WEll, given that the UN was not actually ratified into being until after the war was over in 1945, they would have had a hard time battling Communism, wouldn't they? NOt that the UN would particularly have been interested in battling one form of ideology over another, as part of its charter is to broker peace instead of arbitrate over disputes. Besides, Communism was no particular threat, especially to the US in the 40s, because the USA was at war with Japan and were actually allies with the Soviet Union throughout the coflict, running convoys of supplies to northern Russian cities like Murmansk, all the time at terrible risk of a mauling from the German submarines that picked them off like chickens. Here's an idea for you: try reading http://www.un.org/aboutun/history.htm
Communism
Communism means a global society with no classes or money or government. Sadly, this idea was not βwinningβ in the 1940s.
World War II & Communism
In the 1940s and 1950s, Americans had a cultural hysteria about the Soviet threat.
The fear of communism was growing in the late 1940s because Russia was expanding its military forces. It was also growing because it was so different than the American way of life.
in 1940 the spread of communism came to china in there darkest hours.
Well the nations the fell under communism in the late 40's were Romania, Bulgaria, East Germany , Czechoslovakia , Hungary, Yugoslavia (Serbia, Macedon ,Croatia, Bosnia , Slovenia ,and Kosovo ) Albania and Poland.
In the 1930s there were about 131,000,000 people living in the United States. In the 1940s this number increased to about 134,000,000.
The United Farm Workers started in the early 1940s
Money and jobs (employment) were geared up to fight communism.
Anti American spirit increased in Latin America when the United States intervened int he governments of Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Argentina. This occurred during the 1940s.
The Red Scare was the promotion of the fear of communism and radical left politics spreading widely.