From 1939-1945 the Second World War in history took place between mostly the USA, France, The Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Japan, United Kingdom, and many other countries. In the end the war would be one by the Allies just like WW1 causing Germany and the rest of the Allied powers to lose, again. During the WWII era, 1939-1945, many minorities received few positive changes. The specified negative changes socially for African Americans, Politically for German-Americans and Japanese -Americans, and economy for Japanese America’s caused by the war.
African Americans, WWII, don’t sound connected although WWII definitely affected the African Americans socially, but not positively. In 1943, a little more than halfway through the part of the war America was involved in, the US Office of War Information put out an and particular ad. The first thing people notice about the ad is the words “Plant a victory garden,” which is the point of the ad, but even through the innocence of the ad there is an issue., The unaddressed issue is that in the image all the people were white. The given image is supposed to demonstrate patriotism in supporting America in the war. Although a decent chunk of the population from 1939-1945 was African American they were not represented. Through the analyzation of the image it is clear that African Americans were socially discrimination against. This is again proven in a photo taken in 1944 of the Tuskegee airman, a unit of African American pilots, who were very revered, fighting in a segregated unit during WWII. Although many people saw this as a positive because the people allowed the Tuskegee pilots which before would have never have been “allowed” due to racism of education level and patriotism. The truth of the fact is …show more content…
African Americans faced more social discrimination, Japanese Americans and Germans saw political struggle, and Japanese saw economic struggle and Women saw economic
African Americans, WWII, don’t sound connected although WWII definitely affected the African Americans socially, but not positively. In 1943, a little more than halfway through the part of the war America was involved in, the US Office of War Information put out an and particular ad. The first thing people notice about the ad is the words “Plant a victory garden,” which is the point of the ad, but even through the innocence of the ad there is an issue., The unaddressed issue is that in the image all the people were white. The given image is supposed to demonstrate patriotism in supporting America in the war. Although a decent chunk of the population from 1939-1945 was African American they were not represented. Through the analyzation of the image it is clear that African Americans were socially discrimination against. This is again proven in a photo taken in 1944 of the Tuskegee airman, a unit of African American pilots, who were very revered, fighting in a segregated unit during WWII. Although many people saw this as a positive because the people allowed the Tuskegee pilots which before would have never have been “allowed” due to racism of education level and patriotism. The truth of the fact is …show more content…
African Americans faced more social discrimination, Japanese Americans and Germans saw political struggle, and Japanese saw economic struggle and Women saw economic