War On Student Recruitment In The United States

The internal negative impacts are as followed: United States soldiers returned home with a grand welcome party however, all else was lacking. America had never experienced a time of post war such as World War I and was ill prepared for the return of its’ soldiers and its’ new claimed victory. “By granting World War II veterans comprehensive education, housing, and unemployment benefits, the government recognized the error of sending World War I veterans home with little more than the clothes on their backs” (Keene, Jennifer D. 2). American soldiers faced a tremendous change to their prior life-styles as war efforts had altered the familiarity of their hometowns. World War I and Its Aftermaths states, “Frustration and racism combined to produce violence” (28). Turmoil grew greatly post the Great War due to the Great Migration, new-found intolerance among American citizens, and lack of jobs. Acts of violence were induced by and included racial riots, strikes, and violation of civil rights. Racial Riots such as the Red Summer were a direct result of World War I. “The massive bloodshed during included thousands of injuries, hundreds of deaths, and vast destruction of private and public property across the nation” (Chavaz, Tizoc 21). Intolerance was cultivated during the Great War. “By whipping up nationalist passions American attitudes toward radicalism, dissent, and immigration were poisoned” (Chavaz, Tizoc 21). Greedy business men desired to cripple the union and the gains made during the War. World War I and Its Aftermath states, “Many business leaders, on the other hand, were determined to break the power of the unions and roll back the gains labor had made” (27). The business leaders’ actions caused a wave of strikes to hit the nation. War. World War I and Its Aftermath states, “By the end of the year, more than 3,600 strikes involving more than 4 million

After World War II, the American psyche became permanently stained with new ideas. During this time period, the American government actively sought to change the way the American people thought. The support of the American public was crucial to the success of the war effort. Many ideas introduced during this point of time consisted of new roles of certain people groups in American society. Women and minority groups would prove themselves in the workplace, millions of citizens would be discriminated against, and social barriers would be broken and assembled. Even though World War II took place in Europe and the Pacific, it made lasting social changes that can still be seen in America.

While institutional form was changing, academic standards were still lax, and institutions admitted anyone who had the money to attend, even if they were poorly prepared (2012; Cohen & Kisker, 2009). Many higher education institutions struggled to survive World War I’s impact, and only two thirds of institutions remained open by the end of the war (Cardozier, 1993). Presidents of larger universities suggested that smaller colleges should close if they could not keep up with institutional transformation or become junior colleges to prepare students to attend universities (Cohen & Kisker, 2009). The making of the contemporary research university helped some universities survive the conflict. The Association of American Universities (AAU) formed in 1900 aided in the increase of research based institutes, and throughout World War I research to aid the war effort through studies on explosives and industrial processes was supported through government funding (2009). The Reserve Officers’ Training Corps formed in 1916 and the Students’ Army Training Corps formed in 1918 allowed male students to enlist in the army while simultaneously living on campus and receiving training from the military. In the “Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors” in 1918, Lovejoy, Capps, and Young state:

The American home front during World War II is recalled warmly in popular memory and cultural myth as a time of unprecedented national unity, years in which Americans stuck together in common cause. World War II brought many new ideas and changes to American life. Even though World War II brought no physical destruction to the United States mainland, it did affect American society. Every aspect of American life was altered by U.S. involvement in the war including demographics, the labor force, economics and cultural trends.

World War II changed the lives of many Americans overnight. Men, women, children, everyone was impacted by it in one way or another. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Imperial Japanese, the United States made the decision to enter World War II and fight back. World War II gave those who were discriminated against better opportunities. World War II impacted many Americans especially Latinos, African Americans, and women. Even though they were all discriminated against equally before World War II, during World War II Latinos and African Americans had a more positive experience than women.

