A Brief History of World War II: American Involvement and Social Effects of the War on America
Many people think that the United States' involvement in World War II did not actually begin until Japan infamously attacked the American navy base at Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941. However, in truth, even before the Pearl Harbor attack by the Japanese, the American President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) and other U.S. military, industrial, and economic leaders had taken initial steps to mobilize the nation into a wartime economy. In terms of both mobilization at home and social effects of the war, the onset of World War II contributed greatly to changes, many of them permanent, in American society and the American way of life. In the build-up to the war, American factories were offered economic rewards by the government for adopting wartime production modes and practices. Consequently, United States industry focused increasingly on military-style production. For example, factories like Ford Motor Company, once dedicated solely to automobile production, also begin large-scale manufacturing
Both the onset of World War II and the war itself, in terms of initial mobilization at home and the social effects of the war, introduced many changes to American society, not a few of them permanent. Overall, as a result of World War II, America became a more integrated society, not only on the battlefield, but in factories and other workplaces. The booming economy not only offered full employment at home, but created conditions of possibility, as well, for decades of later American prosperity. Consequently, many southern African-Americans in particular, whose parents and grandparents had remained subsistence-level sharecroppers now migrated North, to Philadelphia; Detroit; Washington, D.C., New York; Chicago, and other big urban cities, in search of better employment and lives, for themselves and their families. During World War II, Americans also experienced strict rationing of food; materials, and supplies. Americans widely supported the war effort, though, and most felt, patriotically, more t
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