How World War II Remade America is not another rehash of the monumental events of the nearly four years the U.S. was engaged in the war. This story has been told in many minute, carefully researched histories and accounts by many war vets, officials, military historians, scholars, and experts. It is not a definitive study of the colossal changes that World War II ushered in. Rather, it is a broad survey, a kind of pulling together, a compilation if you will, of the specific military, security, and technical and industrial products, as well as the major political and social movements for change that shook America during and after World War II. They would not have been possible, or would have been delayed for decades, without the war.

Many of the developments that World War II spawned have been detailed in scattered articles or references in a number of works. Their primary emphasis, though, is on war politics, battles, and war related events. I also omit a detailed assessment of how the war was the genesis of the Cold War and arms race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. This, like the development of the atomic bomb, has been fully documented in numerous other books, articles, and studies. How World War II Remade America pays tribute to the profound changes the war brought to America, and the men and women who made those changes. The one certainty about any new look at World War II is that if the U.S. had not entered the global fight, it would be a much different America today.