King retired as prime minister and leader of the Liberal Party in 1948, and the mantle of leadership passed to Louis Stephen Saint Laurent, a Quebec lawyer whom King had brought into the government in 1941. This demographic knowledge was well known to both French and German politicians and planners of the inter-war years, and affected many decisions including the construction of the Maginot Line and the respective decisions by French and German Generals to respectively imagine a defensive or offensive next war. Early postwar developments Domestic affairs. However a baby bust in Germany was still a substantially greater growth rate than the contemporary baby boom in France, and Germany post-war was increasing in population at a much greater rate than Franc. The war babies constitute a unique generation not only because they were born during World War II, but because their experiences were different from their elders who endured the Great. German population growth over the same two periods was respectively 59% and 15%, so there is definitely a baby bust in Germany. The 1950s promised an easier existence for many. I tried to research the increase of birthrate and marriage of the US during WW2 (1939-1945), but the result just shows statistics after the war and the baby boom. After World War II ended, many Americans were eager to have children.

Although many people assume that the baby boom happened because peace and. This boom began in 1946, when a record number of babies3.4. (Note that extrapolating from 20 years to 40 years, the post-war 7% translates to a 14.5% rate over 40 years.) The Boom After the war, the birth rate increased dramatically.

French population growth (for the 40 years) from 18 was 8.6%, compared to 7.0% (for the 20 years) from 1919 to 1939. The babies of the Great War, the flu and the original baby boom can be seen from 1921 onwards, working their way through the years and the ages, as a cut in the side of the pyramid followed by.

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