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	World War II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Postâ“World War II Europe was partitioned into Western and Soviet spheres of influence, the former undergoing economic reconstruction under the Marshall Plan and the latter becoming satellite states of the Soviet Union.
		During the Arcadia Conference from December 1941 to January 1942, the Allied leaders concluded that it was essential to keep Russia in the war.
		Home front is the name given to the activities of the civilians in a state of total war (sometimes referred to by the United States as the American Theater of Operations).
	abcworld.net /World_War_II.html (9102 words)

	HistoryLink Essay:Knitting for Victory -- World War II
		Many of the earliest knitters for World War II had knit for Victory as children or young adults during World War I. Knitting was for them a natural and immediate response to war.
		She effectively launched the World War II knitting effort at a Knit for Defense tea held at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City on September 31, 1941.
		Unlike the World War I period in which many Seattle schoolchildren knit for the war effort, during World War II children were more occupied with growing Victory Gardens, collecting scrap metal, and collecting funds for the Red Cross.
	www.historylink.org /essays/printer_friendly/index.cfm?file_id=5722 (2420 words)

	The Home Front: Winning the Home Front
		Hoping to boost morale and preserve a semblance of normalcy during the war, President Roosevelt urged baseball commissioner Kennesaw Mountain Landis to maintain a major league schedule for the duration.
		World War II spawned numerous advances, not the least of which was a vastly expanded vocabulary.
		During World War II, many of their storylines reflected the separations, losses, and victories of their listeners, with some plots even developed in collaboration with the Office of War Information.
	www.umkc.edu /lib/spec-col/ww2/warnews/home-front.htm (787 words)

	H102 Lecture 21: World War II: The Home Front
		During the war, the teenage workforce grew from 1 million to 3 million.
		During the war, the average daily expenditure on military contracts was $250 million, which inflated American industrial capacity.
		World War II also helped to solidify the strength of organized labor and to cement the intimate relationship between big business and big government so that all three groups exercised power to shore up the corporate state.
	us.history.wisc.edu /hist102/lectures/lecture21.html (2076 words)

	MNHS.ORG \| Library \| History Topics \| Women and the Home Front During World War II
		Women and the Home Front During World War II Although World War II began in Europe in early September of 1939, the United States did not join until December 8, 1941, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
		Although only one-third of the state's adult female population was employed during the war, the two-thirds that were not employed found other ways to assist the war effort.
		During the World War II, when most men were off to war, women from Hastings were employed to pick, grade, and pack the apples, and they literally saved the Benitt's apple crops from rot, working long hours at harvest time.
	www.mnhs.org /library/tips/history_topics/131women_homefront.htm (1449 words)

	The Home Front: We Interrupt This Program
		Frontline reporting during World War II was spotty, but this had more to do with the era's technical and logistical limitations than with correspondents' timidity.
		During the golden era of radio, broadcast news was often a juggling act of reporting, bold commentary, and audacious characters.
		Harsch reported from London when war was declared, from Berlin as the war took shape, from Pearl Harbor when it was attacked, and from Australia during the early days of the Pacific campaign.
	www.umkc.edu /lib/spec-col/ww2/WarNews/interrupt.htm (913 words)

	The American Home Front during World War II
		The scope covers all aspects of life in America during this time, the workplace, marriage and family, economy and rations, social behaviors, etc. The main focus of the resource selection was on primary sources such as newspapers, magazines, letters, diaries etc. rather than secondary sources, although those resources are also useful.
		A broad source touching all aspects of World War II in America, this source is an excellent starting point for research.
		It is a general text discussing all aspects of the American Home Front, thus filling in some gaps in the mentioned texts by its broad nature.
	ils.unc.edu /~vienl/cf~pathfinder.html (2890 words)

	WAR, WOMEN, AND OPPORTUNITY - Women Come to the Front (Library of Congress Exhibition)
		World War II opened a new chapter in the lives of Depression-weary Americans.
		During World War II, many of the newswomen in the First Lady's circle served as war correspondents.
		One of the most important predecessors was Peggy Hull, who on September, 17, 1918, won accreditation from the War Department to become the first official American female war correspondent and who went on to serve as a correspondent during World War II.
	www.loc.gov /exhibits/wcf/wcf0002.html (687 words)

