When its time to chaaaaaaange

The Forties were a time of

drastic social change, both at
home and abroad. The years
immediately after WWII laid
the groundwork for what the
spacemen (and spacewomen) of
the future can recognize as the
modern era. The effects of
these changes were far-
reaching, and can still be seen
today.
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American attitudes at the end of the 1930s
Going into the 1940s, America didnt really want much to do with the rest of
the world. Its citizens were just coming off of a world war and the worst
economic crisis in history, so they werent much interested in throwing
themselves into another conflict they didnt have a real reason to join.
America was a firmly isolationist nation.
 Pearl Harbor and everything afterward
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor caused a dramatic increase in patriotism,
which itself caused a dramatic increase in young men joining the military- by the end
of the war, over twelve million men were away from home. The impacts that this
mass emigration had on society at home were profound and far-reaching.
 The military was the largest
Strides toward equality employer of minorities in the
United States, with 2.5 million
registered for the draft and
over a million on active duty.
While white and black soldiers
lived in segregated barracks,
they did not fight on segregated
battlefields. The involvement
of African-Americans in WWII
and pressure from the NAACP
caused FDR to sign Executive
Order 8802, which
desegregated the armed forces.
Strides toward equality pt. 2 (Electric Boogaloo?)

The women of America

stepped up during WWII as
the women of WWI did. They
filled the void in the
workforce left by the millions
of soldiers overseas. They
worked in factories, offices,
and on the home front, raising
funding and heading resource
drives.