Postwar Europe: How to Create the Long Peace

The result of World War One was, ultimately, fascism and World War Two; the result of World War Two was peace. In this video, I look at the conditions that started what some have termed the Long Peace , that led to stability and economic prosperity in Europe unprecedented in history. To what can we attribute this peace? The Marshall Plan? Capitalism? The Welfare State? Something more? What lessons can we draw from the period today? Then & Now is FAN-FUNDED! Support me on Patreon and pledge as little as $1 per video: http://patreon.com/user?u=3517018 Or send me a one-off tip of any amount and help me make more videos: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=JJ76W4CZ2A8J2 Follow me on: Facebook: http://fb.me/thethenandnow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thethenandnow/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/lewlewwaller Sources: Mark Mazower, Dark Continent Tony Judt, PostWar: A History of Europe Since 1945 Difficulty in Explaining Postwar stability, https://www.clevelandfed.org/newsroom-and-events/publications/economic-commentary/economic-commentary-archives/1985-economic-commentaries/ec-19851201-the-difficulty-in-explaining-postwar-stability.aspx Maier, Charles S. 1981. The two postwar eras and the conditions for stability in twentieth-century Western Europe. American Historical Review 86(2): 327-352, http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:4727674 Johnson, Nevil, Constitutionalism in Europe since 1945 in Constituionalism and Democracy Music: Danse Morialta by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1200026 Artist: http://incompetech.com/