The Post-WWII Period

Ever since I was young history has always been a huge part of my life. Some of my favorite films being about WWII. Inglorious Bastards and Saving Private Ryan to name a couple. No period though has had the biggest impact on me personally than the Renaissance: a time of cultural and political revolution following the fall of the Roman empire. New arts, sciences, architecture, and writings paving the way towards our modern social climate. Creativity and expression had a much higher place in thought compared to the age of Antiquity. Individuals have leisure time to enjoy themselves; lives not solely based upon survival. This time is where I would go with my magic golden ticket. I would travel back to the middle ages.

What have been the similarities and the differences regarding immigration between the 1880s-1924 and the post-World War II era until 1964? This will be the main question toward which my essay will be about. To answer this question I will highlight the main characteristics of these two period and compare different institutions, organizations, and legislations around immigration during these two periods. Then I will conclude by pointing out the main similitudes and the differences between these two periods.

The end of World War II was not just the end of war, but also the beginning of a new nation and era in the United States. The war was not all great to those that returned; the most common problem during this time was the return of American vets to their country. Many mans returned to their hometowns and newly developed cities to finally settle down and begin a family. Many of them were soldiers and prewar students, but they didn’t have a set place within the post-war society, and this created stress and struggled. The veteran return from war created a population and housing boom created by the benefits that each had from the GI bill. The post-war economic demand and the expanding of the Civil Rights movement led to many conflicts and discrimination in housing, education, and jobs. The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) created policies that reinforced forms of segregation, and regularly denied low-interest loans to non-whites.

Final Exam: Between the beginning of World War II and the present decade, the United States underwent significant reform through key legislative acts, which addressed race relations, poverty, and gender. Explain these different categories of reform, their early proponents, their evolution into legislation, and whether or not this legislation truly addressed the issues.

World War II brought several changes to the world and specifically America. It not only changed the world map but also set impact on the behaviours. WWII played a major role in building turning points during different periods. Before WWII, African Americans were not offered equal rights in the community. It was considered an impossible thing that African could ever do a white collar or even a blue collar job. However, soon after the WWII, there came a turning point in the lives of African American with the Civil Rights Act in 1964.

The second World War left Europe in disarray after countless bombs and bullets had gone off across the continent. Cities everywhere were annihilated to rubble and left with empty streets. European countries were in need of help after so many years of fighting. There was no infrastructure to for these countries to grow upon. Similarly, there was no money for reconstruction and there were no clear ways of organizing fiscal reconstruction. The world needed to convene to help these countries return to the now amicable Europe. In order for reconstruction of these countries, there needs to be a restructuring of fiscal policies, available currency, violence prevention and the actual construction itself. In the post World War II era, the United States of America

Kurt Vonnegut's Galapagos was written one million years ahead of the year 1986 AD. In this book, Vonnegut argues that the ultimate effect of humanity's sociological problems with technology is that man's intelligence will be the downfall and destruction of the human race. The essential point made by Vonnegut in this work is that the "great big brains" of humanity drives people to go further into technology and create new weapons that will lead to the demolition of man kind; Vonnegut disagreed against virtually every technological development (made by “big brains”).

A generation can be defined as the period, cohort or age of a group of people. Age is seen as the age that the persons were when particular transitions or events in life take place. Period can be defined as the overall experience of a person’s lifetime. Lastly, cohort can be seen as the overall grouping of people who have shared events during their formative years that more than likely contribute to like-minded behavior throughout the duration of their lives. There are currently four generations in United States society: Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, Generation X and The Millennials. The silent generation was born between the years of 1930 and 1945. Significant events during this time period include but are not limited to World War II and the Great Depression. The baby boomer generation was born between the years of 1946 and 1964. Significant events for this generation include the substantial growth of the middle class as well as economic prosperity. Generation X is born in the time period of 1965-1979, this generation was brought together by the big energy issue as well as the Vietnam War. Lastly the final generation that is currently in the workforce are the Millennials. This generation was born between the years 1980 and 2001, this group is brought together by the 9/11 terrorist attacks as well as the internet

In the 1930s to the early 1940s, there was WWII. Many people, Jews, Germans, and other kinds of people, had to go into hiding. Some had to live under very serious conditions, and some lived under very good conditions. This essay will talk about what you would do if you had to go into hiding and had to prepare. The topics of this essay will be about what kind of equipment you would have to make a safe place if you were to hide, what you would need for hiding, and what you would have to worry about.

Is it possible to know what Americans thought of World War II, if they believed that the war was a just war or whether they did not agree for what the United States was fighting for? The historian Studs Terkel believes he knows this answer and that Americans saw themselves as liberators of an oppressed world fighting for the just war which can be concluded from his famous volume, The Good War. Of course one person’s beliefs should not be believed as easily just by reading a book. A person should base their opinions on something much more analytical than that. In order to decide whether some Americans actually thought that World War II was a just war, a thorough analysis should be done of American life looking at all the facts found. Beginning with American experience before the war then analyzing the experience of the war and the home-front itself and finally ending with the analysis of America after World War II a conclusion can be made regarding the American point of view.

Children of post war America are every one of those conceived in the United States somewhere around 1946 and 1964. As outlined in Figure 1, in the post–World War II period the General

Since 1918, the US is characterized by its isolationist stance towards international affairs and protecting American economic interests. However, considering its economic and social superiority, the US took advantage to try and diffuse its economic model and promote capitalism through global diplomacy throughout the world, which lead to free trade and open markets established with other nation-states. Consequently, it became the reference country, in phase 2, to all the other nations in terms of power. However, due to America’s role in the Allied victory and its economic and financial might,President Woodrow Wilson was in charge of dictating the terms of the settlement post World War 1. He tried to use its increased power in order to reorganize

In the 1950's the number of people living in the suburbs came to actually equal the number of people living in cities. This wave of people was due mainly to the availability of affordable housing; which allowed middle-class Americans to move to an area previously inhabited only by the wealthy. The houses and neighborhoods built in mass numbers on assembly lines came to look identical to each other. As a result of this, a model American life was created. People all around the country began to follow this model, and before they knew it a race to conform had begun. People no longer strove to be different, neither by ethnicity nor religion; they strove to be the same. David Farber, the author of The Age Of Great Dreams,

The world of 1947 through 1991 was a very different than the world that we live in today. During this time many things events took place, including the conclusion of the Second World War and the development of the nuclear arms race. It was in the tumultuous time that the Space Race began. Each side had thought that their side was superior. In fact each side could really say that about themselves, each had their own view. Lifestyles of the American Astronauts and the Russian Cosmonauts differed in the ways that only can be found by comparing the two cultures and upbringings. Control methodology was also a point that these two countries disagreed on when it came to their spacecraft. Rockets used by each side of the Race were developed as time went on. And finally the Space Race came to an end with the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, marking the end of the Apollo program, and reducing tensions felt through the rest of the Cold War.

The end of World War II was not just the end of a war, but also the beginning of a tense and dynamic period that affected society on all levels. This “postwar” period, as it became known, shaped the world, as we know it today; likewise, the period was shaped itself both by the war that had preceded it, and the powerful forces that surrounded it. As the energy of fundamentally different ideologies, Communism and Democracy collided with advances in science such as the nuclear bomb, a dangerous environment ensued that created an atmosphere of paranoia throughout the world and especially, within America.