Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" reflects the many problems facing the postwar United States in the late 1940s, time of its writing. Death of a Salesman was written and published in 1949, when the United States was booming with new economic capabilities and power, resulting in a golden age regardless of the growing tensions of threat of communist invasion. Racial violence and growing problems related to the illusory American dream that was proving very different from the one our founding fathers had initially idealized. At the time "Death of a Salesman" premiered, the postwar United States was undergoing a metamorphosis into a new era of prosperity, communist paranoia, and social/philosophical change. World War II plunged the United States into an economic nightmare. but his resilient nature allowed 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 surplus and booming business engulfed the country as the nation entered a new period of economic miracle. The decisive factors in this regard were record trade surpluses and rising real incomes and investment in foreign businesses. Rising productivity and falling unemployment allowed the nation to conjure up a time when trust in business and government reigned supreme. Economic and governmental activities expanded considerably, with large industrial corporations accounting for a large portion of the national income. Nevertheless, 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. These neighboring nations of the enormous Soviet-led nation quickly succumbed to its gigantic size and military strength. The result was a terrifying internal attack on the United States, carried out by self-styled communist enthusiasts. Led by the brainwashed and borderline insane Joseph McCarthy, the Red Scare during the 1950s led to a new concept of warfare dictated by the long Cold War (Wikipeida).