The 1940s opened with America still hoping to stay out of a distant war. Then came Pearl Harbor. In a single morning the United States was drawn into the largest conflict in human history. Sixteen million Americans served. Factories that had stood quiet through the Depression became the arsenal of democracy. Women entered the industrial workforce in unprecedented numbers. Japanese Americans were forced into inland camps. Black Americans fought a Double Victory campaign against fascism abroad and injustice at home. On the beaches of Normandy and the islands of the Pacific, young men paid the price of victory. Roosevelt died. Truman inherited the atomic bomb and the decision that ended the war with Japan. The decade closed with the birth of the Cold War, the GI Bill, the suburbs, the baby boom, and the first shadows of Korea and McCarthyism. Jim Rand  ...