The primary
goal of the United States in WWII was to stop the spread of totalitarianism.The home front was
also mobilized in this endeavor even before the war withsuch as Franklin Roosevelt's 1941 State
of the Union Address in which he mentioned four freedoms:freedom from want, freedom to worship,
freedom of speech, and freedom of fear.When the United States officially joined the war in
December of that year, these words energized the public to stand up to
totalitarianism.
The United States at the time did not entirely live up to
these four freedoms mentioned in the speech.Black people throughout the South still faced
discrimination and it took the federal government to stop segregation in war industries.This was
the first national effort at desegregation.Free speech was sharply curtailed by anti-communist
and anti-immigrant groups of people were not perceived to be "true patriots" in favor
of fighting the Axis powers....
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