World War II effects Ever since September 1st, 1939 when World War ll first began there has been a lot of counter arguments about who it had affected the most. Everyone has their own opinion on it, but who is exactly correct? World War II didn’t only affect the soldiers but their families as well. It had a major impact on the whole country. World War II had effects on the U.S. more than you would think. The world was simply left in a great depression. Nearly all men had to go to war. During this time the government made the first annual “draft.” Meaning all men between the ages of 21-45 was forced to register for war. Men who qualified for war were sent to help fight against Germany and its Allies. This left nobody working in the factories and woman were forced to go work. This led to a ration on clothing and furniture. Not to mention gas, food, and other short supply objects. The U.S. was left in doubt with a total of approximately 418,500 men dead. …show more content…
Even though women were expected to be stay home mothers, they were working outside their home instead. Woman had no choice but to cover the jobs for the men. This also led to a major decrease in divorce. Plus even more shortages of many items. Katharine Phillips said “During the war, you just kept thinking that life cannot begin until this is over. You just had to see again, that all the boys that you had known and had been fond of were home safely.” This made the woman become more independent and acknowledge that they had more in them self’s as humans. They knew they were more capable of doing things than everyone thought they could do. So when the men came home, most of the women had changed from being homemakers, to doing the men’s jobs. The men knew that they were not indispensable. World War II was a very emotional, and was a hard time for the
The social effects that it brought to the American people is tremendous. First off, African Americans served in the war and was still receiving racist remarks. However, the NAACP went from having 50,000 supporters to 500,000. When World War II was happening, women could do labor work when the men were on the battlefield. For example, they became nurses, farmers, and even got work in factories. After the war, women got to keep their jobs unlike they did when world war one ended. Another thing that helped was that Americans assisted on modernizing the islands communication system by instilling cables, made various health services available, and the cultural side of things got better as well.2 New inventions rose a lot because it created opportunities for people. For example, minorities got to play in sports, music and drama impacted many people; fashion improvements even though they had to ration on wool and other fabrics needed for clothing. It brought people more close even though they were faced with complications, they still got to create more opportunities for themselves because they had to basically start from
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.
World War II had a major impact on America. America did suffer economic crisis from the
World War II is an event that has marked history like no other. Originating from a European struggle, war broke out in 1939 and continued for six years. From the years 1939 through 1945 more than half the earth's surface was battling in war. American society was greatly affected. People of every age, race and class were deeply affected. Women's place in society took a leap forward like it never had before. As an effect of the second world war women's traditional roles in society were drastically altered.
Many women were able to do things like getting jobs that they had never been able to do before. A member of the Australian Women’s Army Service talks about how with no one to stop them, “young women without domestic responsibilities who were free to enlist did so”. Before the war, women were kept in their place as housewives, their main purposes being to please their husbands and to raise children. They were constantly taught that they were nothing without a man, and how only he was smart enough to make decisions. Dorothy Hewett even notes, “Many marriages broke down because the women just couldn’t take this man coming back and telling them what to do, as he’d always done in the past.”
WWII had a major impact on America both positive and negative. The war affected many aspects of American life and had lasting impacts even after the war ended. The war required a huge production effort to provide the materials the soldiers needed to fight. The United States produced weapons for the war and became “an arsenal of democracy.” The United States experienced a change in economic and social patterns and this provided a template for years after the war. On the positive side, WWII brought about many changes to world. It brought us into the modern age, revolutionized warfare, established America and Russia as the supreme powers of the world, laid the political geography for the next century, was the origin of the Cold War, introduced nuclear weapons to the world, revolutionized large-scale warfare, showed what an evil regime is capable of (Holocaust, Japanese POW camps), introduced or started new, and it brought war to a completely new destructive scale.
America was effected by the war as well it effected America socially, economically, and politically. The society had its changes between whites, women and men also the migration all across America the war led an enormous migration of American people. The war caused in a huge transformation of the character of a women. World War 2 was a reminder for many blacks of the unfairness of American society. Government scientists developed products such as television, air conditioning and established new ones. Radio, sonar, and radar devices, as well as artillery shell fuses. Technology that was used during the war is still used today just with an upgrade (70 years later: How World War II changed
There were several economic and diplomatic effects on the U.S due to World War II. The most well known economic effect on the U.S was the Great Depression. The stock market crashed on October 29,1929 which ultimately set off the Great Depression. The Great Depression occurred prior to WWII and it caused a fourth of the work force to become unemployed. Unemployment began to decline after the U.S officially entered WWII but its only because young men were sent off to war and were killed causing a slight decline in unemployment. Not only was there a sharp unemployment rate due to the Great Depression but it also caused banks to close because the banks gave out huge loans to invest into the stock market which resulted in not only political instability but economic instability. The closing of banks also lead to the
World war II was a major history influence that took place during the nineteen forty. The United States entered in nineteen forty-one after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and was then that changed the way of living for all American citizens. The World War II impacted woman the most and because of WWII, a new role of women was created, changing the way they were viewed.
The USA was affected at home during WWII by many contributing factors. During the fight in WWII we had to focus on the tactics and the affects at home such as Women, African Americans, and WWII Propaganda posters. When we went to war there was a large labor shortage and it was a stereotype that men were to be sent to war so it left the women at home to produce and enforce the war effort. This lead to women getting s bigger role in the workforce. This also led to the equal rights movement in the future. They showed the government that women were not just for tending the house and the children they could actually be a great help after all and in the end they really did win the war. The next effect at home due to the war would be African Americans.
The Impacts of World War II on America What would every day American life be without World War II? American lives were and still are changed by what happened many years ago. During World War II, a devastating war in which America and many other countries participated in with the ultimate goal of destroying tranny, America was changed, which in turn affects the lives of many Americans. The war affected Americans then and now as well, socially, politically, and economically.
During WW2 the presence of men at home was to a bare minimum. The impact this had on women was felt throughout the nation. How women would be looked at would be changed forever. They had to uphold various positions that were usually held by men and reevaluate their roles as homemakers. Their lives at home had changed; they were no longer the primary care giver. They also joined different parts of the military. Due to men being away at war during WW2 women were forced to participate in the workforce, which would change their view of their position in society.
WW2 was one the most horrible wars ever to take place.Now days it has effected us the way we live now.
Although World War II was primarily fought in Europe and Asia, it had a global effect. Isabel Allende demonstrates that World War II’s effects were just as profound in The House of the Spirits as Samuel Beckett does in Waiting for Godot.
The war began on September 1, 1939, with Germany’s invasion of Poland. Nations who were the most active during the war roughly included France, Germany, Great Britain, Poland, and the U.S., to name a few. The war wreaked havoc across the world as it is claimed to be “the most destructive enterprise in human history” with approximately fifty million lives lost throughout. Although the world suffered a great loss of life during the war, by the 1950s, Western Europe and Japan were headed in the direction of becoming economic rivals with the United States. The war brought about many jobs, not just in the U.S., but in other corners of the globe as well. The Great Depression ran its course and with the war we entered into a new economic era of prosperity. When the war was all said and done, citizens everywhere enjoyed peace and the privilege of being able to reunite with their loved ones. Even the Soviets enjoyed the postwar, as “those decades were infinitely better than the prewar years.” The war ended in April of 1945 when German forces surrendered