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Q. 4 events/issues/situations that dealt with the American Home-front during WWII
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1. the unemployment problem ended, when stepped up wartime production created millions of new jobs. legions of women took jobs in factories vacated by men who had entered military service.
2. there was large-scale migration to industrial centers, especially on the West Coast. millions of wives followed their husbands to military camps. many new military training bases were established or enlarged, especially in the South. large numbers of African-Americans left the cotton fields and headed for the cities. housing was increasingly difficult to find in industrial centers; commuting by car was limited by gasoline rationing. people car pooled or took public transportation, which was seriously overcrowded. trains were heavily booked, so people limited vacation and long-distance travel.
3. a rationing system was begun. tires were the first item to be rationed in 1942 because supplies of natural rubber were interrupted. passenger automobiles, typewriters, sugar, gasoline, bicycles, footwear, fuel oil, coffee, stoves, shoes, meat, lard, shortening, oils, cheese, butter, margarine, processed foods (canned, bottled and frozen), dried fruits, canned milk, firewood and coal, jams, jellies and fruit butter, were rationed by 1944.
4. marriage and motherhood came back as prosperity empowered couples who had postponed marriage. the birth rate started shooting up in 1941, paused in 1944-45 as 12 million men were in uniform, then continued to soar until reaching a peak in the late 1950s. this was the "Baby Boom."
1. the unemployment problem ended, when stepped up wartime production created millions of new jobs. legions of women took jobs in factories vacated by men who had entered military service.
2. there was large-scale migration to industrial centers, especially on the West Coast. millions of wives followed their husbands to military camps. many new military training bases were established or enlarged, especially in the South. large numbers of African-Americans left the cotton fields and headed for the cities. housing was increasingly difficult to find in industrial centers; commuting by car was limited by gasoline rationing. people car pooled or took public transportation, which was seriously overcrowded. trains were heavily booked, so people limited vacation and long-distance travel.
3. a rationing system was begun. tires were the first item to be rationed in 1942 because supplies of natural rubber were interrupted. passenger automobiles, typewriters, sugar, gasoline, bicycles, footwear, fuel oil, coffee, stoves, shoes, meat, lard, shortening, oils, cheese, butter, margarine, processed foods (canned, bottled and frozen), dried fruits, canned milk, firewood and coal, jams, jellies and fruit butter, were rationed by 1944.
4. marriage and motherhood came back as prosperity empowered couples who had postponed marriage. the birth rate started shooting up in 1941, paused in 1944-45 as 12 million men were in uniform, then continued to soar until reaching a peak in the late 1950s. this was the "Baby Boom."
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