Mobilisation at Home
The war ended the Depression
- The mass mobilisation of American society helped end the Great Depression, and the country's strong industrial base played a pivotal role in winning the war by equipping and provisioning allies and millions of U.S. troops.
- 7.10 said the New Deal did not end the Depression; this says mobilisation helped end it — the two sentences fit together exactly.
- Equipping and provisioning allies is a distinct contribution from fighting, and the CED names it first.
The CED says mass mobilisation...
It fits exactly with 7.10's verdict on the New Deal.
Opportunities, for the war's duration
- Mobilisation provided opportunities for women and minorities to improve their socioeconomic positions for the war's duration, while also leading to debates over racial segregation.
- For the war's duration is the crucial qualifier — the CED does not claim the gains were permanent.
- And the same mobilisation led to debates over racial segregation, so opportunity and argument arrived together.
Opportunities for women and minorities were for the war's ____.
The CED does not claim the gains were permanent.
And civil liberties were challenged
- Wartime experiences also generated challenges to civil liberties, such as the internment of Japanese Americans.
- The CED names the example directly, and places it in the same sentence as the wartime experience that produced it.
- 7.6's Red Scare is the earlier instance of the same pattern: emergency conditions producing restrictions on rights.
An economic effect, a social opportunity, or a challenge to rights?
Sort each element of wartime mobilisation.
The CED's named challenge to civil liberties is...
7.6's Red Scare is the earlier instance of the same pattern.
"For the war's duration" is the CED's own limit on the gains. Mobilisation provided opportunities for women and minorities for the war's duration — the CED does not claim they were permanent, and it puts the resulting debates over racial segregation in the same sentence.
Migration from Mexico increased...
The CED names the inconsistency rather than smoothing it.
Migration from the hemisphere
- Migration to the United States from Mexico and elsewhere in the Western Hemisphere increased, in spite of contradictory government policies toward Mexican immigration.
- In spite of contradictory government policies — the CED names the inconsistency rather than smoothing it.
- So labour demand pulled people in while policy pushed in two directions at once, which is a pattern worth stating plainly.
Select both contributions the strong industrial base made.
The first is a distinct contribution from fighting.
How and why the war transformed society
- The objective is how and why U.S. participation in World War II transformed American society.
- Economic: mass mobilisation ended the Depression and equipped the alliance.
- Social: opportunities for women and minorities for the war's duration, debates over segregation, internment, and increased hemispheric migration.
Open a job to someone because you urgently need it filled and you have proved they can do it. Close it again when the emergency ends and you have created an argument you cannot win on the old terms.
The mass mobilisation of American society helped end the Great Depression, and the country's strong industrial base played a pivotal role in winning the war by equipping and provisioning allies and millions of U.S. troops. Mobilisation provided opportunities for women and minorities to improve their socioeconomic positions for the war's duration, while also leading to debates over racial segregation. Wartime experiences also generated challenges to civil liberties, such as the internment of Japanese Americans. Migration to the United States from Mexico and elsewhere in the Western Hemisphere increased, in spite of contradictory government policies.