Dbq Homefront Research Paper

The Homefront Experience When considering Americans in World War Two, many may think of a soldier going off to war, or a somehow-cheery family growing a victory garden. Other than that, most do not know much about who exactly was on the U.S. homefront. There are several groups that people tend to forget about when looking back on this time. Japanese Americans and Mexican Americans were two groups on the U.S. homefront that were quite separated from the rest of the country’s population, one in camps and the other working as temporary laborers, and though they also seemed different from each other, their experiences did have similarities. One U.S. minority group during World War Two was treated poorly and generalized as being a threat to the country: the Japanese Americans. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,
One is that both Japanese Americans and Mexican Americans were in generally substandard conditions throughout the war. Many Japanese Americans were in internment camps, living in barracks. Temporary Mexican workers were also in undesired conditions; living in “box car camps,” they had little contact with the rest of the the population, as well as little access to health care, translators, and legal aid (Doc. E). However, a major difference between these two situations is that while the bracero, were willing workers, the Japanese Americans in internment camps had been taken there due to no choice of their own. Nevertheless, both of these groups would have spent most of their time doing physical labor. While the work of the braceros helped to fill the labor shortage, directly helping the war effort, the members of internment camps worked to sustain themselves. The experiences of Japanese Americans and Mexican Americans was not the same, but it also was not vastly