The United States during this epoch were capable of establishing themselves as a true world power. The United States has always isolated themselves from European affairs and tended to focus on themselves and build up their own infrastructure. World War II was the biggest leap into becoming involved with European and eastern hemisphere affairs. After World War II, which that led to over eighty million deaths, left the United States to thrive economically, socially, and politically. The World War helped lead to the civil rights movement, the women’s rights movement, and to technological advances. Women and African Americans were the most affect by this era and because of the post-war prosperity, it also led to drastic changes in United States …show more content…
Post World War II allowed African Americans to fight for equal rights because they were apart of the front line units that fought against the Axis Powers. Public figures such as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King allowed the fight for desegregation of schools, discrimination of job opportunities, and other social aspects to progress in the right direction. Campaigns such as the “Double V” promoted the idea of winning the war over seas as well as at home. Since the war provided a place for blacks and whites to essentially have the same authority overseas, civil rights activists wanted to fight for the same rights on the home front, as well as the war front. Private Charles F. Wilson of 33rd AAF Base Unit wrote to Franklin D. Roosevelt just after the war about how everyone is “fighting for ‘freedom, equality, and justice’ for ‘all persons, regardless of race, color, and creed” (Sheets pg. 620). Soldiers returning from the war found themselves fighting the same discrimination that they had experienced per-war era. Organizations such as the NAACP were taking action and started inducing peaceful protests such as sit-ins, boycotts, and freedom rides. Spanning from the 1950s-1960s, these activists fought for the rights that they deserved and the government finally enforced them in events such as the Little Rock Nine, which was a forcefully desegregated their public high school at a extremely racist town in …show more content…
Unites States citizens were unable to speak freely and were attacked by law enforcement if they did anything to harm the federal government or democracy itself. People were brought into question by McCarthy and the rest of the HUAC branch about their affiliations with communism and or the USSR. In an primary source Roy Cohn, the committee’s chief, interviews Charlotte Oram, a suspected communist member about the affiliation of Annie Lee Moss who worked in the pentagon as a communications clerk. Many investigations were left open ended as the interview was left open-ended because Mrs. Oram continued to say “I decline to answer that question” (Sheets pg.