World War 2

World War 2

After 7th December 1941, the United States was forced in to the World War when the Japanese attacked an American navy fleet unannounced at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. This dramatically changed everything in the United States. The new challenges of the war had to be met at any cost and fear ran throw the insides of all the people living in the country. Clothing, gas as well as food were rationed. The president of the United States feared that the fear that was spreading increasingly would break the spirits of the American people. Thus, a decent response was required of America. People were motivated to defend their homeland as well as their families and their children. The men were called to serve the national duty and mostly everyone was employed with arms to defend their countries. The spirits were high with a constant fear of losing the loved ones. While the men served as the physical force of the country, the women felt they needed to contribute as well. They took jobs such as welders, electricians and even riveters in the defense plants of the United States.

The fear of your home being attacked created such havoc that hatred for the Japanese was felt widely throughout the country. This was realized by the government. Unfortunately, the consequences had to be faced by the Japanese Americans who had been living in America since ages. Their rights as American citizens were stripped off of them and they suffered extensively. During the war, the people of the United States grew increasingly dependent on radio reports. This was also used as a form of communication but the majority relied on this because of the increasing tension that they might lose someone in the war. There were constant debates held between the people back home of how terrible could the consequences be. In addition to that, it was believed that if the Japanese could successfully attack the Pearl Harbor, which itself was a naval fleet, what would prevent them from attacking the cities and creating mass murder. However, this feeling of fear proved to be lucky for the people of the United States as it changed in to anger and the people became readily available to sacrifice their lives in the name of their country.

This fear acted as a motivation and anything or everything could have been sacrificed to save the homeland. Because the attack was spontaneous, the country was left with a shortage of supplies. Therefore, clothing and food were rationed and a limit was set. Ration cards were issued to the families to buy their necessities including oil as well as everything else. The people calmly accepted this proposition because a country wide campaign was launched notifying the people that if they consumed less, more would be available to the soldiers who have gone to risk their lives for the country. The feeling could be termed as even more motivating than any revolution. Since, men from almost every house took ...