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Content: Social Transformation in Europe
Social Transformation in Europe after World War II
Patterns of everyday life and the structure of Western society changed after 
the war, just as much as political and economic recovery had instituted dramatic 
changes. Among them: Changes in Science and Technology: At the end of the war, 
theoretical science and technology, considered more practical were joined 
together. University scientists worked on top secret projects during the war, 
including the development of radar to detect enemy aircraft. Radar was 
particularly valuable to the British in defeating the Germans in the Battle of 
Britain. Other wartime technological developments included the development of 
jet aircraft and electronic computers which could calculate the mathematical 
relationship between a fast moving plane and anti-aircraft shells, so that 
gunners on the ground had a greater probability of shooting down the plane. By far the greatest technological scientific development was the development 
of the Atomic Bomb. Its development was spurred by a letter from Albert Einstein 
to President Franklin Roosevelt, in August, 1939, in which he stated that "it 
may be possible to set up a nuclear reaction in a large mass of uranium… [And 
construct] extremely powerful bombs of a new type. American development was 
spurred by the news that the Nazis were close to developing a "bomb" on their 
own.