Focused admirably on winning overseas, but once they got back, had huge, gaping blind spots that allowed the leftists to start their slow but unstoppable march through the American institutions (starting with the universities), and raised a clueless, selfish generation of hippie progressives that started the decline of Western civilization.
Sorry, total failure in hindsight. With the West on its knees, the victory in WWII does not mean much any more.
I pretty much agree. The bad policies of the 1960s were not put into place by Baby Boomers but by WWII veterans who had fought fascism abroad and then came home to vote for LBJ’s Great Society. Some elements of the Baby Boomers should be blamed for the bad policies of the 70s and 90s but the “Greatest Generation” started the world rolling to the Left.
WW II had a number of ill effects on the US.
It extended FDR’s tenure by probably 2 and at least 1 administration.
It exposed a couple million American men to European culture.
It shifted a huge portion of the US economy to producing war goods.
Many of those companies were not large enough to do both peace time goods and war time goods and then shift back to purely peace time goods when peace was declared.
Much is made of the Marshal Plan which helped rebuild Europe after after the war. But how much of those loans were ever repaid?
Not much.
In my opinion WW I led to WW II which led to a Socialist America.
The final fatal test of a nation which endured affliction and adversity, is affluence. Which God wants redeemed man to overcome by surrender and consecration to the risen Lord Jesus.
The WW II generation had its share of cowards, screwups, and shirkers, while Baby Boomers have its share of heroes and tough men (think Vietnam Vets).