It was the Marshal Plan that contributed to a post-war boom in Europe that was not seen after World War I, since the plan injected millions of dollars in the European Economy.
The Marshall Plan was an initiative launched by the US in 1948 to help the recovery of Western European countries after WWII. $ 12 billion were sent to rebuild those countries and to boost their economies by rebuilding factories, infrastructures, civil buildings, etc.
The US had adopted the containment strategy, a foreign affairs approach which focused on stopping the spread of communism worldwide. Therefore, rebuilding Western Europe under the influence of the US was beneficial because the Western European powers would side with the US and act as a barrier for containing communism, that was in fact suceeding on the Eastern regions of the continent.
A direct result of the neolithic revolution is that people began living in permanent settlements, meaning they weren't considered nomads anymore - they stayed and settled in one place.
