Increased birth rates, higher demand for consumer goods, and expansion of suburbs were results of the baby boom that followed World War II. Economic depression was not a result of the baby boom.
One challenge of the baby boom that followed WW2 was strains on healthcare and education systems due to the increase in population. Additionally, there was increased competition for jobs and housing among the growing number of individuals entering the workforce and looking to start families. However, a positive aspect of the baby boom was the economic growth that resulted from the increased consumer demand.
The return of soldiers from WW2
In the US the "baby boom" resulted from the return of many soldiers from WW2 and getting married. This period lasted from 1945 into the early 1960s.
Because men were home from WW2 and there was a baby boom going on.
The Great Depression was a time when few babies were born. Then WW2 came along and there was a baby boom when the soldiers returned home.
WW2.
Sex! Promiscuity! Boardom! Very few people had televisions, very few could afford anything to entertain themselves. It just might have been the end of the War. Troops coming back home were happy to be back alive and with their loved ones, and searching for new loves. People felt safe and happy. Life was good when compared with what they had just gone through. It takes a lot of life reaffirming after seeing so much death and destruction and many babies were the result. == The Baby Boom was actually the period of WW2 and a few years after. I was born in the early 1950's and was not really considered a baby-boomer.
The baby boom was a product of the ending of WW2. Being around mostly men for a long time, when the men came back from war, well, they were ready for some love making. Also, there were no men for the women since they were all at war so when they came back, both sexes were eager and willing. Love making makes babies.
As a result of WW2, Japan lost everything they had gained prior to the US entering the war and were back to the original Japanese islands.
Many attribute the post WW2 boom to Keynesian economics, which is a mixed economy of mostly private, but also public sectors.
The Cold War was a direct result of WW2.
The us joined ww2