ABSTRACT
The United States Student Assembly, which was a confederation of various anti-Communist and liberal student groups, was formed just prior to the Second World War and continued to function throughout the war. The students for democratic action maintained a strongly anti-Communist position on foreign policy, but were occasionally too liberal on domestic matters to suit the adult americans for democratic action leadership. While student organizations concerned with politics and social action continued to function during the war, there was almost no activism opposing either government policies or university regulations. The origins of the national student association go back to the immediate postwar idealistic phase of the student movement and are linked to the development of the international union of students. Communist campus efforts were aimed at increasing the involvement of students in the war effort and were notably nonpolitical. While student political organizations and movements which existed during the thirties declined dramatically, changes were occurring on campus.
