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During World War II, the United States saw significant economic and social shifts on the home front. Higher wages and job opportunities emerged as farmers thrived due to favorable conditions. Women increasingly entered the workforce in defense plants, often earning better pay through challenging roles. The war prompted population shifts as African Americans sought jobs in northern cities, amid instances of discrimination and unrest exemplified by the 1943 Detroit Riots. Additionally, the internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans showcased the complexities of civil liberties during wartime, with families losing homes and facing severe injustices.
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The United States in World War II The Home Front
Opportunity and Adjustment • Economic Gains • Higher wages • Famers prospered-better weather, improvements • Women –defense plants, better pay –challenging work • Population Shifts • African Americans left South for work in North • Workers move to where work was • -defense plants • Social Adjustments • Parents often working-at war • Many rushed to marry • Congress passed GI Bill of Rights (Serviceman’s Readjustment Act)
Discrimination and Reaction • African Americans find more jobs during war • Discrimination, violence in overcrowded cities • Detroit Riot 1943/9 whites, 25 blacks died • Los Angeles • Zoot Suit riots 1943
Internment of Japanese Americans • 120,000 Japanese American in U.S. during war • Pearl Harbor Attack causes rumors to spread of Japanese spies in U.S. • Some Japanese “interned” in Hawaii • On West Coast of U.S. 110,000 sent to camps • 2/3 Nisei –born in the U.S. • 1/3 Issei– born in Japan • FDR signed Executive Order 9066-appled to West Coast only
Japanese Internment • No Charges Ever Filed Against Japanese in U.S. • No EVIDENCE of subversion ever found • Families forced to sell homes & possessions
Japanese Internment • Japanese fought Internment in Courts • Korematsu v. United States 1944 • Supreme Court said “military necessity” • 1988 Pres. Reagan signed a bill to give $20,000 to each individual that “suffered internment”
