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How Did Ww2 Affect America

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The Second World war had impacted the Americans in ways that became irreversible, but at the same time had not always been positive. The unity and national support of the war sparked a fast-growing rate of industrialization, production, and economic success in the United States. After the attack on Pearl Harbor the ideology of racism towards Asian peoples had become very popularized in the United states, but it was not a new concept. The topic of racism towards African-Americans remained rather stagnant during the time of the war in the Domestic American society, but it did not affect the African-American support of the war. Throughout the whole entirety of the nation change had been inflicted; however, not all changes were beneficial nor were …show more content…

One aspect that had become popular was the use of women to work in factories; however, women had already been working in factories since the nineteenth century. What was such a major change was the drastic increase of female employees. In the span of the war, four million more females began working in factories for war production. The government utilizes this via propaganda saying, “more women at work, the sooner we win!” located in document 4, and other cartoons like Rosie the Riveter. Also, with the increase in war factory production people began to migrate to these places, California gained roughly 1,500,000 workers during the period according to document 6. This increase in jobs led to the end of the great depression. The increase in industrialization led to technological advances such as atomic energy expressed by Bernhard J. Stern in document 7. America had become very changed by the shift in middle class gender roles, war related jobs producing economic success for America, and new technological advances in the …show more content…

They fully supported the war effort; however, they probably understood the hypocrisy of the situation more than anyone else. America was fighting for the freedom of its citizens but simultaneously neglected the freedoms of its colored citizens. The Pittsburgh Courier of document three writes at this time of the African-American fight against the enslavers abroad and their domestic enslavers, showing how their situations had changed little during the war. Corporal Rupert Trimmingham, a colored man, expresses his predicament in document 5 of how enemies of his nation are being treated better than his segregated company. So in the time of the Second World War treatment of blacks changed little in the United States, but blacks still did their part in the war along with the rest of the

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