The Victory Home:
Fear
The
home front was plagued by many fears. Immediately after Pearl Harbor,
fears of invasion were rampant. Civil Defense air raid drills and
blackouts were a response. Fears of sabotage, as well as the atmosphere
of super-patriotism, caused public suspicion of all nonconformists. The worst sufferers in this respect were Americans of Japanese descent who were forcibly detained in internment
camps, most of them losing virtually all their possessions in the process. At
the same time, government economists were wary about wartime inflation,
which could plunge the country back into Depression after the war.
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