Social impact of the Second World War; impact on women and minorities; conscription

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Office of War Information

Government funded organization founded in 1942, to control the public perspective on the war

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Executive Order 8802

Bans discrimination in hiring practices in defence industry

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Fair Employment Practices Act

banned discrimination in any war related industry

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Top secret Rosies

women computers used to code SO MUCH for the military but got no credit

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National selective service regulations - canada

  • Ensured that agriculture workers didn’t leave the industry for a non-war essential job

  • Gave women the opportunity to find jobs in fields they otherwise wouldn’t have been

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National resource mobilization act - canada

Didn’t lead to conscription like in WW1 but instead had conscription on the home front, rather just home defence and service

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War measures act - canada

lead to japanese internment