"Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller reflects the many issues the postwar United States was facing in the late 1940s when it was written. Death of a Salesman was written and published in 1949, when the United States was booming with new economic capabilities and newfound power, resulting in a golden age despite growing tensions related to the threat of Communist invasion. Racial violence and growing questions regarding the illusory American Dream that was proving to be very different from what our founding fathers had originally idealized. Around the time “Death of a Salesman” was created, the post-war United States was undergoing a metamorphosis into a new era of prosperity, communist paranoia, and social/philosophical change. World War II had left the United States in an economic nightmare, but its resilient nature allowed for a hasty return to glory. The United States entered the late 1940s as the strongest, most stable, and most powerful economy in the world (Wikipedia). Trade surpluses and business booms swept the country as the nation began a new period of economic miracle. The decisive factors in this context were record trade surpluses and rising real income and investment in foreign businesses. Rising productivity and falling unemployment have allowed the nation to evoke a time when trust in business and government reigned supreme. in business and government they grew dramatically, as large industrial corporations accounted for large portions of national income. However, the Yalta Conference made the USSR the second superpower after the fall of Nazi Germany in 1945 (The American Pageant). The communist machine has exerted monstrous influence over countless countries and possible allies of the democratic United States. Such nations close to the incredible Soviet-led nation quickly succumbed to its enormous size and sheer military might. The result of this was a terrifying domestic attack on the United States by alleged communist enthusiasts. Led by the borderline insane and brainwashed Joseph McCarthy, the Red Scare during the 1950s led to a new concept of warfare dictated by the prolonged Cold War (Wikipeida).