Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944
Law
By: U.S. Congress
Date: 1944
Source: Serviceman's Readjustment Act. Public Law 346. 78th Congress, 2d sess., June 22, 1944. Reproduced in American Passages: A History of the United States. Available online at http://azimuth.harcourtcollege.com/history/ayers/chapter27/... ; website home page: http://azimuth.harcourtcollege.com (accessed April 18, 2003).
Introduction
After the end of World War II (1939–1945), the nation faced the challenge of demobilizing the military. The number of persons serving in the U.S. armed forces dropped dramatically in a relatively short period of time. The Army, for example, dropped to six hundred thousand individuals in 1947 from a wartime peak of eight million. National lawmakers recognized...
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