Postwar United States Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
period of United States history
About Postwar United States
—Martin Luther King, Jr. WhileWorld War II in Europeended in May 1945 andin Japanin August the same year, much of Europe and East Asia was devastated, with the United States and theSoviet Unionremaining as major rivals. TheCold Warlasted until the Soviet Union was dissolved at the end of 1991, with "proxy wars" such as theKorean Warand theVietnam Waror the 1979 Soviet invasion ofAfghanistan, subsequent U.S. aid to the Mujahedin, andongoing tension in Europe. Perhaps one of the most substantial changes in the Postwar period was that most white Americans discarded their historical ethnic identities (e.g. Irish-American, Italian-American, or Polish-American), and now largely identify as simply "American". From the 1950s and onwards, America became the promised land of the automobile. Motorcar
Postwar United States Travel Guide Sections
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