post-war era
Peace following conflict
The post-war era is the period following a major war, typically referring to the years after World War II (1945 onward).
It suggests reconstruction, social transformation, and shifting political alignments: post-war economic boom, post-war architecture.
The term can apply to any conflict's aftermath but defaults to WWII without further specification.
- Cold WarProlonged East-West standoff
- red scareMass anti-communist hysteria
- Marshall PlanPostwar American economic assistance
- United NationsInternational governmental organization
- World War IISecond global military conflict
NATO · Hiroshima · demobilization · Decolonization · Korean War · baby boom · Nuremberg Trials · victory parade · Berlin Wall · space race · Iron Curtain · Levittown · suburban sprawl · picket fence · Warsaw Pact · Vietnam War · Silent Generation · Democracy
- historical erasStone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Middle Ages, Renaissance
- time periodsday, year, month, week, hour
- German HistoryNazi, Prussia, Saxony, Reichstag, Napoleonic Wars
- Korean historyJoseon dynasty, Three Kingdoms, DMZ, demilitarized zone, Korean DMZ
- Philippine historypresidents, Spanish rule, vice president, revolutionaries, Imelda
- Spanish LiteratureDon Quixote, Don Quijote, Cervantes, Miguel de Cervantes, El Cid
societal condition
post-war erawartime
Period of armed conflict
state of war · war footing · occupation period · siege mentality