In the summer of 1945, as World War II drew to a close, the U.S. economy was poised on the edge of an uncertain future. Would it be able to transition from a full-bore war economy to a fulsome and stable peacetime one? Many experts at the time had serious doubts. As it turned ...
Did the generous terms of the GI Bill help mitigate post-World War II PTSD?Thomas E. RicksForeign Policy
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During World War II, producing weapons and supplies for troops fighting abroad became the nation’s top priority. Gasoline, tires, and autos were strictly rationed, so most commuters had few ways to get to work other than public transit. In Baltimore, for example, people could ride a streetc...
After World War II, the United States Congress passed The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, more commonly known as the G.I. Bill. This bill became our country's single largest source of college scholarships. A generation of veterans benefitted from this entitlement which helped to raise...
The political and military barrier that isolated Soviet-controlled countries of Eastern Europe after World War II. Iron Curtain What did George Kennan propose in the Long Telegram? A long term, basic but firm, and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies What were the goals of the Tru...
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During World War I and World War II, it was dangerous for anyone to oppose war or to speak truth to power. When Eugene Victor Debs delivered his Canton anti-war speech in 1918, he went to prison. In An Enemy of the People, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen demonstrated that the majority...
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(like the kind used on D-Day during World War II) on the side of a Navy transport ship, jumping the last few feet into a landing craft that took us Marines ashore. As we landed, fighting was taking place not that far from our location on the beach. And a few hours later, the ...