post-war boom
Peacetime economic expansion
Post-war boom describes a period of rapid economic growth following a major war, especially the expansion in Western economies after World War II.
The combination of pent-up consumer demand, government spending, and technological advances typically drives such growth: The post-war boom transformed American suburbs.
Housing prices soared during the post-war boom.
- entrepreneurshipCreating and managing ventures
- prosperityGood fortune, success
- victory gardensCivilian wartime food plots
- LevittownPlanned suburban community, postwar
- tract housingStandardized residential development
white picket fence · expansion · consumerism · GI Bill · industrialization · Marshall Plan · medical breakthroughs · suburbanization · capital investment · Bretton Woods system · GDP growth · infrastructure projects · station wagons · new car smell · education access · reconstruction efforts · economic growth · inflation
- Australian HistoryCaptain Cook, Commonwealth, federation, explorers, Liberal Party
- higher educationuniversity, college, degree, diploma, graduate school
- JapanTokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Mount Fuji, Hokkaido
- New BrunswickFredericton, Saint John, Acadians, bilingualism, provincial politics
- Economic ErasGreat Depression, Industrial Revolution, Gilded Age, Roaring Twenties, Great Recession
- Oil Regionsoil discovery, oil industry, oil refineries, oil rigs, oil sands
post-war boomdepression
Prolonged low state
economic depression · Great Depression · recession · economic collapse · bust
post-war boomwartime economy
Production system during armed conflict
wartime rationing · war economy · wartime mobilization · Great Depression era · war footing