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WW2 Homefront
WW2 home front refers to the activities of the civilians during WW2. The governments of affected countries required their civilians to assist in the war effort. While the men fought at the front lines, the women provided logistic support.
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Were women important to the war effort during World War 2?
Women led the war effort during WWII. While most of the men were off fighting in different theaters across the globe, the women took up men's jobs and kept their homeland running. Some worked in factories producing supplies for the troops, inspired by the fictional poster icon Rosie the Riviter. They rationed their own food and goods so that the troops could be well fed.
Why did African Americans feel disenfranchised during world war 2?
Inequality, Jim Crow Laws, "White Man's Burden", and many other factors. Also they were not referred to as African Americans at the time. Lastly, to presuppose that every person of color felt the same way at some point in time is pretty ignorant. Generalizations are bad, bad, bad.
The reasons why war is bad because:
- Billions of dollars get spent for war equipment. Which the billions of dollars is used for the economy.
- Many innocent men, women, and children die from the soldiers while war is happening.
- It is very bad for the environment.
- Many resources get taken away when war is happening.
HOWEVER, there are some good reasons that war is good:
- Makes new jobs.
- Using new resources.
- Having peace with a country or group (depends).
What jobs can women get in the millatary?
Women Marines (WM's) can hold any billet in the Corps with the exception of combat arms (Infantry, Armor, Artillary) and some forward deployed functions such as found with Force Service Support Group (FSSG) units.
WM's have a long and valued history with the Corps and have served with distinction.
Roman leader who formed alliance with Cleopatra?
There was no Roman Emperor during Cleoparta's time. Julius Caesar formed a liaison with her after he came to Egypt in search of Pompey the Great after he defeated him at Pharsalus in 48 BCE.. He fathered a child with her called Caesarion. He became Dictator for Life, and subsequently invited her to visit Rome. After Ceasar's murder, Octavian (later called Augustus), Marc Antony and Lepidus formed a Triumvirate and divided the empire amongst them. Triumvir Antony got the east, and he formed a liaison and alliance with Cleopatra. The upshot was a civil war between the west and the east, which ended at Actium in 31 BCE. Antony fled with Cleo to Alexandria, where both suicided as Triumvir Octavian surrounded the city. Octavian reduced Egypt to a Roman province governed by a personal appointee.
What is the value of the newspapers surrounding world war 2?
about 2-5 cents which is about 29-73 cents today.
What jobs did men have to do if they did not go to war?
Men of a healthy outlook and age were expected to go to war, even the very rich did, they often found themselves in higher position. Any man refusing to go to war would have be shunned by the community and arressted and spend the entire war in jail, because if you didnt have a medical condition that kept you from enlisting the you were considered a coward.
How did American industry help win World War 2?
"It was capable of producing among other things the largest merchant fleet in the world, 78 Capital Ships (Cruiser or Larger), 141 Escort Carriers, and almost 850 Destroyers (DD) and Destroyer Escorts (DE). It turned out more than 300,000 aircraft, 88,410 tanks and 2,382,311 jeeps and trucks.
American agriculture increased production to an all time high and coal, steel and lumber production soared."
The USA also had a huge and extremely determined pool of manpower to fuel that incredible industrial machine. Compared to WWI, the USA literally outproduced every nation on Earth combined in virtually every vital resource. In the end, with the manpower, raw materials, and determination to industrialize the USA created the modern era of technology and economic principles.
Did Britain evacuate Jewish people living in UK during World War 2?
Male refugees of military age from Germany and Austria - whether Jewish or not - were interned ... However, the majority of refugees were able to establish their status as genuine refugees and were released fairly quickly.
What jobs did women find during world war ll that were a break from traditional women and roles?
During WWII women found atypical manufacturing jobs that were left vacant by men who left to fight. These jobs were welding, assembling, and riveting to name a few. This is where the phrase "Rosie the Riveter" came from. The tragedy is that when the men returned from war, the women were fired from the jobs they performed while the men were away.
George S. Patton was commissioned a second lieutenant in 1909. He became a full (4 star) general in 1945 after having served throughout WW1 and WW2, as well as in Mexico in 1917. General Patton established a tank training school in France and commanded a tank brigade before he took over US forces in North Africa and Sicily in 1942 and 1943. Early in 1944 he commanded the US Third Army and then led the US armored corp into Germany after D-Day. After the war Patton served as military governor of Bavaria for a short while. He died in December of 1945 as the result of an automobile accident in the US.
