How did different groups of Americans experience the war?
What will be an ideal response?
Women had opportunities to engage in new kinds of work, previously limited to men. Women married to soldiers, 16 million of whom already held jobs outside the home, were forced to care for their families alone.
African Americans organized to obtain fair hiring, wages, and working conditions. In response, their neighborhoods were destroyed by race riots while President Roosevelt prohibited discrimination in hiring by government agencies and military suppliers. African-American men were allowed to enlist and to fight in segregated units, while members of other racial groups fought side by side.
Persecution of Asian Americans increased but was primarily directed against Japanese, and non-Japanese Asians tried to distinguish themselves. Japanese Americans living in the West were imprisoned and their property confiscated. Later, Japanese-American men were recruited to fight in Europe.
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What will be an ideal response?
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