Social_Imact_Of_WWII

Social Imact Of WWII The war had a major impact on the American people. Everyone felt effects whether they were Hispanic, African, Japanese or otherwise. No matter who they were or where they were from more than likely not only were they effected but they were also discriminated against. Japanese Americans suffered official discrimination during the war. In late 1941, they were a tiny minority in the United States, numbering only 127,000 (about 0.1 percent of the entire population). Most lived on the West Coast, where racial prejudice against them was strong. About two thirds of Japanese Americans had been born in the United States. Although they were native-born citizens, they still often met hostility from their white neighbors. Hostility grew into hatred and hysteria after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Rumors flew about sabotage on the West Coast. The press increased people's fears with inaccurate reports carrying headlines such as “Jap Boat Flashes Message Ashore” and “Japanese Here Sent Vital Data to Tokyo.” Such reports left Americans feeling that Japanese spies were everywhere. African Americans had struggled for decades to end discrimination. Yet the Jim Crow system still endured in the South, and African Americans in the North faced unofficial discrimination in employment, education, and americans, war, work, united, states, new, native, mexican, japanese, discrimination, african, about, joined, jobs, citizens, american, working, worked, white, west, wartime, shipyards, sense, reports, otherwise, others, often, mexicans, lived, life, industries, hostility, forces, faced, experienced, end