A SHORT HISTORY OF RIGHT WING DESTRUCTION PART 10

We entered a totally new world at the end of the Second World War.  Two atomic bombs had been dropped on Japan and there was no turning back from the nuclear age.

Europe was in ruins.  We discovered the horrors of the Holocaust.  The Soviet Union, formerly an ally, became an enemy.

Harry Truman carried on in the tradition of FDR with his "Fair Deal."  The United States faced the daunting and happy prospect of reintegrating millions of returning military veterans into the economy.  Women had broken through barriers during the war when "Rosie the Riveter" symbolized women in the workforce.

The United States funded the Marshall Plan, one of the most ingenious examples of foreign policy in our history.

Berlin became a symbol of the Cold War that was to endure for decades.  Fear of communism reinvigorated the right wing in the United States and paved the way for the paranoid and fearful 1950's.

More to come