	Home front during World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The home front is the name given to the activities of the civilians during a state of total war.
		Life on the home front during World War II was a significant part of the war effort for all participants, and had major impact on the outcome of the war.
		After rapid German advances in the early months of the war reaching the city of Moscow, the bulk of Soviet industry and agriculture was either destroyed or in German hands.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Home_front_during_World_War_II (2646 words)

	EDSITEment - Lesson Plan
		Studying the effect of World War II on your home state and the nation is probably part of your curriculum; use "On the Home Front" in conjunction with that study.
		Part of the home front effort in World War II was the promotion of certain values; values promotion is also important to the home front effort today.
		During World War II, writing to a member of the armed forces was considered important to the war effort.
	edsitement.neh.gov /view_lesson_plan.asp?id=224 (3687 words)

	KCKPL YS/World War II Bibliography
		Examines the events that led up to World War II and its consequences, including the Cold War, development of the United Nations, advances in technology, and the "Americanization" of the world.
		Describes life on the "home front" during World War II, when children collected newspapers, movies were filled with propaganda, working women became commonplace, and necessities were rationed.
		War in the deep : pacific submarine action in World War II / by Edwin P. Hoyt / 1978
	www.kckpl.lib.ks.us /ys/books/Ww2bks.htm (313 words)

	National Memorial Day Concert . World War II . America's Homefront \| PBS
		From selling War Bonds to saving bacon fat, Americans did all they could at home to support the troops and their mission.
		WAR BONDS: The sale of War Bonds and War Stamps from 1942-1945, by everyone from children going door-to-door to movie stars Abbott and Costello and Irene Dunne, helped the country stage a rapid economic recovery after the post-depression years.
		To aid the war effort, they were encouraged to salvage their tin cans, bottles, odd bits of rubber, waste paper, nylon and silk (to make parachutes), scrap metal and even fats left over from cooking (to make into explosives).
	www.pbs.org /memorialdayconcert/wwii/guarding.html (920 words)

	Arizona Goes to War: The Home Front and the Front Lines during World War II
		A few months later he was back home in Phoenix when the telegram arrived notifying him that he was to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
		Arizona Goes to War takes readers back to a time when military installations sprang up all over the state as thousands of airmen arrived to train in Arizona's clear desert skies, and when soldiers destined for North Africa came to get their first taste of desert sands.
		World War II may have transformed Arizona more than it did any other state; not only did Arizona's industry blossom, its population did as well when servicemen who had been stationed there returned to put down stakes.
	www.uapress.arizona.edu /books/BID1473.htm (533 words)

	NPS Commitment to Honor World War II Home Front: National Historic Landmarks Program (NHL) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		During World War II thousands of Americans contributed to the war effort at work, at home and at play.
		Those who were not fighting the war overseas made the ships, the planes, trained the troops, staffed the offices, grew the food, and supported the spirit for a long and painful war on two fronts.
		This will provide Americans a context for the present war, a way to honor the contributions of the Home Front veterans of World War II and a connection to their patriotism and strength.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nhl/themes/homefront/commitment.htm (473 words)

	World War II:Manuscript Division
		In many respects, World War II marked the watershed of women's participation in the United States military.
		As part of the American Folklife Center's Veterans History Project, the Library is collecting letters, diaries, and oral history interviews of women who served in the military and on the home front during this country's twentieth-century wars.
		During World War II, she was the school's director, and later in her twenty-year career she became director of the entire Women's Army Corps [moving image].
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/awhhtml/awmss5/ww2.html (482 words)

	Amazon.com: Wartime America: The World War II Home Front (American Ways Series): Books: John W. Jeffries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Among social changes were increased divorce and juvenile delinquency, displaced small farmers and businessmen, a new reign of bureaucracies and the growth of the sunbelt.
		Jeffries (history, Univ. of Maryland) analyzes the home front both during World War II and in postwar life.
		Was it a "Good War?" Recent books like The Greatest Generation pay a well-deserved tribute to the men and women of the era, but contribute to a misleading rose-colored view of the time.
	www.amazon.com /Wartime-America-World-Front-American/dp/156663119X (1547 words)

	Lisa's Nostalgia Cafe--The 40's: Life During World War II
		The metal that was used for the green dye on Lucky Strike cigarette packages was needed for the war effort, so they changed their packaging from green to white....and used this fact in their advertising.
		If a loved one died in the war, the family received a telegram, followed by a letter containing the details.
		Before America entered World War II, USO clubs provided recreation for servicemen based in the states.
	www.angelfire.com /retro2/lisanostalgia2/40swar.html (1559 words)

