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This 5-page paper, based on the writings of Hobsbaum and Scott, attempts to answer why the period following World War II ushered in the greatest of peace and prosperity. Topics include discussion of Fordism and its application to farming, the rise of women in the workforce and the fall of peasantry. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Economies, along with buildings, were destroyed, governments were floundering and people were trying to make order out of chaos. During this period, the United States and the Soviet Union spent
much of their respective times doing everything from dividing up land (as in the case of Germany and Eastern Europe) to building their own arms to determine which country was
the strongest superpower. The questions well try to answer here, therefore, are, first of all, what types of political/economic arrangements following 1945 moved the world and its systems into unprecedented
prosperity, peace and national state legitimacy? What were the social transformations of the period? And, on the other side of the coin, why did gigantic bureaucratic schemes fail in different
instances? To answer these questions, it would be helpful to focus on the following topics. The peace of the Cold War
The "Cold War" was named "cold" for many reasons -- one of them being that it never escalated into full-scale fighting. Part of
this could be attributed to the Marshall Plan, which outlined containment of communism. In other words, whenever the Soviets were on the move, the United States was there to counter
them. But the threat of nuclear annihilation itself was enough of a deterrence on both sides of the ocean. But Hobsbaum points
out that despite the almost daily threat of nuclear attacks, there was little prospect of war actually breaking out, partly because of mutually assured destruction and partly because following World
War II, the world was evenly divided, in terms of balance of power. Noted Hobsbaum: "The U.S.S.R. controlled . . . one part of the globe (while) . . .
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