Chapter 16 asserts that World War Two did to the Depression-era labor movement what the Spanish-American War, the Civil War, and the Revolution had previously done to their burgeoning labor movements. Chapter 16 points out that the war was rhetorically fought with the best intentions. Chapter 16 highlights that before the war, American policy was driven by a quest for stability rather than democracy. Chapter 16 attests that, as with other American wars, socialist and labor activists attempted to oppose the war and American policy abroad. Chapter 16 highlights that in a departure from tradition, where wartime controls were removed and Americans returned to peacetime activities after World War II, the US maintained a large standing army and pivoted from a struggle against Nazism towards a Cold War with the Soviet Union. Finally, Chapter 16 points out that at home in the United States, fears of Communist subversion and infiltration turned into the persecution of anyone who had in the 1930s been associated with labor activism, the Communist Party, or left-wing agitation.
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