Labels:text | screenshot | newspaper OCR: TIME The 1940s ALMANAC OF THE 20TH CENTURY January 1940-December 1949 PORTRAITS Communism. It was a frustrating, unsatisfactory war, waged at a low, often clandestine let's give him level, with uncer- Winston Churchill ELECTIONS WAR IN EUROPE WAR IN PACIFIC HOMEFRONT POST-WAR WORLD MORE B fascism. The U.S. better than ever weapons created TAKES SHAPE ROOSEVELT emerged the deci- before; and the by atomic science. Union transmuted sive victor: its sol- U.S. had mustered itself from 8 diers had fought the will to use the But from 1945 wartime ally into an 1940 their way across fearsome new on, the Soviet implacable , tyranni- Josef Stalin the Pacific and into cal foe, bent on ide- the heart 01 The 1940s was a Europe; an indus- TIME ological supremacy and hegemonic decade dominated trial miracle had domination. The by war. From 1940 transformed the U.S. found itself 1944 to 1945, most of the U.S. economy into leading the free world's people were the "arsenal of world in the "Cold TRUMAN embroiled in the democracy," while War" to contain and AND Second World War, permitting most try to push back the BARKLEY the war to defeat Americans to live TOP STORIES OF THE 1940s MAN OF tide of world-wide THE YEAR 1948
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