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Many women took jobs that fell outside the traditional realm of women's work.
He was twice stopped on his attempted invasions of the North - first at Antietam, then Gettysburg. Finally he was besieged by Grant outside the Confederate capital, Richmond, and starved into surrender at Appomattox.
“I can deal with Stalin. He is honest, but smart as hell.”—President Harry Truman, diary entry, July 17, 1945. “In summary, we have here [in the Soviet Union] a political force committed fanatically to the belief that with US there can be no permanent modus vivendi that it is desirable and necessary that the internal harmony of our society be disrupted, our traditional way of life be destroyed, the international authority of our state be broken, if Soviet power is to be secure. This political force has complete power of disposition over energies of one of world’s greatest peoples and resources of world’s richest national territory, and is borne along by deep and powerful currents of Russian nationalism.”—George Kennan, chargé d’affaires at the U.S. embassy in Moscow in an official cable to the U.S. State Department (“The Long Telegram”), February 22, 1946. “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.”—Winston Churchill, address at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, March 5, 1946. “I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way. I believe that our help should be primarily through economic and financial aid which is essential to economic stability and orderly political processes. ”—President Harry Truman, speech to a joint session of Congress, announcing what becomes known as the Truman Doctrine, March 12, 1947.
What areas outside of Europe were affected by the war
O - Outside CON - Continental US - United States OCONUS stands for "Outside the Continental United States" Basically any country, state or possession outside of the lower 48 states.