post-war America
Suburbs and prosperity
Post-war America refers to the United States in the period following World War II, roughly 1945 through the 1960s.
The era is associated with economic prosperity, suburban expansion, baby boom demographics, and Cold War anxiety: Post-war America saw unprecedented growth in homeownership.
The term evokes both nostalgic images of stability and critiques of conformity and racial segregation.
- GI BillVeteran education benefit
- baby boomPeriod of high births
- white picket fenceTraditional property divider
- McCarthyismPolitically-motivated accusation without evidence
- Korean War1950s peninsula conflict
nuclear power · Beat Generation · suburbanization · station wagon · drive-in theater · Levittown · rock 'n' roll · Eisenhower · containment policy · desegregation · Brown v. Board of Education · abstract expressionism · polio vaccine · transistor radios · NATO · military industrial complex · feminist movement · Stonewall riots