Post-war
Following the conflict
Post-war describes the period following a war, especially World War II: post-war reconstruction, the post-war economic boom.
The term implies recovery, rebuilding, or the new order that emerges after conflict ends.
Also spelled postwar.
Her grandparents immigrated to America in the post-war years.
Constructing anew after destruction
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
- Marshall PlanPostwar American economic assistance
- rubbleBroken building fragments
- restorationReturning something to condition
infrastructure · housing · rehabilitation · development · modernization · urban renewal · resettlement · reparations
Period of high births
- veteransFormer armed forces members
- traumaLasting psychological wound
- widowsSurviving female spouses
- orphansChildren whose parents died
rationing · austerity · homecoming · reintegration · memorial · remembrance · generation · survivors
Cold War's political divide
- partitionBarrier separating spaces
- decolonizationEnding imperial control
- superpowersCapabilities beyond human limits
- NATOWestern defense organization
Warsaw Pact · spheres of influence · division · borders · treaties · sovereignty · independence · liberation
Favoring contemporary approaches
- existentialismPhilosophy stressing self-created meaning
- neorealismArt emphasizing contemporary actuality
- abstract expressionismNonrepresentational art emphasizing spontaneous emotion
- literatureBody of written works
cinema · commemoration · monuments · testimony · documentation · archives · photography · journalism
Loud deep sound
- prosperityGood fortune, success
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
- industrializationTransition to factory-based economy
- growthIncrease in size
manufacturing · employment · consumerism · trade · exports · inflation · scarcity · black market
rebuilding
Constructing anew after destruction
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
- Marshall PlanPostwar American economic assistance
- rubbleBroken building fragments
restoration · infrastructure · housing · rehabilitation · development · modernization · urban renewal · resettlement · reparations · aid
baby boom
Period of high births
orphans · rationing · austerity · homecoming · reintegration · memorial · remembrance · generation · survivors · mourning
Iron Curtain
Cold War's political divide
- partitionBarrier separating spaces
- decolonizationEnding imperial control
- superpowersCapabilities beyond human limits
NATO · Warsaw Pact · spheres of influence · division · borders · treaties · sovereignty · independence · liberation · Axis
modernism
Favoring contemporary approaches
- existentialismPhilosophy stressing self-created meaning
- neorealismArt emphasizing contemporary actuality
- abstract expressionismNonrepresentational art emphasizing spontaneous emotion
literature · cinema · commemoration · monuments · testimony · documentation · archives · photography · journalism · narrative
boom
Loud deep sound
- prosperityGood fortune, success
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
- industrializationTransition to factory-based economy
growth · manufacturing · employment · consumerism · trade · exports · inflation · scarcity · black market · currency reform