How Did African Americans Influence The Civil Rights Movement During WWII?

World War II In the 1930s, Japan, Germany and Italy wanted to extend their powers and began invading other countries. Even though the U.S. was in the “Isolationist” mode, President Franklin D. Roosevelt still extended his helping hands to Germany’s opponents. For example, he signed the Lend-Lease Act of 1941 which ended oil sales to Japan. America announced war on the Axis powers by declaring war on Japan first and then on Germany. The U.S. declared war because Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 where a lot of Americans died and got severely injured. World War II created both collateral roles and new opportunities for African Americans and women. In 1942, African Americans got jobs through the enactment of the Fair Employment Practices Commission. Also, they did the Double V campaign which influenced the civil rights movement in the 1950s. In my opinion, many African Americans in our country felt the same way as the Jews in Germany during the WWII that is why they started the Double V protest, which according to Katherine A. S. Sibley’s essay, is about victory contrary to racism in foreign countries and in the U.S. On the other hand, the women’s theme was “Rosie the Riveter” because, according to what I know, a lot of women during the WWII worked in factories and participated
According to the reading, at the Battle of Stalingrad, 400,000 Soviets lost their lives and 22 German divisions gave up. On the other hand, in the Pacific, specifically in Bataan, Philippines, the Japanese made 75,000 Philippine and American prisoners of war march for 80 miles. The Japanese murdered, starved, and tortured them while marching. I think Europe had more deaths because the Allies gave more attention there first than in the Pacific since Germany is there and the head of the Axis Powers, Stalin, is there as