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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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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.
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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.
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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
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Why did new zealand have blackouts during world war 2?
There is 3 options or reasons 1.the government did it so enemies couldn't bomb them due too no targets and 2.People did it themselves so the enemy couldn't bomb them3.They had a lot of blackouts as just a coincidence
P.S go with answer 1
How the world changed after World War 1?
After World War I ended, the Treaty of Versailles was signed. It declared what would happen to the losing countries. Specifically, Germany bore the brunt of the punishment. They owed so much in reparations that they only finished paying it off in 2010.
What did the women do after the World War 2?
In the war the women sacrificed their men and many lost their sons, fathers, brothers, uncles, nephews and cousins. Some lost their daughters, mothers, sisters, aunts, nieces and cousins. But they did find was after the war to succeed and cope.
Women worked as nurses, switchboard operators, secretaries and receptionists, in businesses like clothing stores, or places like Woolworth's, Newberry's, Grant's and other stores needing women clerks. The really young ones would work at soda counters, movie theaters or as babysitters. Some women ran boarding homes or childcare businesses. Some worked in the entertainment field or as models.
In later decades women became professional women and even executives of large companies.
The women who were widowed often went to live with relatives or got jobs like I described above.
The women world wide learned they had ability, smarts and power. They found they did not have to be just "housewives" and could survive without their husbands if they had to.
V-Mail One method was called "V-Mail" or "Victory Mail". This was a method used to ship thousands of letters and not take up too much space on shipments. The soldier wrote his letter on a blank letter form. At the top he wrote the address and his return address. This letter was then taken to a place and photographed. Then the photo negatives were shipped back to the US. This reduced the letters to a small size. Once the film arrived in the US, then it was printed like a photograph would onto a small sheet of paper. The printed letter was folded and inserted in an envelope that had a window so the address would show and it was mailed Free to the family.
There are a great many reasons why the Americas wanted Florida. Florida was a very big port for trade and travel.
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Did most women work during world war 2?
During world war 2, there were about 25 % to 30 % of women who worked outside the house at paying jobs. More married women, more mothers, and more minority women found jobs than had before the war.
Was yogurt made in World War 2 on te home front?
The rationing really did not allow the city people to make their own yogurt. The dairy farmers could make cream, yogurt, cottage cheese, cheese and other things like ice cream. City people did drive to the farms if they had enough fuel to get to them to purchase dairy products, eggs, produce and even poultry, pork and beef cuts. There was a black market fed by the farmers and other people and believe me the prices were high.
What did african americans do after world war 2?
Most African Americans were sharecroppers after the civil war. This was a system in which the landowner would allow them work a piece of land and give them some of the crop produced.
Why were eggs rationed during world war 2?
Rationing in the United Kingdom during World War II began in January, 1940. Eggs, meat, tea, cheese, and fruit were all rationed. To implement rationing, the government made wasting food a federal crime. The prices on these goods were raised, making it difficult to buy them.
Did the Battle of Kokoda save Australia from invasion?
yes they won the kokoda trail war in 1942 against the japanease imperial army. but they lost the original battle for the village of kokoda and its associated air strip and after the vattle at the port the australians had the enemy armies morale so low they were able to push the japanease army all the way back to the beach they came from
What did children wear during World War 2?
during WW2 children wore very simple clothes to see aczactly wat they wore follow these instructions 1. go on to ; www.google.co.uk 2. click on images. 3. type in te box ; What did children in WW2 wear?
They wore long skirts and dresses for the girls. For the boys overalls and suits. NO SKINNY JEANS OR TIGHT MINI-SKIRTS!!! Plus they wore shoes with straps. The boys wore shoes that looked like tap dancing shoes.
children wore pinafores shorts skirts dresses blouses vests pants socks shoes
How many US Generals or Admirals died in World War 2?
Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, CG Tenth Army, killed June 18, 1945 on Okinawa. (Posthumously promoted to General in 1954.)
Rear Adm. Daniel J. Callahan, killed November 13, 1942 aboard USS SAN FRANCISCO (CA-38) at the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. Awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions.
Rear Adm. Isaac C. Kidd, killed December 7, 1941 aboard USS ARIZONA (BB-39) during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions.
Lt. Gen. Leslie J. McNair, CG Army Ground Forces (training & doctrine), killed July 25, 1944 in France by "friendly fire" (posthumously promoted to General in 1954). His son, Colonel Douglas McNair, chief of staff of the 77th Infantry Division, was killed two weeks later by a sniper on Guam.
Maj. Gen. Maurice Rose, CG, 3rd Armored Division, killed in action in Germany on March 30, 1945.
Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr., ADC, 4th Infantry Division, July 12, 1944 (heart attack). Roosevelt suffered from severe arthritis (walked with a cane) and diagnosed heart problems. He was the only general officer to land with the first wave on D-Day (June 6, 1944). Awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions on that day.
Rear Adm. Norman Scott, killed November 13, 1942 aboard USS ATLANTA (CL-51) at the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. Awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions.
Brig. Gen. James Wharton, CG 28th Infantry Division, killed in France on August 12, 1944.
"Nearly 1,100 U.S. Army generals served at some point during World War II, and of those about 40 died during or immediately following the war. Not all were in combat units, and some were not in enemy territory when they died.
Of these generals, at least 11 were killed in action or died of wounds from hostile actions, two were executed by the Japanese while POWs, four were killed in plane crashes, one was killed by friendly fire, and five died of natural causes, including two of heart attacks. The remainder died of various causes in the first few months after the end of hostilities."
How were the gender roles of white women reshaped and redefined during the Revolutionary era?
How were the gender roles of white women reshaped and redefined during the Revolutionary eraHow were the gender roles of white women reshaped and redefined during the Revolutionary era
