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What was the effect of war on US culture and society

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World War II had important effects on the post-war American society. In the first place, it contributed to women´s emancipation and opened the gates to their full integration into the workforce; some six million American women took factory jobs during the war as men were in the battle fronts. Likewise, many African-Americans moved from towns and villages to the industrial centers and took job opportunities in factories producing for the war effort.

WWII brought about an era of prosperity for the American economy, generally.

Another major effect was the labor shortage in agriculture. This led the F.D. Roosevelt administration to start a program allowing Mexican workers to temporarily immigrate to the U.S. to work in farms and ranches. It was called the Bracero Program.

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