How were the 1960s a direct response/reaction to the culture of the 1950s?

The 50's advertised for the American Dream, filled with women who lived domestic lives and men who brought the earnings into the house to provide for wife and children. This created the people who went against these ideas, the counterculture. These people didn't like the standard of living and chose to go against it. This began the movements for change and peace that you saw in the 60's. The long hair, the promiscuous sex, and the experimental drugs.