In Michael C.C. Adams’ The Best War Ever America and World War II, the author explains and clarifies the truth about the many myths in and about the war. There are many reasons as to why the war was seen as something positive and as a “good” thing for our nation. Motives such as the media and Hollywood’s glamorization of the war, economic growth within the nation after the Great Depression, and government agenda all had part in this crazy misconception we all know as

President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society was a set of social, political, and domestic programs put in place between 1964 and 1965, in response to the country’s quickly fading post-war prosperity. It strived to reduce social inequalities (especially racial discrimination) and boost the formerly thriving economy. The Great Society encompassed virtually all social policy sections, like civil rights, poverty and housing, education, health, welfare, arts and culture, transportation, environment, rural development, and labor. With such an ambitiously large program to follow, Johnson’s Great Society was bound to have a few flaws, and its success wasn’t guaranteed. It did, however, lead to several major social changes that revolutionized the United

War is believed to provide little, if any, benefits. One thing is obvious, however; war plays a major role in the creation of new tensions between the nations in the conflict. This was evident during the Mid-twentieth century. Majority of this time, the U.S. was in a war with Vietnam. The Vietnam war started in 1955 after Eisenhower promised the leader of South Vietnam that the U.S. would protect them from Northern takeover. This promised only got stronger under the terms of Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Thousands of soldiers were sent to South Vietnam to fight against North Vietnamese troops. A draft was even created in 1969. The consequences of the Vietnam war reached the American shore and had much effect on the U.S. homefront. The Vietnam

Higher Education between 1945 and 1970 was known as the “Golden Age” and SPPV (1949) came right at the beginning of this era (Thelin & Gasman, 2011). In 1945 the federal government used the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (GI Bill), to offset the pressure of hundreds of thousands returning war veterans into a job market that was not able to handle them all (Thelin & Gasman, 2011). The GI Bill provided a policy for increasing the diversity of student at both colleges and universities (Thelin & Gasman, 2011). The influx of students stressed many campuses because they did not have enough faculty and staff to accommodate the students as well as the physical environment to house all the students (Thelin & Gassman, 2011). The stress involved with the increase of students even further shows the need for SPPV (1949) pushing the separation between student services staff and faculty, because faculty simply did not have the time to advise and work with every new student now enrolling in the higher education system. Parker (1978) shows that during the 1960’s most colleges and universities had whole divisions dedicated to student affairs professionals, which were not present in the past and directly reflective of SPPV (1949). SPPV (1949) laid out 17 services of a student personnel program that became divisions by the 1960’s (Parker, 1978).

The war forced americans to take more active roles in society. It changed the way the world worked and ushered us into a new generation. Women began to work,the entertainment industry changed and everyone’s way of life changed as well such as how they used resources,how they interacted with each other and how they saw the world. The war turned society upside down and changed American society into an entirely new country,a better country. The

“Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.”(Bowen). World War II was a start to a new beginning of what America has become from the impact of the war. Chaos across countries brought hope to America, in the sense that the people of America are coming together in a situation of multiple countries fighting. World War Two brought many positive impacts to the lives of women, the economy, and the lives of African Americans.

World War II was a very important event in American history, but as bad as war is or seems to be there always seems to have better outcomes in the end. By the Japanese bombing Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and bringing America into the war it opened the eyes of all Americans to the problems not only domestically but internationally and the biggest problem that was discovered after the completion of World War II was the level of social equality around the world. It had been a problem that had plagued the world for many years but the atrocities that brought about by the war coupled with the ever growing eye of the media caused for greater concern in the light of social equality in the world.

WWII was a catastrophic war, and this is because it resulted in the deaths of over 60 million people in the military and civilians worldwide. The United States of America (U. S. A), itself lost over 400,000 men and women in service during the war. It is also important to note that over 650,000 more men in service got injured during the war. Despite the massive destruction of property and loss of life, the Second World War was a major transformative event for the US society (Levine & Levine, 2011). Due to the transformations caused by the war, many people benefited both during the war and its aftermath. The war set stage to the onset of major changes within the country and these changes include changes in education, changes in the housing patterns, changes in people 's perception of the world, as well as, changes in the social structure of the country. This particular paper focuses on the Second World War and how it created employment opportunities and the aftermath of the end of the war for the poor, women, and black Americans.

In fact, the United States had enjoyed an extended period of economic expansion during the war, and following the war the U.S. economy continued with great strength for more than a decade. Life in America, consequently, was arguably better than it had ever been. The middle class had swelled, unemployment rates were some of the lowest in history, and the “American Dream” was for many families a reality.

Some of the effects of the Great War that changed history and impacted 20th century are the decline of empires, the beginning of America’s ascent in global power, and the rise of class angst and politics.