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Jewish Americans: Jordan Knopp · 0.6 percent of the nation's 93,000 commercial bankers in 1939 were Jewish · As anti-Semitism was fairly widespread in the U.S, a sentiment which reduced the inclination of Americans to help the Jews in Europe · The US refused to support Jewish immigration, so any Jews coming in were illegal. · Many Jews were physicists were part of the Manhattan Project and helped design the Atomic Bomb. · Jobs for Jews were hard to come by · Anti Semitism in America declined after the war ended. Japanese Americans on The Homefront

people were so scared of the Japanese that Silk stockings made in Japan were not available on the market in America.

Wartime restrictions were imposed on civil liberties with Executive Order 9066. This ordered those of Japanese-American descent to be removed to "Relocation Camps." This law eventually forced close to 120,000 Japanese-Americans in the western part of the United States to leave their homes and move to relocation centers or to other facilities across the nation. Most of those relocated were American citizens by birth. They were forced to sell their homes, most for next to nothing, and take only what they could carry.

In 1988, congress signed the Civil Liberties Act that provided living survivor with $20,000 for the forced incarceration. In 1989 congress issued a formal apology.

Overnight, President Roosevelt issued an order Executive Order 9066 that forced over 110,000 Japanese Americans to leave their homes in California, Washington, and Oregon and live in detention camps in desolate parts of the United States.

Two-thirds had been born in the United States, and more than 70 percent of the people forced into camps were American citizens.

Roosevelt's action was supported by Congress without a single vote against it, and was upheld as constitutional by the Supreme Court

The barracks themselves had no running water and little heat. There was almost no privacy, and everyone had to use public bathrooms.

The camps were so poorly run that riots would occur between the guards and imates Emmanuel George

Women in WWII

Many women went into factory work because it was in the time of war and they needed to take over the men’s jobs. Most of them made bullets, uniforms, and airplanes. They worked long hard hours and some had to move away closer to the factories because they worked long. They did not receiver a lot of pay because they were women. Some women went on strike because they were not getting enough money to live on. They finally got to get the amount of pay as a semi-skilled worker.

They promoted the fictional character of “Rosie the Riveter” as the ideal woman worker: loyal, efficient, patriotic, and pretty (Yellin 43). A song, “Rosie the Riveter”, became very popular in 1942. Norman Rockwell’s image on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post on May 29, 1943 was the first widely publicized pictorial representation of the new “Rosie the Riveter”. This led to many other “Rosie” images and women to represent that image. For example, the media found Rose Hicker of Eastern Aircraft Company in Tarrytown, New York and pictured her with her partner as they drove in a record number of rivets into the wing of a Grumman “Avenger” Bomber on June 8, 1943. Rose was an instant media success (Dabakis 183). In many other locations and situations around the country, “Rosies” were found and used in the propaganda effort. A few months after Rockwell’s image, the most famous image of Rosie appeared in the government-commissioned poster “We Can Do It” (Yellin 44). Stephanie Stein

__African Americans and Minorities__ Only whites got military benefits after the war

While this was a wonderful opportunity for white and some light-skinned Latino soldiers, many minority veterans were excluded from the process due to long-standing racial discrimination. This two-tiered treatment of America's veterans was reinforced by the Federal Housing Administration, which offered builders low-cost loans to build homes for veterans while at the same time encouraging them to include restrictive racial covenants into the deeds of their properties. DJ Cuite