1. Bender, David L.  Opposing Viewpoints in American History. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 1996.
• “It seems questionable whether the Forgotten Man is likely to share very handsomely in the New Deal.
• “When under conditions of modern warfare our shores are threatened by hostile forces, the power to protect must be commensurate with the threatened danger.”
• “If the United States were to be the first to release this new means of indiscriminate destruction upon mankind, she would sacrifice public support throughout the world and precipitate the race for armaments.”

2. Bondi, Victor.  American Decades 1940-1949.  Detroit, MI: Gale Research Inc., 1995.
• The years 1940-1949 proved to be one of the most momentous decades in the history of the world.
• The ordeal of total war engulfed most of the European continent, as well as East Asia and North Africa.
• Naval entanglements took place on all the oceans.
3. Cole, Edward.  Personal Interview.  17 April 2006.
4. Hartmann, Susan.  “Woman Fight the War from Home.”  Women and World War II.  Boston: 1982.  19 April 2006.  <http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/st/~cg3/pageone.html>
• Suddenly as a result of the war much of the supplies that a housewife used to complete her everyday chores were gone.
• A 1940's housewife could not buy a staple like sugar at the grocery store, because the sugar cane supply was significantly diminshed.
• Other items that women needed to ration were silk, nylon, rayon, cotton, and wool.
5. "Home front during World War II."  Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 10 May 2006. <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Home_front_during_World_War_II&oldid=52490597>.
• The wartime effort brought about a coalition of the government and industry that became an important power in its own right.
• President Eisenhower warned about the danger of too much power in the Military-industrial complex in the following decade.
• Automobile plants ceased production of passenger cars, creating a shortage of them in the consumer market.
6. Reinhardt, Claudia.  “Rural Life in the 1940’s.”  Farming in the 1940’s.  19 April 2006.  <http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe40s/life_01.html>
• In 1941, the U.S. was just beginning to come out of the Great Depression.
• The war meant that people had to put up with more hardships "for the duration" – however long it would take for the war to end.
• When Pearl Harbor was attacked and the U.S. entered the war, only one-third of farms had electricity to run refrigerators or washing machines in the house or lights and milking machines in the barn. Only 25 percent of farms had telephones.

7. Schultz, Stanley K.  “World War II: The Impact at Home.”  American History 102.  University of Wisconsin: 1999.  19 April 2006.  <http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/lectures/lecture21.html>

• Once the United States was fully committed to the war in December of 1941, patriotism soared in American society.
• The New Deal and World War II brought about a political, psychological, and economic shift to the right in the United States.
• The wartime economy brought about full employment and, in doing so, achieved what New Deal programs had been unable to do. In 1940, there were 8 million Americans unemployed. By 1941, however, unemployment was almost unheard of.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A small boat rescues a seaman from the 31,800 ton USS West Virginia.  Everything changed after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is an advertisement concerning with the availability of products to the American people that were very limited and as a result considered "rationed" items. This meant that a housewife could only purchase so much of it at a time, assuming of course that she could find it at the store to begin with.

 

 

 

 

 

TheOscar Meyer Co. delivery truck implores citizens to "Invest 10% of your income in War Bonds for Victory!"

 

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