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I would name three main groups who gained new opportunities in the US because of WWII.
Women
The workforce mobilization engendered by WWII in the US was staggering. Companies -- especially those involved in war production -- went almost overnight from posting signs turning away unemployed men to actively recruiting unemployed women. Even today's schoolkids have heard of "Rosie the Riveter," who became the archetype of female workers across the country. While the trend of women in the workplace retreated in the post-war years, it rebounded strongly in the 1970s and is an undeniable force today.
Veterans
During and after the war, veterans were a class of people that enjoyed never-before opportunities in the US. Through the "GI Bill," veterans were offered college loans and grants and other government subsidies -- most notably home loans at favorable rates and terms -- that no other sector of the population had access to.
Scientists
Before WWII, science was something seldom talked about publicly. Medical science, for example, was still so weak that it couldn't prevent or treat the influenza pandemic in the 19-teens. Medical science was phenomenally advanced during WWII. Sulfa gave way to penicillin!
But German scientists working in other fields figured out how to make unmanned aerial vehicles -- yeah, UAVs -- and launched them with aggravating regularity toward London, Antwerp, and other targets of opportunity. Thousands died as a result of this scientific breakthrough.
As science became the clear gateway to technological superiority among warring parties, nations courted scientists, much as princes court potential princesses.
Many of the scientists involved in the Manhattan Project had German names. That is because they were born and raised in Germany.
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∙ 15y agoWW2 was fought primarily between two sets of adversaries: Allies & Axis Powers; Axis=Germany, Italy, and Japan VS Allies=US, Britain, USSR, China, Australia, New Zealand, Canada.
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