Home Front Experiences: World War II
During World War Two, many people in the United States faced different homefront experiences. Some were treated very positively while others were treated very poorly. Some were looked a highly while others were looked at like they were like dirt. Some groups that faced different homefront experiences during World War Two include Jewish Americans, Japanese Americans, and many other groups. Jewish Americans and Japanese Americans faced two very different U.S. homefront experiences that included the way they were treated, viewed, and how they helped the recovery effort after the war. Even though the Jewish people in Europe were treated very harshly by the Nazi Party, you really couldn’t tell a difference in the American homefront. They were viewed indifferently as they were before the war as America tried to act like the Holocaust was not going on.They The way they helped the recovery effort after the war was to provide supplies for the European Jewish war prisoners after they were liberated from the German concentration camp. Japanese Americans were viewed much differently before the war then during and after the war. They were viewed as indifferently for some of the war. But after the Pearl Harbor bombing and the United States entering the war. They were sent to concentration camps that they were required to build themselves and were stripped of everything from identity to property.They were viewed like the Germans viewed the Jews.They tried to make it up to the U.S. by entering the military to show their patriotism and to earn back their citizenship. In conclusion, there were many different groups in the United States during World War Two. Some were treated very differently from each of the others. The Japanese Americans were treated like the Germans treated the Jews and Jewish Americans were treated as like the Holocaust never