The people of the United States were not paying much attention to anything that was happening in Europe because we were struggling to get back up on our feet. The Great Depression set most of us back very far, and we were much more focused on trying to fix the fragile economy than on playing the role of world police.
On June 22, 1941, Germany tried to invade Russia. The German troops were not prepared for the harsh environment that they were going into, and the battle of Stalingrad led to the rejection of the German invasion. The Axis forces pushed the Soviets back, but when the Soviets launched Operation Uranus, the Axis troops were surrounded. Fighting continued until the Axis troops ran out of supplies.
The leader of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, (a black labor union), Asa Philip Randolph threatened a March on Washington if factories didn't stop hiring white people over black people. President Hoover didn't want riots to break out, so he issued an executive order that put the Committee on Fair Employment in place on June 25, 1941, which banned discrimination in defensive industries.
When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the people of the U.S. were in shock. The citizens started to get angry at Japan for attacking us, which led to us realizing that we needed to intervene in Europe. We entered the war on December 7, 1941. There was a widespread fear that any Japanese immigrants could be spies for Japan. Roosevelt ordered the opening of the Japanese internment camps, where many Japanese immigrants were brought and kept under watch.
Many people were drafted into the army, and there wasn't much they could do about it. Men from ages 21 to 45 were required to register for the draft, which would leave many families without a man in the household. Many women started to work in factories in the positions that the men had left when they were drafted.
Roosevelt put the War Production Board into place in January of 1942, and he set what seemed to be crazy goals for the American people to reach. He wanted to build 60,000 aircraft in 1942 and to reach 125,000 by the end of 1943. He also wanted to make 120,000 tanks and 55,000 anti-aircraft guns within those two years. These programs put many Americans to work, which helped to further stabilize the economy after the Great Depression.
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The people of the United States were not paying much attention to anything that was happening in Europe because we were struggling to get back up on our feet. The Great Depression set most of us back very far, and we were much more focused on trying to fix the fragile economy than on playing the role of world police.
On June 22, 1941, Germany tried to invade Russia. The German troops were not prepared for the harsh environment that they were going into, and the battle of Stalingrad led to the rejection of the German invasion. The Axis forces pushed the Soviets back, but when the Soviets launched Operation Uranus, the Axis troops were surrounded. Fighting continued until the Axis troops ran out of supplies.
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