First I will talk about why I thought that the war was a "good war". Economically many people before the war were having a tough time making ends meet. Once the U.S. entered the war in 1941 the economy swiftly grew and put many people to work. The bracero program which was an American-Mexican program designed to let Mexicans cross the border into the U.S. and let them workjobs such as ship building on the Pacific coast.. Sioux and Navajos were hired by the masses to aid in the construction of military depot

Women in the work force climbed the most drastically, during the great depression women who were married were barred form most jobs. But WW II, for the first time opened many doors for women in the work force. " The number of female automobile workers for example jumped from 29,000 to 200,000 and that of women electrical workers from 100,000 to 374,000." This Quote from Out of many a history of the American people really shows you the amount of increase in women labor during WW II. Women did especially benefit from the war. "The female labor force grew by over 50% reaching 19.5 million in 1945." That was another quote taken from the Out of many a history of the American people . Women enjoyed the new non-traditional responsibility of being a worker of the American labor force. This is how many people came out of the depression, even though many men of the families were away at war there was money to be made by others in the families. In Studs Ter

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