postwar era
After the fighting
The postwar era is the period following a war, especially World War II.
The phrase typically refers to the years from 1945 through the 1950s or early 1960s, marked by reconstruction, economic growth, and shifting geopolitical alignments: the postwar era of American prosperity, postwar era suburbs.
Context usually clarifies which war is meant.
- Non-Aligned MovementNeutral nations' diplomatic group
- DecolonizationEnding foreign imperial rule
- ModernismBreak from traditional forms
- Berlin AirliftAllied supply mission, 1948
- Nuremberg TrialsPostwar tribunal for Nazi leaders
Marshall Plan · Iron Curtain · United Nations · world order · Hiroshima · Existentialism · Keynesian economics · NATO · Bretton Woods system · economic miracle · Potsdam Conference · Abstract Expressionism · Warsaw Pact · displaced persons · victory gardens · Beat Generation · GI Bill · Levittown
- historyancient civilizations, past events, historian, epochs, epoch
- erasepoch, age, bronze age, period, Renaissance Italy
- historical erasStone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Middle Ages, Renaissance
- time periodsday, year, month, week, hour
- Nordic HistoryViking Age, Viking raids, longships, runestones, sagas
- Austrian HistoryHabsburg, Habsburgs, Austrian Empire, Austria-Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire
postwar erawartime
Period of armed conflict
war years · antebellum era · prewar · interwar period · bellum
postwar erawartime
Period of armed conflict
war footing · theater of war · state of war · belligerency · total war