Daily Life on the Home Front
Each Statement is false: ----------- Each Bullet Point is correct
Because of wartime fears, most Americans delayed having children.
Remembering the insecurity of the Depression, most Americans wanted to hold on to the higher wages they earned working in wartime industries.
Because so many professional players were serving in the military, there were no major league baseball games during the war.
The government created the Office of Price Administration (OPA) to increase the price of imported goods.
Victory Gardens provided fancy foods for the wealthy but were little help to the war effort. 5.
To burden war-weary Americans further, the government asked people on the home front to scrap metal, paper, and kitchen fats.
Definitions
Victory Garden is a:
Office of War Information is the
Books and Movies
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Casablanca: "Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.“
Rationing
Poster would Inspire Patriotism to ration and recycle
Rationing and Recycling is meant to overcome shortages in:
Each Statement is false: ----------- Each Bullet Point is correct
Because of wartime fears, most Americans delayed having children.
- As a sign of America’s optimism, there was an increase in the America’s birth rate.
Remembering the insecurity of the Depression, most Americans wanted to hold on to the higher wages they earned working in wartime industries.
- Americans were eager to spend their extra cash income on consumer goods, but war production made those goods unavailable.
- So what did Americans spend their money on if they did not save the money?
- Paid off homes
- Paid off Debts
- War Bonds (Saving)
Because so many professional players were serving in the military, there were no major league baseball games during the war.
- Because so many professional players were serving in the military, baseball clubs recruited new talent through want ads in newspapers.
The government created the Office of Price Administration (OPA) to increase the price of imported goods.
- To head off inflation, the government created the Office of Price Administration (OPA) and gave it the authority to freeze rents and prices.
- When manipulate the black market, black markets can occur due to shortages and high demand.
Victory Gardens provided fancy foods for the wealthy but were little help to the war effort. 5.
- Families planted, on whatever land was available, victory gardens that by 1943 were producing about one-third of the countries fresh produce.
To burden war-weary Americans further, the government asked people on the home front to scrap metal, paper, and kitchen fats.
- Programs for overcoming shortages by recycling scrap metal and other goods materials kept many Americans actively involved in the war effort.
Definitions
Victory Garden is a:
- Home Garden planted to make up for the farm produce sent to feed the soldiers.
- The extra produce would help to lower the price of the other produce, which the troops would buy.
- Schools would also plant victory gardens
Office of War Information is the
- Government Agency set up in 1942 to help create patriotic posters and ads
Books and Movies
- Pocket Books --- Small Paper Backs
- Hollywood goes to War:
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Casablanca: "Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.“
- Movies would remind the American people about the war, even when they were trying to get away from it for a moment
- 4,000 of 5,700 MLB players were in the military
- They still had the MLB but recruited Minor League and amateur player through the personal ads.
- All-American Girl’s Baseball League created
Rationing
Poster would Inspire Patriotism to ration and recycle
Rationing and Recycling is meant to overcome shortages in:
- Tin
- Rubber
- Scrap Metal
- Fur
- Nylon Hosiery
- Paper
- Fats