WW2 Homefront

In America, we did nothing special. We grew up playing with our toys and trying to outsmart our parents. Some of the older kids would, on occasion, take up a collection of items for the "boys overseas", or write letters. The only thing we had to do was be quiet when Dad was listening to the war news on the radio. I know the situation was very different for children in other parts of the world, but I can't speak for them.

Many frenchman jammed guns in factorys, sabotaged tanks, and killed soldiers."50 frenchmen for every solider killed!" is what Hitler would say. rationing was just one of the sacrafices, you also had the fact that loved ones were risking life and limb far away In many countries in Europe people had to risk life and limb in their own homes because of bombing. Countries under Nazi occupation were governed either by collaborators or by Nazis. There were no basic liberties. Even democratic countries like Britain had direction of labour. In other words, the government told you what job(s) you could do, whether you could go to college and so on. Many of the democracies also had censorship of the press and of all mail, telegrammes and phonecalls going to and coming from overseas. People with very big houses sometimes had to make them available to the government and move out. The war was expensive and in Britain the top rate of income tax was just over 99%.

Hitler didn't personally kill Anne Frank, but being a Jew he wanted her dead and she did go to a concentration camp where she eventually died from typhus.

In his defence if he would have used soldiers to invade you would see alot, upwards of 200,000, more deaths on the american side, so it was certainly called for but i could see why anyone would be against it seeing as though 90,000 civilians in japan were killed i hope this helped

I can't actually provide a list but I can provide a web address to a site that lists the dead. The address is as follows nps.gov.usar

I have found a site with a search engine for those who died on the USS Arizona that day Dec 7, 1941. It doesn't give any information but at least I found the name I was looking for. John Dabney Butler from Texas. Virginia Clark Brown

USS Arizona Memorial (National Park Service) http://www.nps.gov/usar/

I found a site that has all the casualties plus their home states

http://www.pearlharbor.org/history/casualties/pearl-harbor-casualties/

Tennessee Governor Austin Peay signs the Butler Act, prohibiting the teaching of evolution in the state's public schools. New York City becomes the largest city in the world, taking the lead from London.

they wear jeans and tee shirts like we do.

There is no reason why women should not be in combat. My friend's dad was in the army. He said that there were 20 women in his division and 60 men. When his division was at target practice, almost always the women hit the target. He said it was because the women took more time in aiming there shot.

Air raid shelters were built specifically to serve as protection against enemy air raids. However, pre-existing edifices designed for other functions, such as underground stations (tube or subway stations), tunnels, or cellars in houses, basements in larger establishments, and railway arches, were also utilised. These structures, being below ground or almost so, and being especially strengthened to support the weight of the buildings above them, were therefore particularly suitable to safeguard people during air raids. A commonly used home made shelter was known as the Anderson shelter which would be built with beds, in the garden to protect from air raids.

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was the dictator of Italy during World War 2.

What led factors led to President Nixon's victory?

Go to the web site "Dad's War: Finding and Telling Your Father's World War II Story" -- it will tell you every thing you need to know. It's a complicated process, since many Federal records were destroyed in a fire. The website linked is an excellent source of data.

The effect of D-Day on America was the view that huge sacrifices had been made to rid the world of Nazi tyranny. The mood was solemn but proud, but also seemingly acknowledging that sons were fighting and laying down their lives for other people to be liberated from the Nazi jackboot. two quotes that comes to mind is in recognition of all allied soldiers who died in WW2. "They gave their today for our tommorow" "They died so that we might live" The public was largely unquestioning of the war, it was viewed as a biblical battle of Good vs Evil.

women used curlers and pins to get a curly, styled look. The hairstyle of this time was one of the most distinguishing parts of women's fashion then. cardigans were popular too along with pencil skirts and stilettos.

it was a illegal market that goods were sold from so they werent rationed

That's correct. It was trading in violation of the publicly imposed rationing laws. This activity is common during wars, such as WW2, and it involved items such as alcohol, chocolate, and pantyhose.

Nylon was invented at DuPont laboratories by Wallace Hume Carothers. He also invented neoprene. These inventions were made prior to WW 2 and helped greatly in the war effort. Neoprene being a synthetic rubber and nylon a replacement for silk. Japan was the leading producer of silk and for obvious reasons we could not buy it from them during the war. Nylon was invented on February, 28 1935 in Wilmington Delaware.

She lived in Frankfurt, Germany, where she was born. She had to move in 1933 when Hitler became chancellor of Germany. Then she moved to Holland in Amsterdam. She went in hiding when she was 13 years old.

I'm not certain of a monetary amount that Pearl Harbor cost, but there were alot of military vehicles destroyed. 5 of 8 battleships at Pearl Harbor were sunk, sinking, or totally damaged. All were at least damaged 3 cruisers, 3 destroyers, and a seaplane tender were severely damaged 96 army aircraft and 92 navy aircraft were destroyed and 159 more damaged Also, over 2,400 men were killed and more than 2,000 wounded. I'm sorry I couldn't provide a monetary amount (I'm guessing you were looking for one), but I'm not sure if anyone has that information. I hope that helped to show the magnitude of the attack.

185.7 Billion Bonds were sold. They paid 2.9 per cent, and matured in 10 years. This in a period of about 5 years A bond cost 18.75, and you could collect the face value of 25.00 at that time.

When I was in Kindergarten, we would line up after our morning milk break, to buy war bond stamps for 10 cents. We honestly had no idea what they were, only that it was a good thing. We would lick them and stick them in a book, and take them to the bank when the book was full. The bank would exchange it for a real US series E bond!! Wow!! And we felt sooo patriotic, because of all the publicity. We were glad to do it.

This when the median American income was around 2,000.00 per YEAR, not per month, and this country was at war with everything you can imagine rationed (not available to buy, or limited as to how much one person could buy).

So my next question is this, President Obama and the congress, Why the heck aren't you issuing them today, so we can pay our own way out of the terrible debt we're in? I've got a whole bowl of change and I'm waiting!!

The Cold War began as World War II was ending. American leaders saw the power and ambitions of the Soviet Union as a threat to our national security. The Cold War was a war of words and ideologies rather than a shooting war, although at times the Cold War turned “hot” as in Korea and Vietnam. Basically, the Cold War was a rivalry between the United States as leader of the western democracies, and the Soviet Union and the nations that were controlled by the communists. As the Soviets continued to develop atomic and nuclear weapons and other military hardware, the US was concerned that a Soviet Military build-up might threaten our military dominance over that nation. It was the policy of the US at that time to contain communism from spreading. In order to contain it, the US had to convince the Soviet Union that our military was stronger than their military. Also, it was necessary to convince the Soviets that should they attack us, our retaliation would destroy their country.

First of all, most of the men who went to war were killed and this left alot of jobs open. Before the men got back, all of the women would take over the jobs. But things went back to normal and men went back to work after war.

The name of the child, their school and a group name/number. They had a label for their suitcase and a label for their coat, to attach to themselves. I am trying to find out what information was on the reverse of the label i.e. where they were going to, etc.