940s and early 1950s (the most commonly used timeframe is between 1946 and 1964). This time period saw a massive increase in births worldwide, creating a generation that radically altered American society in the following decades. This phenomenon occurred because of the improvement in the economic and political conditions of the country following the Great Depression and World War II.