What were the roles carried out by Native Americans in World War 2?
Probably the most profound effect that Native Americans had on WWII was in the Pacific theater. It was here that the code talkers were introduced. The Japanese never broke any code that the code talkers used. Matter of fact, during the cold war, a little known bit of history is that the Soviet Union went thru many efforts to procure the languages that were used by our code talkers and taught it to their GRU operatives. This way if we tried to do that to them, they could counter it. Also one of the Marines that raised the flag at Iowa Jima was Ira Hayes.
Why did people go in to air raid shelters?
People went to air-raid shelters to shelter from bombings during the Blitz.
Was there an ammunition factory in the U.S. in World War 2?
Everywhere, for example IBM and most other typewriter manufacturers converted most of their typewriter factories to making M-1 Garaund rifles and other guns. Auto and tractor manufactures converted much of their factories to making tanks and parts for fighters and bombers. Lucky Strike cigarettes quit using green ink on their package labels because the pigment was based on copper and switched to red ink, they made that a big patriotic selling point of the war "Lucky Strike green has gone to war... buy Lucky Strike red".
What is a Morrison shelter and when was it used in world war 2?
A Morrison Shelter was issued to people who didn't have a garden and therefore couldn't use an Anderson shelter. It was a protective cage that could be assembled inside a house and would protect from falling masonry etc. but not from a direct hit.
The Soviet's first atomic bomb test. - PLATO, making every student's lives heaven and hell at the same time since 2010.
Why was the Office of War Mobilization created?
To supervise the government agencies involved in the war effort.
The Office of War Mobilization (OWM) supervised Government efforts to allocate scarce resources, regulate production, established production contracts, negotiate with organised labor, and control inflation.
Did women in world war 2 only work in factories?
No. Every factory in the US that possibly could be was converted to making something for the war effort, but not everybody lived near those factories. Many people moved to where there was "war work", because there had been no jobs to go get all during the 30s, and the war meant a tremendous opportunity to work and earn good money. But not everyone could pull up stakes and move to where the jobs were, and some women had families they had to take care of, so they did not have time to work a job. Other women were discouraged by their husbands or families from trying to get a job. If you're asking was the entire work force in factories women, again the answer is no. Older men were not subject to being drafted into the military, and men who were rejected because they could not pass the physical were working in the factories. Men with special skills who worked in jobs crucial to the war effort were exempt from the draft. In 1940 there were about 160 million people in the US, and the military had figured out that only about 10% of the total population could be taken for military service without beginning to hurt war production at home. So this was the percentage of the population in uniform for the war, about 16 million. This still left about 65 million males at home, to work and farm and so on, and around 80 million females. Probably a fourth of these were too young and almost as many were too old to work. If a woman lived close enough to areas where war production was going on (and few had access to a car, or gasoline, to travel back and forth to work) and nobody in her life was stopping her, then she could get a job and work as much as she could stand, because overtime was plentiful. But really, factory workers, shipyard workers and so on, including women, were a minority of the overall population.
What happened to the children who get sent away during world war 2?
they get sent to the countryside and become evacuees and work on a farm
Second answer:
The children sent away in World War Two were known as evacuees and were sent to places where the British thought the Germans wouldn't send their bombers, such as farms or other countryside locations. Overall, about 3,000,000 people (mostly schoolchildren) were given ID numbers and sent via trains, usually, to these places. There were often so many children sent to one place that the local farms, small towns etc. did not have enough beds for them.
This is a quote I took from a BBC website that shows that the children did not always quite know what was happening to them.
'We marched to Waterloo Station behind our head teacher carrying a banner with our school's name on it,' says James Roffey, founder of the Evacuees Reunion Association. 'We all thought it was a holiday, but the only thing we couldn't work out was why the women and girls were crying.'
Evacuees had varied experiences when they were sent away. Some were taken in as part of the family and treated well and fairly, maybe even better than at their own homes. However, 12% of 450 evacuees spoken to, according to a survey said they suffered mental or physical abuse. This is rather sad, but then so was most of WW2.
Sorry if I'm not a great writer
What would happen if there was a blackout?
There are two ways of looking at the question, "What would happen if there was no electricity".
First....
What if electricity didn't exist?
- Well, the universe literally would not exist as we know it, because electricity is streams of electrons, and without electrons, compounds (and thus most matter) wouldn't exist.
- If electricity (electromagnetism) did not exist the universe would not exist, since EM forces are an integral component of the (commonly accepted) standard model.
