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Answer:
Fear of great depression
Explanation:
many believed that after world war II and the subsequent drop in military funding it may bring back the times of the great depression. Instead, consumer demand fueled exceptionally strong economic growth in post-world-war II. With the government no longer needing munitions and soldiers the private economy boomed.
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The forging of large, powerful nations into "power-blocs" vying with each other for control, coupled with the emergence of extremely lethal weapons of war (machine guns, bombs, aircraft and nuclear weapons)