post-war generation
Born after conflict
A post-war generation is the cohort born or coming of age in the years following a major conflict, shaped by its aftermath.
Without qualification, the term usually refers to those born after World War II—the baby boomers in the United States and similar cohorts elsewhere: The post-war generation grew up amid unprecedented prosperity.
The phrase can apply to any war's aftermath when context makes clear which conflict is meant.
- baby boomers1946-1964 birth cohort
- rebuildingConstructing anew after destruction
- rationingLimiting distribution during scarcity
- austerityEnforced economic stringency
- optimismTendency to expect good
suburbia · nuclear family · bread winner · station wagon · prosperity · white picket fence · Cold War · atomic age · homecoming · welcome home · GI Bill · reconstruction · trauma · resilience · nostalgia · conformity · television · rock and roll
- generationsbaby boomers, millennials, Gen Z, Gen X, baby boomer
- baby boomersbaby boomers, retirees, retirement age, Medicare recipients, civil rights era
post-war generationveterans
Former armed forces members
war children · soldiers · war refugees · Holocaust survivors
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