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A United Homefront
Ethnic and nationalist conflicts throughout Europe before and during the Second World War offered the people of the United States an opportunity to redefine themselves as leaders on the world stage and at home. For many, the war was a time of confident patriotism and sacrifice.
However, while some social barriers briefly disappeared, the war was used to justify both official and informal harassment of several ethnic, religious and political groups, among them Japanese Americans, Quakers and American Communists. Ultimately, Americans of every race, ancestry and gender participated in the war effort, fueling hopes that the United States could become, after all, a unified and multi-ethnic society.
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