Jobs were reserved for returning veterans. As many as 4 million women lost their jobs between 1944 and 1946. Americans experienced dramatic and unanticipated changes in the ways they worked and lived. In WWI rationing was mostly voluntary. But WWII was another matter.
Gasoline rationing begins.
A. Philip Randolph. March on Washington. Roosevelt responded in a lukewarm fashion. 1943 Clash between sailors and Mexican American teenagers. To many, the zoot suit signaled a lack of patriotism.