World war II began as a military disagreement in Europe in September of 1939 however spread throughout the world in the following years, with much of the war in Europe, Southeast Asia and the Pacific. The war in Europe came to an end in the summer of 1945 and the war in the pacific came to an end when Japan surrendered in September of 1945, with a projected 50 million people who lost their lives throughout the war. The years succeeding World War II is considered a period of social and economic development, America had won the war and was on its way to being a supremely confident world power. At this time, the difficulties coming from proceeding years of the war were swapped with higher standards of living, growing opportunities for all, and a developing American culture confident of its place in the world. Little did America know that the war was an influential tool that brought about substantial social and economic transformations, such as the end of the Great Depression, the beginning of the Women's Movement, and the start of other race movements. Despite all of these positive social and economic changes, there was still apprehension due to the Cold war.
War is a powerful instrument of both social and economic change. When World War II ended in 1945, life in the United States started to return to normal. Soldiers began to come home and discover peacetime occupations. Industry stopped manufacturing war equipment and started the production of goods that would make peacetime life enjoyable. The American economy was now at its strongest point. The 1950s are closely connected with the rise of suburban living. The most famous suburban track housing in Levittown, New York opened its office in March 1949 and experienced instantane...
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...adio and Television, whose purpose was to uncover the most significant pieces of Communist endeavors in America every week. The document “included an alphabetical list of 151 people in the radio and television business along with “citations” of their involvement in various suspect organizations” (238). Consequently, almost all those on the list lost their jobs and were unable to get new employment within the industry.
Society is a very complex system. One that change in one part produces changes elsewhere, thus being hard to predict. Despite the damage, death, and devastation, World War II brought out many great changes in society. The war finally ended the Depression and employment opportunities grew profoundly, for minorities, such as African Americans and women. The invention of the automobile made it easy and available for those who had never traveled much.
After the end of World War II, the United States went through many changes. Most of the changes were for the better, but some had an adverse effect on certain population centers. Many programs, agencies and policies were created to transform American society and government.
Overall, I believe that the war was responsible for impacting four main social attitudes – the morale of the public, the class barriers, the crime rate and the status of women. Even though society attempted to go back to normal after the war, it could not go back completely. People had seen women work, they had felt what it was like to work together with the community, and although it took years and years after the war for it to happen, attitudes eventually changed for the better. The war, just happened to instigate this transformation of the views of society.
Another significant element to the 1950’s was the economy, creating a generation of materialism. The economy was thriving because the government had put
The American home front during World War II is recalled warmly in popular memory and cultural myth as a time of unprecedented national unity, years in which Americans stuck together in common cause. World War II brought many new ideas and changes to American life. Even though World War II brought no physical destruction to the United States mainland, it did affect American society. Every aspect of American life was altered by U.S. involvement in the war including demographics, the labor force, economics and cultural trends. During the Great Depression, the American birth rate had fallen to an all-time low due to delayed marriages and parenthood.
World War II, also known as the Second World War was fought by Japan, Germany and Italy, also referred to as the Axis powers; that went against the Allies that consisted of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Britain with help from others. 60 to 80 billion deaths were the result of World War II ("Reasons for American Entry Into WWII"). Initially the United States did not want to interfere with a war going on in a different continent. At the start of the war America began a state of isolationism which kept America away from the war; until its “breaking point”. America’s deviation from isolationism in World War II is what establishes them as a powerhouse country economically an. Also, how America’s growth industrially lead to a post-war boom.
On the heels of war, new technology caused a decrease in prices of goods in the 1920’s and in the 1950’s the GI Bill increased income. The bureaucratization of business in the 1920’s meant that more people could be employed in higher paying white-collar jobs than before, including, for the first time, housewives. This new income combined with the reduced prices for goods that resulted from mechanized production, assembly lines and a general decrease of the cost of technology created a thriving consumerist middle class that went on to fuel the economy in all sectors, especially the upper classes. Likewise, during World War II Americans saved up around 150 billion dollars, and this sum combined with the income of the GI Bill allowed normal people to buy expensive things, from houses to cars to electronics to educations at a rapid rate, fueling the trademark prosperity of the 1950’s. The new automobile culture of the 50’s spawned new businesses that catered to mobile Americans, such as nicer and more standardized hotels like Holiday Inn, and drive-up restaurants like McDonalds. Just as the culture of the 1920’s was transfo...
