World War II The after affects

A detailed Summary of World War II The after affects

The accounts from soldiers describing combat in general

present an image of a hellish nightmare where all decency and humanity

could be lost. For men who fought under these conditions, coming home

was a very difficult transition. Above all, these men wanted to return

to "normalcy", to come back to a life that they had been promised if

the war was won. This would turn out to be harder to obtain then first

expected, problems ranging from the availability of jobs in the work

force to child raising and post-traumatic stress would make this

return to "normalcy" very troublesome. This laborious task of reintegrating

into American culture would eventually lead to problems in the gender

One of the major problems that G.I.'s faced upon there return

to the States was the availability of jobs. During the war, the U.S.

government encouraged women and minorities to enter the industrial work

force due to labor shortages and increased demand for war goods. By 1944

a total of 1,360,000 women with husbands in the service had entered the

work force. This, along with the a migration of African-American

women in the work force changed dramatically at the end of the war. The

other ways also. Some children feared that their fathers would not stay and

they had lead during the war. Some children even resented at the strangers

upward spiral in the number of divorces that occurred after the war.

who had re-entered their lives, lives that seemed complete without him. One

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