The World War II Era



The World War II Era

Question 1

The Second World War, or World War II, was the war that occurred across many nations of the world from 1939 to 1945. There were a lot of powerful nations engaged in this war and ended up forming two opposing military alliances: the Axis and the Allies. This war was most widespread in the global history, and had over 100 million people rendering their services on different units of military from more than 30 different countries. In such a condition of complete war, the prominent participants had put their complete capabilities of industry, economy, and scientific resources at the stake of war, which ultimately eliminated any possible distinction between military and civilian resources (Bluenose, Martin, 1972).

During the course of World War II, the US military was desegregated to the maximum extent. Majority of the white people were placed on the rank of officers while, the black troops kept serving as merely stevedores and truck driver. The African-American truck drivers had operated the Red Ball Express and due to such segregation, and there was an extreme shortage of the replacement troops in the military units led by Dwight D. Eisenhower. Since the troops mainly composed of white people only, so there were not many officers left to fight in such segregated military unit. Consequently, the decision was taken to permit the African American soldiers to join the units of white military units and pick up the weapons to fight alongside white people for the first time (Barnes, Catherine, 1983). As a result, the black soldiers, over 2,000 in number, had volunteered to get the front positions in the military making it as one of the significant step toward the desegregation of the military of United States.

Question #2

The Cold War had strong impacts on the African American Civil Rights movement. During the rage of the Cold War, it was the African Americans who begin struggling in order to gain equal status and right as of white men in the United States. Subsequent to the outcomes of World War II, there were a large number of whites and the African Americans that had united with each other for the purpose of protesting giants the discrimination and racism that had prevailed in the United States for a long time (George, 1986).

Many years prior to the World War II, there were few ...