Modifies a noun

• reconstruction: London experienced a labor shortage during the years of postwar reconstruction.

• boom: The Nuclear Age of the 1950s and 60s postwar boom rode over such concerns.

• era: The postwar era did not see the end of imperialism.

• period: In practice Britain has opted for a mixture of the two during the postwar period.

• settlement: Britain was in pawn, at the very time that Attlee was fighting to exert some influence on the postwar European settlement.

• decade: In the postwar decade characterized by shortages of all kinds, food security was a dominant political aim.