The Home Front
United States
Joining the War after the attack on Pearl Harbor brought the US out of the great depression. With more and more job opening and more and more men that went into the war the woman had to fill the positions in factories and other jobs that were uncommon for women. Additionally food, gas, and clothing were rationed, and Japanese Americans lost their citizens’ rights. Image: http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTkiT6zJzdbdozEGqkTw7-nkxpW8tR_HpqMAazHSOKt4HOScHUZ8g:homefront.mrdonn.org/rosie1.jpg |
Great Britain
The daily life for the People in Great Britain was impossible. With the Nazis permanently bombing London and other big cities, and with always fearing for their lives and helping the injured the nation came closer together in the most parts. However, some took their advantage in that situation and with that the crime rates rose. Image: http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRxceR4fiuJQeJP-UQ_5GILsSiRDzg2DCcR26q0rSINDb-5xsTwrQ:www.ukhomefront.co.uk/images/HOMEFRONT_LOGO_(2).jpg |
Translation:" Work for the Victory like how we fight for it"
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Germany
The German Home Front during World War 2 was mostly characterized by the War industry and the fear of the Bombing campaigns of the Allied forces. But additionally the daily live for Jewish Germans got destroyed. At first they only got separated from non-Jewish people in public places and they got fired from their work places, but as the time went by the Nazi German government started collecting the Jews and bringing them to concentration camps. Image: http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSDZA5TDPOXvBiMJXi6vxPMoozVQq-ipMPhdS67GyLUIkuE_thV:imageweb-cdn.magnoliasoft.net/bridgeman/supersize/pnp310537.jpg |
Japan
In the time of the war Japan was the most industrial country in Asia. Their only problem was that they had no resources of raw material. But the biggest impact on the home front japan had during World War 2 was the change of the role of woman in the society. When they used to not work at all before World War 2 and just stayed at home they now actively worked in the factories and helped with the war industry, because of the shortage of men during the war. Image: http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ74UuPW_CtbeullkSTGZbhXiCcffE2I0oyfO3-cXRWgH_Tq3sp:histclo.com/imagef/date/2013/12/pzhvs.jpg |
Soviet Union
The woman in the Soviet Union had a different position in the society than woman in other countries, even at the beginning of the war. They participated as fighters in the armed forces and they also played a proportionately greater economic role than the women of the other major countries. Additionally a big issue on the home front of the Soviet Union was the shortage of food and the rationing of food that resulted from that. Image: http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ1hvgdpNCZTCDP3l82yi58ygpXNKio8fqvlUOzpqj6t14VYJU1XA:www.history.com/news/history-lists/files/2014/05/pows.jpg |
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