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During the Second World War, “the United States needed to enlarge its armed forces” (http://www.ushistory.org/us/51b.asp). With this need to enlarge our nation’s armed forces, the United States turned to the War Powers Act within but a week of the attacks on Pearl Harbor. This Act granted “wide authority to the President to conduct the war effort” (http://www.ushistory.org/us/51b.asp). As new war efforts were made, the lives of many groups were affected, and thus several of these groups began to live through new experiences. The online textbook states, “About 6.5 million females entered the work force during the war years, many for the first time. African Americans continued the Great Migration northward, filling vacated factory jobs. Mexican Americans were courted to cross the border to assist with the harvest season in the Bracero Guest-Worker Program…” (http://www.ushistory.org/us/51b.asp). Females entered the workforce, as the extra work was needed in order to be able to achieve the various war efforts desired. African American individuals sought out factory jobs during this time, and went north to do so. One aspect of the home-front experiences of women involves the Rosie the Riveter posters. These posters “beckoned housewives to leave the home and enter the nation’s factories” (http://www.ushistory.org/us/51b.asp). Rosie the Riveter was a symbol of power and inspiration for women, and was important in the call for women to join the war efforts as well as being an existing symbol of the contributions women had already made to the war effort.
Works Cited
ushistory.org. “The American Homefront.” Ushistory.org, Independence Hall Association, http://www.ushistory.org/us/51b.asp.
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