s. Millions of the citizens had been killed and there was a fear of atomic warfare. The United States was no longer using their isolationist ideas. There was a World Bank formed as well as an international monetary fund. Atomic energy was an affair of the Civilian Atomic Energy Commission. Atomic energy was to be the topic for most world affairs for the next 50 years. The U.S. was definitely changed after the war. The war pulled America out of the depression with large amounts of wartime manufacturing. Women went to work to take up the jobs left open by men at war. The women didnt want to go back to the home once the war was over though. This was new to America but also helped the U.S. become a world power. After The end of World War II all the main powers were in the Atomic Arms Race. To see whom could build the biggest nuclear armament. This led up to the Cold War, which shaped the world for the next 40 years (Jordan, Greenblatt, and Bowes 250-367).PART IIGeneral William Billy Mitchell, Air Force Pioneer, is one of the most vague heroes of the 20th century. Not many people know what he did for our country. He is one of the reasons the United States has a superior military power as compared to any other country. Billy Mitchell is the Father of the United States Air Force. Without his influence in the further outlook of air force power, we might have never become the military country we are today. Billy Mitchell is one of the most famous and controversial people in the American air force. Some saw him as a far-sighted military leader, but others saw him as radical egotist who opposed anyone who did not agree on his advancement of the United States Air Force (Hurley 8).Billy Mitchell was born in Nice, France, in 1879. He was the son of a rich Wisconsin Senator and grandson of a wealthy railroad owner; his life can be seen as an ironic one. Billy Mitchell grew up in Milwaukee, and was educated at Racine College and George Washington Un...
