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2. Economic Gains
The war years were good economically, unemployment fell, weekly pay rose, and people were able to save for the future.
Farmers also were able to make a profit during the war years, and most were able to pay off their debts by the end of the war.
Women also made gains, taking on jobs once associated only with men.

3. Population Shifts
More than a million newcomers poured into California between 1941 to 1944.
Record numbers of African Americans moved from the South to cities in the North for job opportunities.
The urban regions saw an increase in their populaitons.

4. Social Adjustments
Many children were raised by the members in the neighborhood, since mothers were working and fathers were in the armed services.
Many rushed to get married before the soldiers or sailors left to go to war.
GI Bill of Rights provided education, training, and loans to buy houses for veterans. This was paid for by the Federal Government.

6. Civil Rights Protests
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) – founded by James Farmer, it was an interracial organization used to confront urban segregation in the North.
Tensions rose in Northern cities because of overpopulation, and in 1943 there was a wave of racial violence including a 3 day riot in Detroit ending in 9 whites and 25 blacks dead.

8. Tensions In Los Angeles
1943- “Zoot Suit” Riots – 11 sailors in Los Angeles reported that they were attacked by Zoot-Suit wearing Mexican Americans.
This caused thousands of servicemen for a week to pour into Mexican neighborhoods and rip off the victims clothes and physically harmed these people by using violence.

10. Internment
-The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor stunned the nation and left people in fear and having rumors spread that Japanese Americans were going to commit sabotage to the West Coast industries.
Jan 1942 – called for confinement of 1,444 Japanese Americans in Hawaii
Feb FDR signed a bill for 110,000 Japanese Americans to be shipped to “relocation centers”.
Families were forced to sell their homes, businesses, and all of their belongings.

14. Korematsu v. US
In the Supreme Court agreed that the policy of evacuating Japanese Americans was justified on the basis of “military necessity.”
After the war the Japanese American Citizens League pushed for compensation for those sent to the camps.
Not until 1990, were checks for $20,000 sent to every person with a letter from George Bush apologizing for the injustice