Americas in the world — domestic impact of the World Wars

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US federal agency that directed factories to prioritize war production during WWI.

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Wartime laws criminalizing criticism of the war or draft; over 2,000 people prosecuted, feeding the later Red Scare.

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Gave American women the right to vote; wartime service strengthened the suffrage campaign's final push.

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Wartime labor demand pulled hundreds of thousands of African Americans from the rural South to Northern industrial cities.

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Wave of violent race riots across more than 20 US cities as returning veterans and new Black migrants competed for jobs and housing.

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Agency that redirected US industry (e.g., car factories) toward tanks, planes, and war supplies; nearly doubled GDP by 1945.

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Iconic image representing the roughly 6 million American women who entered the workforce, many in heavy industry, during WWII.

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Authorized forced removal of about 120,000 Japanese Americans (two-thirds US citizens) into internment camps with no evidence of disloyalty.

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WWII-era African American press campaign demanding victory over fascism abroad AND racism at home.

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WWII guest-worker program bringing Mexican laborers into the US to fill wartime agricultural and industrial labor shortages.

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Both wars pulled women into factory/clerical work in large numbers, but gains were largely reversed once veterans returned in both cases.

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Both wars relied on marginalized groups' labor without granting equality; WWII's internment shows the injustice could get worse, not just stay the same.