ABSTRACT
The emphasis of student activism in the thirties on foreign affairs, and on European developments particularly, is striking since the United States was in a period of unprecedented social upheaval. The peace movement was also the last major effort of the student movement of the thirties, and with the collapse of the american student union (ASU) and the youth committee against War, the student movement of the period came to an end. As with the ASU, the twists and turns of the Soviet Union in the late thirties, plus a good deal of "red baiting" by conservative elements meant the end of the american youth congress by mid-1940. American society at large moved to the left in the thirties in the sense that social planning became more acceptable, and this shift, and the accompanying willingness to accept radical social change as a normal event, had implications for the campus scene.
