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The attack on the USS Greer was used by the Roosevelt administration to promote sympathy for the Allied cause and to weaken strong isolationist convictions.

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The war intruded into children's lives with excitement, confusion, and fear. But there was plenty of time and space for normal routine.

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During the Coolidge years of prosperity to the Great Depression and New Deal, Americans were loathe to take a critical stand against the rise of dictators & militarism.

National Security Council Report 68 defined the Cold War as a global confrontation between the free world led by the U.S. & the Soviet Union intent on global domination.

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It was little known that on at least two dozen occasions blood was drawn by either side of the two superpowers in the cold war in aerial combat.

The American military and political machine was set in motion and did not stop until the war was won.