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Social Impact of the War

Explore how African Americans, Mexican Americans, Japanese Americans, and Women faced discrimination, found new opportunities, and navigated challenges during World War II in the United States.

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Social Impact of the War

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  1. Social Impact of the War

  2. African Americans • Faced discrimination in military through segregation • Although African Americans made some gains during the war they continued to suffer discrimination • Jim Crow System persisted in the South • Discrimination in the North in housing and employment • Most people (60%) felt that African Americans were satisfied • Government acted against discrimination for the first time in history • CORE- Congress of Racial Equality • Used non-violent techniques to end racism

  3. Mexican Americans • Found new employment opportunities during the war, but they also encountered discrimination • Jobs were in ship yards and aircraft factories • Farm laborers faced crowded conditions and discrimination in neighborhoods- barrios • Zoot suit riots- sailors looked for men in zoot suits and beat them up and humiliated them • Led to full scale riots • Mexicans were blamed

  4. Japanese Americans • Japanese Americans suffered discrimination and hostility during the war • After Pearl Harbor hostility toward Japanese Americans grew to hatred and hysteria • Some joined the military

  5. Japanese internment • Japanese Americans on the west coast were put into internment camps • Sent to “relocation camps” • Lived in wooden barracks • Rooms had cots, blankets, one light • Had to share toilet, bathing and dining facilities • “Uncomfortably close to concentration camps” • After the war some easily returned to regular lives • While others lost everything

  6. Women • The war created new employment opportunities for women • Higher paying jobs were given to women because men were in the army • After the war women were expected to go back to working at home • Many did not want to • The percentage of African American women in industrial jobs increased

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