REGNRSG 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: White Southerners, Female Promiscuity, Heterosexuality
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Looking ahead to the post-war area, people realized that the war ad unleashed large forces that would produce a new world and a new american society. Some, like macleish, believed change could be harnessed through the efforts of an enlightened government to the goal of creating a better and more just society. Others viewed the future with uncertainty, many hoping to preserve the patterns of power and wealth that had shapes the world they had known before the war. The social and cultural legacy of world war ii was the product of broad social forces that no individuals or institutions could ultimately control. Americans were certain that the war validated their conflicting expectations, the social and cultural legacy was the result of these different visions of the post-war world. World war ii ended the great depression in the united states, making the nation rich again.
