In 1944, American public opinion shifted away from supporting female workers as American soldiers began to return home from Europe.  

After World War II, European economies were devastated and conditions in countries like Italy and France looked favorable to Communism.  

Responses to the Great Depression had far-reaching consequences in many countries, including the development of 

The leader who won the Chinese civil war in 1949 and established Communism in China was

The hulls of German U-boats were thin enough to be easily pierced and sunk.  

In World War I, Germany and France became locked in a stalemate along hundreds of miles of trenches for years.

The stock market crash revealed structural flaws in the economy and in government policies but did NOT cause the Great Depression.  

The Soviet Union lost 30 million people during World War II and believed that they should dictate the postwar situation in Eastern Europe at the Yalta Conference (1945).  

In the U. S., the Red Scare involved a government-led hunt for communist subversives.  The senator who led the hunt and exploited the fears of Americans to gain influence was 

The Bolshevik Revolution (1917) led millions to join the Communist party in America.