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DerekG

(2,935 posts) Mon Nov 9, 2015, 06:39 PM Nov 2015

Any definitive accounts of our slide into permanent warfare? (1945-50)

Having grown tired of living in our merry little empire, I feel compelled to focus on that pivotal time, between the death of FDR and the launching of the Korean War, when we were set on a course for permanent warfare.

Are there any reading recommendations that tackles these pivotal five years in minute detail?

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Any definitive accounts of our slide into permanent warfare? (1945-50) (Original Post) DerekG Nov 2015 OP

You could read a biography of Harry Truman upaloopa Nov 2015 #1

there is no slide. The USA has always been a war loving country nt msongs Nov 2015 #2

upaloopa

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1. You could read a biography of Harry Truman

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Mon Nov 9, 2015, 06:48 PM

Nov 2015

He was Commander In Chief.
I was born in 1946. We were always told to fear the Russians. I remember propaganda about Russian children turning in their folks for listening to Radio Free Europe.
We had air raid drills and civil defence drills.
It was either us or them we were told. We lived in the free world they lived behind the Iron Curtain,