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In West Germany after World War II, says Reiner Pommerin, "the most intense motive was the longing for a better life, more or less identical with the American dream, which also became a German dream". [103] Cassamagnaghi argues that to women in Italy after 1945, films and magazine stories about American life offered an American Dream.
Over Here: How the G.I. Bill Transformed the American Dream. Harcourt. ISBN 0-15-100710-1. Jennings, Audra. Out of the Horrors of War: Disability Politics in World War II America (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2016). 288 pp. Mettler, Suzanne. Soldiers to citizens: The GI Bill and the making of the greatest generation (Oxford University Press, 2007 ...
Financial stability, homeownership and a comfortable lifestyle capped by a solid retirement defined the "American Dream" after World War II. Discover: How Much Does the Average Middle-Class Person...
The shock of peace: military and economic demobilization after World War II (1983) online; Bennett, Michael J. When Dreams Came True: The GI Bill and the Making of Modern America (Brassey's, 1996). Childers, Thomas. Soldier from the war returning: The greatest generation's troubled homecoming from World War II (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009 ...
Better than the American Century or the Pax Americana, the notion of an American Lebensraum captures the specific and global historical geography of U.S. ascension to power. After World War II, global power would no longer be measured in terms of colonized land or power over territory. Rather, global power was measured in directly economic terms.
American dream is ‘Antithetical to British culture’ Blomfield said the American dream wasn’t a reality that a lot of people in the U.S. get to live, but it was one that a lot of them experience.
In the period, an active foreign policy was pursued to help Western Europe and Asia recover from the devastation of World War II. The Marshall Plan helped Western Europe rebuild from wartime devastation. The main American goal was the Containment of communism. An arms race escalated through increasingly powerful nuclear weapons.
A World War II-era American propaganda poster citing the American way as the source of American effectiveness in the war. American writer and intellectual William Herberg offers the following definition of the American way of life: [1] The American Way of life is individualistic, dynamic, and pragmatic. It affirms the supreme value and dignity ...