post-war
Following the conflict
Post-war describes the period following a war, especially the years after World War II: post-war reconstruction, the post-war economic boom.
The term implies recovery, rebuilding, or the new order that emerges from conflict.
Also spelled postwar.
Period of high births
- Marshall PlanPostwar American economic assistance
- Iron CurtainCold War's political divide
- Truman DoctrinePolicy opposing communist expansion
- NATOWestern defense organization
decolonization · McCarthyism · Berlin Airlift · containment · proxy wars · civil rights · Cuban Missile Crisis · Sputnik
Good fortune, success
- suburbsResidential areas outside cities
- LevittownPlanned suburban community, postwar
- consumerismPreoccupation with acquiring goods
- baby boomPeriod of high births
automobiles · television · GI Bill · middle-class · suburbanization · American Dream · affluence · mass production
Constructing anew after destruction
- infrastructureBasic physical systems
- Marshall PlanPostwar American economic assistance
- rubbleBroken building fragments
- housingDwellings or protective covering
urban planning · restoration · redevelopment · reparations · aid · engineering · architecture · humanitarian relief
Former armed forces members
- traumaLasting psychological wound
- memorialsTributes to the departed
- remembranceAct of holding something in mind
- monumentsStructures commemorating notable achievements
collective memory · oral history · archives · survivors · witnesses · scars · reparations · commemoration
Agreement to cease hostilities
- ceasefireAgreed halt to fighting
- treatyBinding pact between nations
- diplomacyNegotiation between nations
- disarmamentReducing or eliminating weapons
reconciliation · détente · coexistence · neutrality · demilitarization · occupation · United Nations · peacekeeping
baby boom
Period of high births
- Marshall PlanPostwar American economic assistance
- Iron CurtainCold War's political divide
- Truman DoctrinePolicy opposing communist expansion
NATO · decolonization · McCarthyism · Berlin Airlift · containment · proxy wars · civil rights · Cuban Missile Crisis · Sputnik · détente
prosperity
Good fortune, success
- suburbsResidential areas outside cities
- LevittownPlanned suburban community, postwar
- consumerismPreoccupation with acquiring goods
baby boom · automobiles · television · GI Bill · middle-class · suburbanization · American Dream · affluence · mass production · advertising
rebuilding
Constructing anew after destruction
- infrastructureBasic physical systems
- Marshall PlanPostwar American economic assistance
- rubbleBroken building fragments
housing · urban planning · restoration · redevelopment · reparations · aid · engineering · architecture · humanitarian relief · refugees
veterans
Former armed forces members
- traumaLasting psychological wound
- memorialsTributes to the departed
- remembranceAct of holding something in mind
monuments · collective memory · oral history · archives · survivors · witnesses · scars · reparations · commemoration · anniversaries
armistice
Agreement to cease hostilities
- ceasefireAgreed halt to fighting
- treatyBinding pact between nations
- diplomacyNegotiation between nations
disarmament · reconciliation · détente · coexistence · neutrality · demilitarization · occupation · United Nations · peacekeeping · Nuremberg
- Atomic Bombingatomic bomb, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, atomic bombing, Little Boy
- Communist PolandCommunist era, People's Republic, Solidarity, Walesa, state surveillance
- German poetryGoethe, Rilke, George, Claudius, Romantic poetry
- War Endingspeace treaty, armistice, ceasefire agreement, surrender, unconditional surrender
- Cold WarBerlin Wall, Iron Curtain, arms race, Warsaw Pact, Cuban Missile Crisis
- Italian LiteratureDante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Dante Alighieri