By the time of World War II, women had every right to express and utilize their civic position. More than 300,000 of American women served in the US Armed Forces, and everyone else kept households and industrial objects. Homefront was no less important than the battlefield. Women sew uniform and sent provision to soldiers as it was the least they could do. At this time, General George Marshall had already supported the women’s service branch in the army, which gave women a full military status. Besides the Women’s Army Corps, women also joined Marine Corps and Airforce
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Propaganda follows any armed conflict in the world. Propaganda is a necessary condition to mobilize volunteers, lift the spirit of soldiers, and keep civil citizens under control. By 1941, the US already used propaganda in World War I. Back then, propaganda did not work quite as the federal government expected, and authorities decided just to release information for citizens. Nevertheless, businesses and government needed this propaganda, therefore, the federal government initiated the wartime call to action. Writing and distribution of propaganda were the tasks of special agencies. The largest of them were the Writers War Board and
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In the period of active investment and rampant economic growth, no one expected such a dramatic fall of the stock market. In the 1920s, its expansion caused a fierce speculation. Employment and production were high, which did not quite correspond with the actual demand. Large banks were in excess and they could not be liquidated. As soon as companies revealed that their shares did not cost as much as people had paid for them, investors withdrew. Some 16million shares were traded in a single day on October 29, 1929. From this point on, America ran into the Great
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After slavery had been abolished nationwide, the Harlem Renaissance became the greatest event in the African American history. It marked the appearance of the new urban African American culture that was born in the neighborhoods but quickly spread all over the US. Harlem was a formerly white neighborhood in New York City, but circumstances such as the Great Migration of the 1910-20s quickly changed that. By 1920s, Harlem housed about 200,000 African Americans. People migrated to North searching for better housing and employment opportunities. Abolition of slavery did not much improve conditions for African Americans in the South.
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After the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union exacerbated, Americans submerged in a kind of panic called the Red Scare. The threat that Communists posed to the US safety was unclear, and the government took all protection measures to remove the “Reds” from the US. Fear and repressions lasted up to the late 1950s. The point of the federal government was clear. Communists and leftists inside the US could act as Soviet spies. The USSR indeed had carried out espionage involving the US citizens, nevertheless, the checkouts and questionings often damaged lives and careers of innocent citizens.
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