In Western usage, the phrase post-war era (or postwar era) usually refers to the time since the end of World War II. More broadly, a post-war period (or postwar period) is the interval immediately following the end of a war. A post-war period can become an interwar period or interbellum, when a war between the same parties resumes at a later date (such as the period between World War I and World War II). By contrast, a post-war period marks the cessation of armed conflict entirely.
Post–World War II
Chronology of the post–World War II era
The term "post-war" can have different meanings in different countries and refer to a period determined by local considerations based on the effect of the war there. Some examples of post-war events are (in chronological order)
The Cold War (1947-1991)
The Cold War is a geopolitical conflict between the United States of America and the Soviet Union and their allies NATO and the Western Bloc. Although both sides did not fight each other directly they have fought proxy wars when they support smaller countries to fight and watch other countries. At the hight of the cold war both superpower have nuclear wepons pointing at each other which almost led to Mutually assured destruction. But thankfully both nations chose harmony over peace by choosing dipllmatic solution rather than milatary.
Korean War (1950-1953)
On June 25, 1950, after years of tension between communist North Korea and democratic South Korea, North Korea coordinated a series of surprise attacks against strategic points between the 38th parallel. Soon Chinese forces on the behalf of North Korea and Nato forces on behalf of South Korea joined the war. After 3 years of advances and retreats nearly five million lives were lost and to this very day there are still border disputes between the two Koreas.
Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968)
In the 1950’s African Americans faced discrimination throughout the United States, especially in the south where many cannot even vote. In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Brown v. Board of Education that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. By the end of the 1950s, fewer than 10 percent of Black children in the South were attending integrated schools.
Vietnam war ( 1955-1975)
Vietnam war is fought between the communist north Vietnam supported by the communist nations and south Vietnam supported by NATO. This war is especially brutal due to North Vietnam adapting to guerrilla fighting and ambush tactics. Vietnam was is one of the first wars to be broadcast to public television. Many American civilians and soldiers were anti war due to the condition and many think the war is pointless. Finally after many protests the United States slowly withdraw from Vietnam due to public backlash. Without America’s help South Salil Parekh Vietnam slowly fell to the hand of North Vietnam and eventually became one nation. .
In Britain, "post-war":
- culturally, is a term commonly used in the arts and architecture, as it is worldwide. It is primarily and especially before the ascendancy of Pop Art and overlapping "post-modernist" "1960s" movements. Its end is complex due to its archetypes of the 1950s contrasting with leading developments in avant-garde music genres and in pop art, becoming to some audiences mainstream, before 1960. Its movements such as continued functionalism and brutalism were overtaken by the, definitively raucous, counterculture of the 1960s, dominating as the decade wore on. Later resurgences to its stress on quite basic forms were common such as postmodernism and minimalism.
- politically and economically
- at its broadest, is the period from the election of Clement Attlee in 1945 to that of Margaret Thatcher in 1979, the so-called post-war consensus.
- at its narrowest, usually with precise or contextual qualifiers, it is the war's direct aftermath; this prompted social solidarity, unprecedented high capital, particularly inheritance taxation, internationalism, the granting of independence to the British Empire, the founding and endowing of the National Health Service all amid relative austerity particularly rationing. Hardships in capital taxation, and of rationing, faded due to global recovery, technological advances and consumerism enabled and encouraged from the late 1950s such as under the four-successive leader Conservative government, 1957–1964. These set a social norm for a majority of out-of-town journeys in private rather than public transport and private housing preferred over public housing, continued (with minor abatement) through alternating governments of the next two decades.[1][2][3]
Cold War era
Considering the post-war era as equivalent to the Cold War era, post-war sometimes includes the 1980s, putting the end at 26 December 1991, with the Dissolution of the Soviet Union.[4][5] The 1990s and the 21st century are extremely rarely described as part of the post-war era, with the more specific phrase “Post–Cold War era” being commonly used, instead.
See also
- Interwar period
- Pre-war (not a synonym for interwar when referring to World War I)
- Aftermath of the September 11 attacks
- Postbellum
- Reconstruction Era of the U.S.
- Post–Cold War era
References
- ^ "AEC Lorries in the post war years 1945–1979 book | #248690820". Worthpoint.
- ^ "The Post-War Years 1945 – 1960".
- ^ The Post War Economy: 1945–1960
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 22 August 2011. Retrieved 16 June 2011.
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