What, if anything, is surprising about the post-war economic recovery of Europe? In the immediate period after V.E Day there was a realization by all sides of the conflict that the Versailles Peace Treaty of 1919 had itself been one of the main catalysts to the Second World War. This meant that a new approach would need to be taken to reconstruct Europe and it would need to do so with a broader view of …showed first 75 words of 1520 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1520 total…scale of destruction the Second World War wrought was so huge. However this was not the first time that Europe had needed to rebuild itself and governments had come to realise that they should forsake economics at their own peril. BIBLIOGRAPHY. Walter Laqueur; Europe in Our Time: a history, 1945-1992 (Penguin, 1993) Derek Urwin; A Political History of Western Europe Since 1945 5th edition (Longman, 1997) Anthony Sutcliff; An Economic and Social History of Western Europe since 1945 (Longman, 1996).