How Did Ww2 Affect America Today

The official end of World War 2 was in 1945, after the end of the war the United States emerged as a world super power. With the American mindset of being on top, the government became more confident in its abilities and started to get more involved with American lives. Also getting more involved in the American economy. Then an unexpected change within America was taking place. Minority groups within America started to gain a leeway within social equality. Whether these changes were for better or worse, the government involvement in American life then shaped how America is today.
Now with WW2 officially over, America could focus more of its attention on the lives of the American people, or the only other superpower threat USSR. The involvement
economy. In 1947, republican controlled congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act. This act outlawed the ‘closed’ all union shop, made unions liable for damages that resulted from jurisdictional disputes among themselves, and required union leaders to take a noncommunist oath. This act affectively struck down all the gains of labor unions during the time of the New Deal with president FDR. The government also got into promoting the employment of America. The Employment Act of 1946, promoted maximum employment, production, and purchasing power. This led to employment of a 3 membered council of Economic advisors. They also led to the GI Bill which was meant to prevent the 15 million returning veterans from flooding the job market. To accomplish this goal the bill let veterans go to college for free. The increasing education of the United States would later affect the economy of the U.S. in the future by putting more people into the jobs of science, engineering, and other technical jobs. The U.S. also started to effect the control of other world economies. America initiated the Marshall Plan in 1947, America planned to spend 12.5 billion dollars over four years to 16 countries. The plan was an economic success and soon many countries were outputting into the world economy. The influence of America into the economy was rather successful because of the revival of the world trade and internal improvements for education
Although after the events of World War 2 minority groups started to gain a foothold for social equality. To start off the increase in minorities is the massive migration of immigrants into more rural places of America. The states that experienced the most population growth are called the sun-belt. This resulted in white Americans moving out of the cities and into the suburbs. With the majorities moving out, of the inner cities the minorities now took over the inner cities. Another minority group, women started their own movement for more equality. Women were now getting used to having more freedom because they were allowed to serve in the military and participate in a wide variety of jobs. Betty Friedan provided the fuel and focus to the women’s movement. Her book The Feminine Mystique fuel educated women and challenged the old order of domesticity that meant to keep women in house. Another minority movement began with the Montgomery bus boycott which was a protest against current segregation laws. This started a black equality movement led by Martin Luther King Jr. He started the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957. It aimed to mobilize the vast power of the black churches on behave of black rights. Martin Luther King Jr.’s strategy was a great one because the black churches were the most organized of the black societies. With the movement of whites to suburbs and