	Amazon.com: Arizona Goes to War: The Home Front and the Front Lines During World War II: Books: Brad Melton,Dean Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Recalls the wartime exploits of Arizonans who answered their country's call, as well as the adventures of those on the home front.
		A separate chapter pays tribute to Arizona's most famous war heroes, a host of profiles and sidebars bring people and events of the wartime era to life, and an appendix provides a traveler's guide to Arizona's World War II sites.
		Their exploits--and the adventures of those on the home front--are now celebrated in a book that brings that era engagingly to life.
	www.amazon.com /Arizona-Goes-War-Front-During/dp/0816521891 (1124 words)

	BiFolkal Productions, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Three generations of Americans now living have been directly affected by World War II the veterans of the war and the home front, their parents, and their baby boom children.
		Now is the time to share and compare experiences, insights, and attitudes about that war, and war in general.
		The Stars on the Home Front during World War II did war work, saved fuel and rubber, read newspapers and listened to the radio while they waited for (and worried about) their loved ones overseas.
	www.bifolkal.org /bf_kit11.html (256 words)

	World War II — Infoplease.com
		Major Military Operations Since World War II - Major Military Operations Since World War II World War II was the last war fought in which the...
		Casualties in World War II - Casualties in World War II Country Men in war Battle deaths Wounded Australia 1,000,000 26,976...
		Apologies for atrocities: commemorating the 50th anniversary of World War II's end in the United States and Japan.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0852743.html (278 words)

	World War II Home Front Theme Study: National Historic Landmarks Program (NHL)
		The theme study is part of a larger NPS commitment to studying the role of the Home Front during World War II and to recognizing the accomplishments of the Home Front generation.
		The legislation that established the Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California
		To assist in this effort, NPS is gathering information on the numerous properties recognized for their association with the Home Front as well as the extensive body of cultural resource management literature sponsored by other federal agencies on World War II related sites.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nhl/themes/homefront/homefront.htm (509 words)

	The Home Front in Rural America during World War II
		The Home Front in Rural America during World War II The Home Front
		Food and other basic commodities were needed to support the troops and allied populations in Europe, so they were rationed at home.
		The papers also hammered home what civilians could do on the home front.
	www.livinghistoryfarm.org /farminginthe40s/life_06.html (367 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: WORLD WAR II
		On the home front during World War II Texans sacrificed whatever was necessary to support "our boys overseas." Rationing became a way of life-stamp books for meat, sugar, coffee, shoes, rubber, auto parts, and eventually gas became a necessity.
		During these war years Stevenson improved the state highway system, raised public school salaries, initiated a building program for the University of Texas, and emphasized the necessity of soil conservation.
		Yet during World War II the most obvious changes in Texas were demographic and economic.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/WW/npwnj_print.html (1434 words)

	World War II / Hagen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		World War II Projects - Great list of links from a Texas high school history teacher.
		World War II - Look over the Table of Contents for your country, leaders, timelines, etc.
		The Home Front during World War II - Great list that includes links for Allies and Axis countries.
	www.kn.pacbell.com /wired/fil/pages/listworldwali4.html (208 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Northern Ireland \| Home front communities recalled
		The roles played by NI's 'home front communities' during World War II are to be marked by a series of events.
		More than £200,000 is being given by the Big Lottery Fund to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of the war under the Home Front Recall programme.
		County Down drama group Stagestruck is staging a play about the war to be performed for the rest of the Banbridge community.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/4265190.stm (317 words)

	Memories revived with book, "Minnesota Goes to War: The Home Front During World War II"
		The book is "Minnesota Goes to War: The Home Front During World War II," by Dave Kenney (Minnesota Historical Society Press, $29.95) and it brought back all manner of memories to this almost-septuagenarian.
		Kenney covers the entire gamut of home front efforts during wartime, from Boy Scout paper drives, buying war bonds, victory gardens, prisoner-of-war labor camps to evoke memories of a time when a nation united against a common enemy at home and abroad.
		It's too bad he didn't spend more time with books about Minnesota in war time; I think particularly of Samuel Hynes's acclaimed "The Growing Seasons," which was short listed last year for a Minnesota Book Award in autobiography.
	www.hometownsource.com /2004/October/4wood.html (710 words)

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