ose rapidlyas job earnings decreased rapidly, thrusting families into severe economic hardship,unrepeatable in Americas history. So, as with any abnormal circumstance, humanscompensated. People became fanatical financial savers. Every cent was spend on the barenecessities of life. Only a few had the money to spend on superfluous items (Raasch). World War II brought Americans out of the great depression. From the dusty dirtbowl to the ravaging meat grinders euphemistically called the frontlines, trudged a line ofyoung soldiers dripping with ideas and courage, both of which would be brutally tested.At home women entered the work force to support their sons and husbands across seas.With posters like Rosie the Riviter spurring on the hardworking proponents at home,women diligently assembled much of the machinery that eventually made its way over toEurope (Raasch). These women began to accumulate money, but were unable andunwilling to spend it, due to war shortages and conservation of popular goods and theideals inevitably left over from the Great Depression. Instead, families across the UnitedStates began to accumulate savings (Raasch). World War Two revitalized the American economy. Removed geographically fromthe hell overseas and the years of painful rehabilitation of the landscapes, political systems,and economies, the war scarred United States plunged lustfully into work. Factoriesproliferated like fruit flies across the country, and citizens trailed the growth, pushingAmerica into the most powerful economic force in the world (Raasch). Financial security allowed women for the first time in several decades to stay home andraise the family planned during the hardship. Women could and did stay home with kidsduring that decade--the resources existed for this. Women also found that with the returnof the men, most jobs were replaced by men. Women did not yet have the social backingto continue in the typical male dominated jobs (Raasch). So f...
