After considering the documents I’ve been given I’ve come the conclusion that only one group really got a true positive change they wouldn’t have had before. All social groups got hit with something during the war and after the war,life for everyone changed, some more positive than others.
Woman got the biggest positive change out of all social groups. Many of them began to play sports, work in factories, and in their own little way help protect the country. Much of the propaganda for the women in the war was about them finding their job in industry to help the men over seas and help keep things running at home. As shown in document three and document two women were all for the war and being a help. Songs were written and posters were made …show more content…
Although document seven shows a group of black men getting ready to serve their country as pilots in 1943 what it doesn’t show you is a year before in document eight blacks were segregated even in war time. No matter how proud they were to be Americans and serve their country they still weren’t seen as equals to anyone else in the military. On the positive side African Americans were still able to hold a new sense of pride within their race for all the good things they’ve accomplished. This is obvious in document nine where an all black newspaper stated that “we are determined to protect our country...WE ARE AMERICANS TOO!” In the end for African Americans as always there’s a major upside and a major downside.
All in all events in history will always take a toll on people differently. Not all social groups will get the long end of the stick some just get lucky and that’s how things play out. For women the men leaving for war just opened up more opportunities, Japanese Americans were discriminated against when they just wanted to be Americans, and African Americans could go up in rank but still weren’t recognized by white officers. Almost everyone had an a new door open for them during the war and some even after the
Woman got the biggest positive change out of all social groups. Many of them began to play sports, work in factories, and in their own little way help protect the country. Much of the propaganda for the women in the war was about them finding their job in industry to help the men over seas and help keep things running at home. As shown in document three and document two women were all for the war and being a help. Songs were written and posters were made …show more content…
Although document seven shows a group of black men getting ready to serve their country as pilots in 1943 what it doesn’t show you is a year before in document eight blacks were segregated even in war time. No matter how proud they were to be Americans and serve their country they still weren’t seen as equals to anyone else in the military. On the positive side African Americans were still able to hold a new sense of pride within their race for all the good things they’ve accomplished. This is obvious in document nine where an all black newspaper stated that “we are determined to protect our country...WE ARE AMERICANS TOO!” In the end for African Americans as always there’s a major upside and a major downside.
All in all events in history will always take a toll on people differently. Not all social groups will get the long end of the stick some just get lucky and that’s how things play out. For women the men leaving for war just opened up more opportunities, Japanese Americans were discriminated against when they just wanted to be Americans, and African Americans could go up in rank but still weren’t recognized by white officers. Almost everyone had an a new door open for them during the war and some even after the