TITLE:
The Consequences of a Forced Migration: The Return Home of WWII American Veterans
AUTHORS:
Isabel María García Conesa, Antonio Daniel Juan Rubio
KEYWORDS:
Rehabilitation, Migration, Social Measures, Reintegration, American Veterans
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Historical Studies,
Vol.5 No.1,
March
14,
2016
ABSTRACT: The end of the Second World War was a serious problem of rehabilitation, not only for the country
but also for the huge mass of veterans returning home after the military conflict. And in order to
avoid the unrest and social tension that followed the First World War, the US administration sled
firstly by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and secondly by Harry Truman were commissioned to
design a specific plan for rehabilitation and reintegration to civilian life of veterans. The Service
Readjustment Act of 1944, informally known as the G. I. Bill, was an important law that provided a
range of benefits for returning veterans of World War II. This law was passed in June 1944 in the
United States, turning further into Public Law 78-346, being available to all veterans who served
on active duty during the war years. Maybe it was the most representative and striking measure of
the many related ones which were rushed by the US administration. Throughout this article we
will focus primarily on the major consequences or repercussions that the adoption of the various
measures undertaken had on American society in the late 40s, especially after the return home of
the Second World War veterans.