In order to succeed on the home front and be able to support the troops, African Americans and women were given identities to help them achieve victory. To succeed on the war front, a rapid effort to expand industrial and military power was necessary. Both domestically and on the war front, victory depended heavily on the continued supply of means of war such as munitions, guns, tanks, warships and aircraft, because "the need to winning the war opened the economy to millions of black men and women who burst into the economy.” defense factories” (African Americans and the Military: World War II and Segregation). Without the support of other ethnic races and the involvement of typical housekeepers, the American dream would not have been achievable. For the sole purpose of realizing this much-desired dream alongside the American quest for happiness, Americans allowed discriminated individuals to support their victory, because it would not have been possible without them. Due to the inequality of opportunity presented by Americans within the union, the nation has been physically and physiologically disrupted and broken by differing opinions through discrimination and discrimination.