Post-War Domestic History 1945-Present
Following World War II, Americans wanted to get back to normal. After four years of total war and ten more before that of crippling economic depression, Americans were ready for a reprieve. Many Americans desired to return to a imagined ideal past where everyone owned his own home and had a comfortable life of economic stability with expectation of continued good times. And given the post-war economic boom combined with the GI Bill, that ideal seemed within reach to many Americans. However, the war had also disrupted the social status quo. The total war effort had demanded women and ethnic minorities take on new roles in the effort to, as the government told them, defeat Nazi and Japanese racialism. With the war over, many Americans were ready for America to fulfill its promises to its own people and extend the American dream not only to white men but to all men and women. Thus, the stage was set for a period of change during which traditional notions of American identity would be challenged on virtually every front.
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