In Times of War: A Son's Remembrance of the Times in Which His Father Served Preface In the 1930s the world was going through a major workover. This was in part a result of the world-wide depression, but it was also a consequence of the unfinished Great War more than a decade earlier. At home, the New Deal of Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave many people hope. Public works projects were getting people back to work but the needs were still great. As conditions improved in the late 1930s, workers started demanding a more-fair wage and better working conditions. Unionism was starting to gain a hold. Nationally, the United States had become isolationists, not wanting to again become involved with the troubles that were gathering steam in Europe. Strong political divides were being created in America between the isolationists and the interventionists. Many thought the defense of our country was solely the two great oceans that bound us. In Europe, Fascism and Nazism had taken root. The...
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