Post for March 3
You have read the three articles about the Home Front, Role of Women, and Japanese Internment camps. I would like you to write an response to the following question(s)...choose one of the three options. What ever option that you choose, you will need to back it up with at least three examples from the readings.
- How did the role of women change after World War II? Has this change been a good change for society?
- The Japanese Internment was a blight on the rights of Japanese Americans. Was the United States justified in putting these people in camps, or was this just a big mistake?
- How did life change for the American public? Do you feel that this change unified Americans, or only made the division between male, female, and Japanese Americans much more divided?
You have read the three articles about the Home Front, Role of Women, and Japanese Internment camps. I would like you to write an response to the following question(s)...choose one of the three options. What ever option that you choose, you will need to back it up with at least three examples from the readings. 
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ReplyDeleteDuring World War II the women had the jobs men would usually have, like driving trucks and repairing airplanes. After the war, most women lost their jobs again. After getting fired they still had to take care of the kids and the house, and after working on airplanes and other war stuff, women were not used to that. During and after World War II, Americans began to see that not only men can work, also women. Women started to be more equal to men. It has been a good change in society because women and men are equal.
- Jocelin
The role of women changed after WWII because during the war all the men were over fighting in the war and the men needed supplies. To make supplies for all the men the women were then in charge of building all the ammunition, cars, planes, boats etc. Before the war a normal women role was to take care of the house, but since they now had to do all the tough manual labor it changed their role in society. Even after the war when all the men came home the women kept a lot of the jobs that the men used to do because they were looked at as equals, rather than just a housewife.
ReplyDelete-Zach
How did the role of women change after WWII? Has this change been a good change for society?
ReplyDeleteAfter the war ended, many women were forced out of their jobs, usually against their will. During the war, their jobs gave them a purpose and they liked that. Some of this feeling of being needed was due to the heavy use of propaganda at the time. After the war, one of two things happened to most of the US’s employed women; they were either let go so the men returning home could have their jobs back, or their job no longer existed because war materials and supplies weren’t in demand any more. And it wasn’t just the women in the work force that were effected. Women who had served in the war had tough times getting benefits from programs aimed towards veterans. Overall, after the war, the country was treating women like it had before the war. It would take many more years for the view of women to change from their. I believe that the change in society after the war was not a positive one.
Alec L.
1.The roll for women changed drastically. Women were forced out of their jobs even though when surveyed they said they wanted to keep their jobs. When women went to try to get benefits they often ran into problems "roadblocks". The change has been good because women are now allowed to work as they please. Kyle R
ReplyDelete2. I believe that it was a big mistake because the Japanese Americans had nothing to do with the attack on pearl harbor, who were interned at the camp in Hawaii. All it showed was the fact that the war department was paranoid that all of the Japanese who were in America at the time were sleeper agents. Also the war department believed it to be a mistake also because they paid $20,000 to each internee after the fact in 1988. Though through the war they did somewhat give back the rights to the men and let them fight in the European theatre. At the time it would have seem justified with FDR signing order 9066 (the order that gave the War Department the authority to declare any part of the country a restricted military area), and basically the Japanese Americans were kept off of the west coast. Obviously sending the Japanese Americans to internment camps breached their civil rights, so to a public view yes it was a big mistake for the government to do that, so that is why they probably gave money to all of the surviving internees. Also they were put into basically prison camps in isolated parts of the country run by the military. Thus another mistake it put into the U.S. history books.
ReplyDelete- Adam
I think that the war changed the public.It made America more unified because everyone was working for the same goal. All the men went to war to fight, while the women stayed home and took over the jobs in the factories and war material. Americans joined the cause by taking the ration serving they were given. They recycled cans and tires for the war. Toy companies stopped making toys and started making composes, and Ford motor compony didn't make cars it made tanks and bombers. The change made the country stand and work together to beat the Nazi's.
ReplyDelete2. Gus
ReplyDeleteThe Internment Camps were unjust and racist of the American government. Although it is understandable why the government put them into place, I feel as though this is incredibly shallow of us. It would be difficult to argue that this act of racism was anything but unjustified. The internment camps put America in a negative light considering our tremendous pride in diversity. The 20,00 dollar compensation doesn’t make up for forcefully moving entire families to camps and keeping there for many years.
Before WWII women cooked and took care of the house, not many women worked in the same style as men did. During WWII women worked on cars and planes preparing stuff for war which was kind of unheard of until the day it started happening. After world War II women went back to their daily jobs before WWII like cooking for their husband and taking care of the house, but the experience stayed, today women are police officers and do the same jobs males do. Which is good now we have more people capable of doing jobs that only males could do before, it has just taken a few decades for women to start working in the automotive, ammunition, and jobs like that again.
ReplyDelete-Jack B
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Delete2. I don't think the united states was justified in doing what they did. i understand that they were scared and just wanted to be safe, but that doesn't mean that they should lock every japanese american in prison. Some of the men in the camps even volunteered to fight for the united states in the 442nd infantry regimental combat team which became one of the most highly decorated units of WWII. And we lost money on this whole thing to because we paid every surviving internee $20,000. anyway you look at it it just wasn't a good thing.
ReplyDelete-Jordan S.
1.Women started taking over jobs typically for men because of WWI. Nearly 350,00 women served in women’s military and navy corps. Women had to take office and secretarial jobs during the war. This allowed men to be able to fight in the war. General Eisenhower himself felt like he couldn’t do without the help of those women. Unfortunately when the war ended most of the men were given back their jobs. Even though women had to go back to their usual roles many realized that they could do everything a man can do. Women then longed for equality rights.
ReplyDelete-Nallely
After world war II was over the men came back and the jobs were given back to them, not really to the women's choice but because of their true place in society. It could be argued that it was a good change and a bad change. Its been a good change because women don't have to juggle raising a family with creating war reparations and can have more focus on being a "housewife" and "mom" for their families, or the mother that children need . Then again it can be considered a bad change because it shows that social equality has not yet fully taken place in America. It makes some uncomfortable to see the traditional men in fields and women in the house structure slowly become challenged. The place that women have in society today doesn't show how hard-working they can be, almost causing society to look past them when times get hard.
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