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Author:

Hanes, Richard Clay, 1946-

Title:

American home front in World War II : almanac / Richard C. Hanes and Sharon M. Hanes ; Allison McNeill, project editor.

Publisher:

UXL,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

xli, 227, lix [i.e. 15] p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

World War, 1939-1945.--Juvenile literature.
World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Juvenile literature.
United States--History--1933-1945--Juvenile literature.
United States--Social conditions--1933-1945.--Juvenile literature.

Other Authors:

Hanes, Sharon M.
McNeill, Allison.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Mobilization : industrial conversion, industrial-military complex institutionalized, employment expansion, end of Great Depression, government war agencies and commissions to promote home front mobilization -- Financing the war : taxes, war bond drives, scrap drives, controlling the wartime economy, wage and price controls, rationing, victory gardens, consumer goods controls, federal revenue stamps -- Farming prosperity : production expands and prices rise, fewer but bigger farms, rise in status of farmers -- Working women : industry jobs, managing home life, service women's clubs -- Women in uniform : military roles on the home front -- Miracle of war production : industrial expansion and population relocations -- Politics during the war : presidential politics in 1940 and 1944, end of some New Deal programs, congressional elections of 1942, congressional actions, victory tax, conservative coalition -- Ethnicity on the home front : Black Americans, Japanese internment, Mexican Braceros program, German Americans, Italian Americans -- Wartime entertainment : Hollywood productions, USO shows, recruiting and bond posters, book clubs, rise of the paperback, radio programs, patriotic songs, the pin-up, jitterbug dance -- Home front organizations : military bases, U.S. Merchant Marine, U.S. Public Health Service, Army Transportation Corps, American Red Cross, support organizations, community centers, Selective Service, German and Italian POW camps -- Civil Defense : Civil Defense, Civil Air Patrol, Coast Guard Auxiliary, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Service -- Everyday life : a cross-section of how America's regions changed and made adjustments to war, blackouts, curfews -- Transition to peacetime (1943-1945) : postwar industrial transition to consumer good production, G.I. Bill, education and home ownership, baby boom, television media growth, big business versus small business in transition, legacies of the home front experience.

Series:

UXL American home front in World War II reference library

ISBN:

9780787676513 (hardcover)
0787676519 (hardcover)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)54989204

LCCN:

2004008921

Locations:

E7OX522 -- State Historical Society of Iowa Library (Des Moines)

F3OX522 -- State Historical Society of Iowa Library (Iowa City)

IBAX173 -- North Iowa Area Community College Library (Mason City)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)