Essay: How World War II Changed America

World War II changed the world as a whole, but in this essay I am going to talk about how it changed America. After the war, many groups and organizations were created. The United Nations was born on October 24, 1945. This was a group meant to keep peace between nations. Tensions were still high between the United States and the Soviet Union after the war. Nevertheless, things were booming like never before here in our home country. With equal rights for women and African Americans, economic growth, and anti- war organizations became pro- war after Pearl Harbor. These are the ways I am going to discuss to you how World War Two changed our great country.

During the war, men were off fighting for America, and the women were left behind to take over their jobs in the factories. Women proved that they can do almost all of the same jobs as men. Rosie the Riveter, a picture of a woman flexing with a caption of “We Can Do It,” became the symbol for women all across the nation. After the war, years later, women began to receive equal pay for the same jobs that the men were doing. Many other minority groups, such as African Americans, played a huge

role as well. However, they did not get the respect that they deserved. While in war times parades and parties were held, but the African Americans always had to march behind the white soldiers. There were approximately 125,000 African American soldiers fighting overseas during WWII. During the fighting of the war, the White and Black barracks and regimes were segregated. However, three units of African Americans changed this for all American soldiers. The Tuskegee army, the 761st tank Battalion, and the 452 AAA Battalion. In July of 1948 President Harry Truman released executive order 9981, which desegregated the US military.
Economic growth greatly increased. America made a bulk of money off of the war, and they could afford to create many new inventions and pay for the necessary supplies. For example, the atomic bomb came about. America is the only country ever to use nuclear weapons to kill anyone. America did this with the help of the billions of dollars we were bringing in. America used an atomic bomb on the empire of Japan because Japan brought America into a war that the US didn't even want to fight, and they killed approximately 2,400 people. When the US dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, they killed approximately 145,000 people. Many of the northern cities such as New York, Chicago, and Pittsburgh also began to grow.
Many Americans didn’t want to fight in the war, they thought that it would be a bad idea to get involved in a war that did not affect the US.

Famous people, such as Charles Lindbergh and Henry Ford, actually opposed the war until the bombing of Pearl Harbor. After this event everyone in the world knew that America would get involved. Japan bombed Pearl Harbor so that it could bring America to its knees. Many groups were created to oppose the joining of World War II. The main one of these resistance groups was called the American First Movement. Its main speakers were Charles Lindbergh and Henry Ford, who preached that it was not a good idea to get involved in a war so shortly after our depression. Charles Lindbergh went to Germany and inspected their air force and thought that America did not have a chance to win this

war.
America was changed in WWII in both good ways and bad. For me, I think that America was changed in a good way because of our booming economy and the growing rights of women. World War Two proved that women could do almost anything that a man could, and women are receiving more rights daily. The only bad things that came out of WWII was the mass amounts of onslaughts of our American soldiers.