Second...
What if humans didn't know how to use electricity?
- We didn't know how to use it for most of our history, so I imagine we'd revert to a mid-1800's society, where machines were steam powered and we had to read for personal entertainment.
- We wouldn't be able to watch TV, go on the computer, talk on the phone.
- We'd have to play games outside, and use our imaginations more, like they did in historical times.
- Parents wouldn't be able to punish by taking away computers or cell phones because neither would run anyway.
- Imagine cold showers or baths; no microwave; no cold drinks in summer; even worse no air conditioning and no cars (Cars need electricity to run the fuel ignition system.)
- One could heat water on the stove (probably a wood stove, hot, sweaty, and smokey, why many old kitchens were walled off from the rest of the house). But, you didn't prohibit using Natural Gas for Hot water, or for the stove. One can even run an absorption refrigerator on Natural Gas or Propane, or anything that would run a compressor could run a freon based refrigerator. With a little imagination one could use a solar hot water heater too.
- Transport would be steam-driven, animal-driven or human-powered. You'd have a bicycle, a horse-drawn carriage or you'd just walk everywhere you went, and you'd go long distances by train. By now someone would have invented the horseless carriage, which would run on either a small boiler or maybe a diesel engine--diesels don't need electricity to run, and you can rope-start them if you have to.
- Remember the old cars had cranks out front. You'd get outside rain or shine and pull on the crank and hope it started... and pull again. Presumably this would also work with Diesel engines without any electricity, but the increased compression would make them a pain to crank to start. Glow plugs, of course, wouldn't work so you'd have to compensate with higher compression. I believe some Diesel engines use pneumatic starters, or perhaps you could use a pony-engine setup like the old caterpillars.
- Also, no radio in the car. No electric fans. Probably we would still be using carbide lights on the fenders.
- Everyone dreams about riding horses, right? That would likely be a big part of life
- Lighting would be by flames--candles or lanterns.
- You'd communicate via the mails, or you'd go visiting. Visiting was a very popular form of entertainment in the 1800s, and there were many social protocols--you dressed formally to do it, you made an appointment to visit, you left calling cards in a basket at the front door, and you had a special sitting room that was only used for visiting.
- You'd entertain yourself by playing games, but you'd play with other people. You'd also go to dances, you'd go to church (people weren't really any more religious then than they are now, but everyone went to church because in a lot of places church was the main form of entertainment).
- Food was generally fresh, or canned, and locally-grown. Meats were almost always smoked. Did you ever read in old Christmas stories about how the children got an orange for a gift? Oranges were special because they were hard to transport, so you might see one a year.
- If you wanted to see a play, you went to a theater. If you wanted to hear music, you went to a concert on the town square, or you had someone in the family who could play, or you knew how to play yourself. A lot of people had pianos or harpsichords, and for the non-rich there were guitars, banjos, fiddles, harmonicas and mandolins.
- Work was all manual. You made things, or you wrote on ledger paper.
- There wouldn't be any more thirty-second conversations. Women didn't just run over to a neighbor's house for a little while--if you wanted to do that, you'd talk to your neighbor across the hedgerow at the edge of your property. If you spent a couple of hours dressing, styling your hair and applying makeup, you'd spend half the night in conversation. And you'd LIKE it! You also wouldn't be there by yourself--usually people would gather in groups in parlors (living rooms), and discuss all sorts of things.
- No escalators, no elevators, and a lot more would be done by hand. There probably would be a lot less incidence of obesity, and less incidence of adult onset type 2 diabetes.
- Medicine, of course, would be simpler with no MRIs, PET Scans, CAT scans, Maybe simple X-Rays but, no Ultra Sounds. No knowing the sex of your child before it is born.
- No hand held calculators. There were mechanical calculators available, for quite some time, but they were overly large.
- Lastly, you wouldn't have a computer to be reading this. It would either be typed with a manual typewriter (ker-thunk), handwritten by candle-light or transcribed by monks in some monastery.
- There actually were some early mechanical computing devices... but for a mechanical computer device capable of doing what a modern laptop computer can do, think of something the size of New York City, and still no video screen to look at.
- People would go to bed to sleep at dark (about 8pm) because there isn't much to do after dark, by candlelight, in shadows. There'd be no outside lights so outdoor activities would be difficult or dangerous.
What did elderly people do in World War 2?
The elderly looked after children when fathers were overseas and mothers working in a factory. They also contributed produce in food drives, and some may have worked in factories, especially in textiles
