What Comes After A Third World War in 1948?

Iran probably will be a major front. Although, given the superiority of the British and American Navies, the Soviets will have little hope in taking the Persian Gulf.
They don't have enough of a Navy to get past the Baltics or Bosporus in 1948
 
Depends on the level of retaliation and the respective numbers of dead. The Soviets may have started it, but if the nutters like LeMay get to decide where the bombs fall, in years to come it won’t be too hard to see the rest of the world thinking America might have gone too far.

I don't know if we could actually obliterate the USSR that badly, without hydrogen bombs and ICBMs.
 

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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
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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
 
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Also they would get help from resistance movements that continued after the Nazis were defeated many lasted until the 1960's.
 

kernals12

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I don't know if we could actually obliterate the USSR that badly, without hydrogen bombs and ICBMs.
The power of a nuclear bomb doesn't matter thanks to the inverse squared law. It's the quantity that makes the difference.
 
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