How Did Ww2 Improved American Society

Unintended consequences are often seen as unpleasant, especially in times of war. World War II began when Hitler attacked Poland on September 1, 1939. Soon after England declared war on Germany, other countries became involved in the war. The Nazis were so relentless to have power that the allies almost didn’t overcome Germany. The Battle of Berlin, being hard fought, was won by the Soviet Union and, thus, the beginning of the end of World War II. Bloody and violent, this war cost many lives, and it also dramatically had lasting changes on the political world. Surprisingly from 1939 to 1965, the economic and social impact of World War II improved American society most significantly felt in three distinct areas: African Americans’ civil rights, …show more content…
Being seen as the minorities of the time, they were fighting for civil rights and equality. A. Philip Randolph, a leader of the Civil Rights Movement that threatened a March on Washington and called for equal opportunities for African-Americans, wrote, “Negroes presented themselves for work only to be given the cold shoulder.” Randolph was correct in the sense that minorities including African-Americans experienced an innumerate amount of unequal treatment in factories and the workplace compared to that of their white counterparts. In World War II they had fought alongside the whites and had a sense that America was changing in favor of equality. However, it took radical acts of defiance and relentless demands for equality before it improved. Due to A. Philip Randolph and other civil rights activists America was moving closer to racial justice. African-Americans faced many challenges in society as well but it also began to change after World War II. Up until this point segregation was enacted through Jim Crow laws in the South and virtually denied equal rights to African-Americans, even though the Supreme …show more content…
Before World War II, women stayed at home, and the men provided for the family by working; however, as men started going off to war, jobs opened up for women. Their labor made major contributions to the war effort. During this time, America was dependent on women than ever before. This was beginning of women realizing they were capable of making their own money. The government through the Lanham Act ensured that women could contribute the war efforts by providing them with child care services. In an informative political cartoon a writer wrote, “The demands of the defense industry lured six million women into the workforce after 1941…” Six million women would not have gone into the defense industry if not for the war. Since women got paid the same as men, they had more money, which improved the economy as well. The social aspect of women after World War II is that it helped instill women with the power to have engage in men’s work. Rosie the Riveter was a famous icon figure during the war and it helped establish that women were just as able as men were to work in the defense industry. Women realized that their life didn’t just have to be confined to the home that they could make their own life and not have to rely on a man to do it for them. World War II gave the opportunity to show that women were just as equal as

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