Post-war

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A French family returns to their village, Buron, north-west of Caen, which was completely wrecked during fighting, July 18, 1944.

A post-war period is the interval immediately following the ending of a war and enduring as long as war does not resume. A post-war period can become an interwar period or interbellum when a war between the same parties resumes at a later date (e.g. the period between World War I and World War II). By contrast, a post-war period marks the cessation of conflict entirely.

In Western usage, the post-war era is the period of time since the end of World War II, even though many nations involved in the Second World War have been involved in multiple wars since. It is sometimes used to specify a shorter period after the war but which has now ceased: in some British usage, "post-war" refers to the period from the election of Clement Attlee in 1945 to that of Margaret Thatcher in 1979, the period of the post-war political consensus, while it may also refer to an even shorter period, perhaps ending around the time of Beatlemania.^{[citation needed]}

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