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Impact of WWII on the American Homefront: Impact of WWII

Topics

TOPIC IDEAS

Entertainment (movies, music, radio)
Blackouts/Air raids
Fashion/Clothing
Japanese American Internment
Racism
Rationing
Victory Gardens
Women in the workplace

Links

LINKS TO ARTICLES & WEBSITES

1940's
American Fashion Goes to War
American Women in WWII
Presented by The History Channel
Economy of WWII
Enemy Aliens: Japanese Americans in World War II
The Homefront
Mobilization of Women
The Postwar Period Through the 1950s
Racism in World War II
Rationing
Victory Gardens
Excerpt from "Still Keep 'Em Growing" Written by H. W. Hochbaum, Chairman, Victory Garden Committee, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Published in House and Garden, January 1944.

Women at Work

Provided by the Library of Congress