Why Did African Americans Enter Ww2

Death, anger, and fear, the world was filled with all of these emotions during 1939. This conflict was due to the second world war caused by hitler’s invasion of poland. Hitler believed in and was obsessed with the idea of “Pure” german race which he called the Aryans. He believe it was no way to accomplish this domination but to kill others. This tragic war caused nearly 50 million deaths and affected America politically, economically, and socially. America had no plans on getting involved with the war until December 7, 1941, when japanese aircrafts attacked a U.S naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. This sneaky attack took the lives of more than 2,300 soldiers causing America to enter WWII. America entered the war still broken from the Great Depression and WW1, during this time Franklin D Roosevelt was the president. Roosevelt was taking his “new deal” policy
The women began to work as lumberjacks, mechanics, and railway workers, nearly 300,000 of them joined the armed forces serving as medical workers and some were even spies. When African Americans stepped up to joined the military the Marines wouldn't accept them and the Navy used them as servants. The Army was the only branch that really accepted them as soldiers. They were still segregated by the black regiments that were created, these regiments were still commanded mostly by white officers. The Red Cross would even segregated the blood plasma. When they came back home from fighting in the war they expected to have some more civil rights but it was denied, they were treated just the same even after fighting for our country with pride. It took many years for people to realize that everyone is just the same and no one is different just because of how they look. With this realization president Truman ended segregation in the armed forces (1948) and made them come together as