World War Two Argumentative Essay

The word ‘catalyst’ usually refers to something that speed’s up a reaction, or speeds up change. World War two was one of the most important events the world has ever seen, America was involved in this. At the time of World War two people who weren’t white Americans living there were always treated with disrespect. I think that World War two did act as a catalyst for change with regard to race relations and civil rights in the United States because people who weren’t white Americans served their country even though they weren’t always appreciated, The War meant more black people got jobs (according to figures around seven million) and I believe the civil rights movement came around more quickly because of the War.
After the outbreak of World War 2, Philip Randolph (A leading black American union leader) tried to make the military a fairer place for black people to work in. This was left unanswered and was the most likely cause for the Executive Order 8802 which helped with job discrimination in war mobilisation. Owing to this order million’s more black people then found jobs, about a million of these getting jobs in the military. Even though there was still segregation in some of the military sections (for example they had all-black units for black soldiers and Marine
into a more enlightened attitude towards one tenth of its people’ they were basically saying that the whole Nazi idea of having a perfect community without certain people with religious or ethnic beliefs would maybe let people of America see that being discriminative to black people was in ways like the Nazi’s because they were treated so bad that they saw a connection with America wanting them to be taken out and not treated fairly. In Southern States of America such as Alabama and Mississippi this was particularly an