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<text>
<title>
(1940s) Editor's Note
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1940s Highlights
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
Editor's Note
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<p> The 1940s was a decade dominated by war. From 1940 to 1945,
most of the world's people were embroiled in the Second World
War, the war to defeat fascism. The U.S. emerged the decisive
victor: its soldiers had fought their way across the Pacific and
into the heart of Europe; an industrial miracle had transformed
the U.S. economy into the "arsenal of democracy," while
permitting most Americans to live better than ever before; and
the U.S. had mustered the will to use the fearsome new weapons
created by atomic science.
</p>
<p> But from 1945 on, the Soviet Union transmuted itself from a
wartime ally into an implacable, tyrannical foe, bent on
ideological supremacy and hegemonic domination. The U.S. found
itself leading the free world in the "Cold War" to contain and
try to push back the tide of world-wide Communism. It was a
frustrating, unsatisfactory war, waged at a low, often
clandestine level, with uncertain, sometimes invisible victories
and loudly publicized defeats. The U.S. ended the 1940s with
some notable Cold War victories and some saddening losses, and
a deep-seated uncertainty about whether the U.S., and democracy,
would prevail.
</p>
<p> TIME CAPSULE/THE 40s has been adapted and condensed from the
content of TIME, The Weekly Newsmagazine. The words, except for
a few connecting passages in brackets [], are those of the
magazine itself, and therefore reflect the flavor, the attitudes
and the state of knowledge of the day--sometimes innocent,
sometimes opinionated, sometimes prescient.
</p>
<p> The date at the beginning of each excerpt is the issue date
of the magazine.</p>
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