Life on the home front:
Purging and Internment of Communist Sympathizers and Fellow Travelers
Vito Marcantonio
Paul Robeson
Earl Browder
Dalton Trombo
Pete Seeger
William Z Foster
Harold Laski
Willie Gallacher
Phil Piratin
Harry Pollitt
Distribution of Anti-Communist Propaganda
Rationing of scarce war materials:
Total substitution of rubber and cotton for synthetics?
Increased use of plastic, perhaps total disappearance of wooden furniture
Industrial Changes:
Quicker switch to basic oxygen steelmaking
Increased use of Underground Coal Gasification?
Assembly line production of homes becomes the norm
Social Impact:
First war where a non-negligible share of the population owns television sets
First war with desegregated military
Boost to "Great Migration"
Interruption of Baby Boom?
Wyoming sees population boom from Uranium mining
Earlier construction of highway networks?
Political Impact:
Strengthening of calls for economic planning and social insurance
Complete ostracization of isolationists (e.g. Robert Taft, Henry Wallace)
Promise of independence for colonies in exchange for wartime support