Sunday, February 5, 2017
Homefront / Soldiers' Morale
For my research paper, I looked at the psyche of American soldiers as well as Americans at home. From my research, I concluded that the second world war, despite its horrors, was able to unite Americans and lift the country out of its depression into prosperity and a higher sense of national pride. Before the war, the country was suffering a depression, but it emerged as one of the most powerful countries in the world. In the home front, Americans became united and dedicated to the war effort because their common goal motivated them and they felt empowered to be a part of the group. Rationing was implemented, everyone worked to increase production, and everyone had a high sense of nationalism. There was a lot of racism, which came from this high sense of nationalism. Despite the drawbacks, the nationalism did manage to unite the country. Soldiers were traumatized from the war, but many of them returned having a new appreciation for America and all that it meant to be an American. They were proud to fight for their country and their fellow soldiers, despite how scared they were. Even though the war was awful, it did have the positive result for the United States of Uniting the country and making it stronger than ever.
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It also changed the social structure of the nation. It empowered women and gave unions more power. Science made great leaps through research on diseases and the power of atomic bombs.
ReplyDeleteI agree, even though many people were hurt in World War Two, there was also lots of progress that was made, and many people also had better lives in the long run thanks to World War Two. I think that despite all of the people who were harmed in American wars, in general, war has helped out the United States, another war that helped the United States was the civil war which freed the slaves.
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