How did the U.S. economy change after WWII ended, compared to what it had been like during the war? Use specific examples of what people were able to have and do, and what it must have felt like after the scarcity of their wartime experience.

How did the U.S. economy change after WWII ended, compared to what it had been like during the war? Use specific examples of what people were able to have and do, and what it must have felt like after the scarcity of their wartime experience.

• · Respond to your classmates’ answers by considering the following points:

o Explain how your classmates’ examples might have been experienced differently by

people who had fought abroad and people who had stayed in the United States

during the war.

o Explain how your classmates’ examples might have been experienced differently by

people who had enjoyed luxuries before the war and people who found them to be a

new experience.