During the aftermath of World War I great change was happening to America’s society. Of the nations that were involved in the worldwide conflict from 1914 to 1918 no other nation experienced prosperity socially, politically, and economically as quickly as did the United States of America. The middle-class American suddenly became the most important component to the growth of the American economy. As the purchase of luxuries, the automobile in particular, became more available to middle-class, opportunity in the housing and labor industries expanded.
World War II was one of the biggest wars in history for the U.S. and the world. Our world was divided between two sides. Axis(Bad Guys) and Allies(Good Guys).The world was in turmoil for six straight years. However, technological advancements helped to ensure allied victory in World War II by helping to gain tactical advantages in combat and providing a sense of fear to the Axis forces.
Aside from national security interests domestic thirst for oil boomed. The war brought us out of the Great Depression. During the Depression a traditionally capitalist American society embraced a kind of socialism with the New Deal. WWII transformed the bear turned in a raging bull. Capitalism was back with a vengeance, charging forward stronger than it had ever been before. The heavy industry built up to sustain the war effort was retooled to meet the demands of the emerging consumerist culture of the 1950s. The new explosion of industrial output became so pervasive that the decade ended with President Eisenhower warning of the dangers of the growing “Military-Industrial Complex.”
During the years between 1920 and 1960, America saw change in many aspects of life. The United States was a part of two major wars and a crash of the banking system that crippled the economy greater than ever seen in this country’s history. Also the country had new insecurities to tackle such as immigration and poor treatment of workers. These events led to the change of America lives socially, economically, and politically. The people of America changed their ideas of what the country’s place in the world should be. The issues challenging America led the country to change from isolation to war, depression to prosperity, and social change. The threats to American way of life, foreign and domestic, were the changing forces to the country in the twenties to the sixties.
World War II was one of the deadliest wars we know of in history, with as many as sixty million casualties, most of whom were civilians. It impacted a lot of countries, almost all over the world, which is why the name is given. This war impacted many countries in the world, and damaged almost all of the countries involved greatly. It also led to the downfall of Western European countries as world powers, leaving it to the Soviet Union, and the United States. The war started in 1939 and ended in 1945, with the invasion of Poland and the Axis surrender, respectively.
World War II was significant for its unique causes and its major political impact on Europe. There were four main causes to why World War II started, some of which are the following: Treaty of Versailles, Hitler’s actions, failure of Appeasement, and the Failure of the League of Nations. World War II had a major impact on Europe Politically, which are the following: It caused Europe to have a weaker influence in the world, it caused Germany to split in half, the formation of the United Nations, and the division of Europe, between the Western nations and the communist Eastern bloc.
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.
America, like many other countries, has been in numerous wars. In the twentieth century America took part in many wars including the First and Second World Wars, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. America has been affected by each of these wars, some having positive effects and some having negative effects. Although America initially didn't want to be included in the war, they were eventually forced to become involved. After World War I, America experienced changes economically and industrially, politically, and in women's rights.
This specifically affected suburbanization and the middle class. Suburbanization was notedly derived from “several forces including the baby boom, government support for low-interest mortgages through the GI bill and the new system of interstate highway.” (I&J, p.43) Families could now enjoy each others company following the end of the war. The growth in population and suburban population ideally meant an increase in income per family and the American economy. Not only were jobs better for men, but the post war career fields demanded more employees, opening this up to women in the work force. Specifically, “over a third of American women were in the paid labor force by 1945.” (I&J, P.49) Furthermore, the rise of the middle class and the economy demanded an American culture which was surrounded by entertainment, new corporate restaurant chains, and Hollywood affiliations with the advancements of technology in the media industry. The shift to this mass culture followed the rise of the American middle class. Sports entertainment became very popular, Disney world quickly became a well known family attraction, and food chains quickly expanding across the united