Social+Effects+of+World+War+II


 * Soial Effects of World War II ||
 * In 1943, Congress imposed a withholding system on taxpayers. Federal income tax was withheld from workers' pay and sent directly to the U.S. Treasury. The number of taxpayers jumped from 4 million in 1939 to 42.7 million in 1945. ||
 * In 1944, Congress passed the Serviceman's Readjustment Act. The G.I. Bill, as it was called, made low-cost loans to veterans who wanted to buy homes or start businesses. ||
 * The G.I. Bill also gave all returning soldiers an oppertunity for a college education, which, in turn, changed job availability and heralded a new working middle class. ||
 * Radical segregation was no longer acceptable to returning African American soldiers ||
 * Women who had experienced a new sense of freedom and independace were not ready to leave the workplace and return to the homemaker roles that had been their only option before the war. And, new inventions were releasing women from many of the time-consuming "homemaking" responsibilities. ||