In what ways can the prosperity of the 1950''s be explained by the Cold War?

In what ways can the prosperity of the 1950''s be explained by the Cold War?

Maybe it was not the outcome of the Cold War itself, but the detail that much of Europe and Japan had been decimated in WWII, their manufacturers were in wrecks and it took time for them to be rebuilt and get to a stage where nations like Japan and Germany were risks to us, not militarily but in the vehicle market and electronics, but that was subsequent on. (Ginsberg 1956)America could trade items ...