Friday, March 26, 2010
Mobilizing the Homefront during WWII
World War II was instrumental in improving the economy after the New Deal Programs created by the Roosevelt administration. The Gross National Product increased to $211 billion dollars by the end of WWII(1945). Although this prosperity created many opportunities for women and farmers, the country was still called upon to support the soldiers by rationing. What would it be like if you were expected to ration the daily items that you enjoy?
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Class, I'm almost out of my Music and internet stamps. How are you doing with your ration stamps.
ReplyDeleteI ran out of nearly all of my ration stamps by the time Thursday was over, haha. If I lived during WWII, I probablyyy wouldn't have enjoyed having to give up some of my daily items. But it helped the country as a whole, so I would have just dealed with it. As long as it helps other Americans, I'm fine with it. It's definitely not fun though, haha.
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ReplyDeleteI'm totally out of my Music Stamps.
It's really difficult to conserve, I never thought about saving energy and food for others that actually need it. I went on a date, had a strawberry milkshake... oops!There goes another stamp. I predict that everyone else has already used their texting stamps.hah.
- Tamarra Valero
Period 6
Strawberry shake takes milk, strawberries, and ice cream! What a treat, that should be two stamps:). We have become a nation of consumers.
ReplyDeleteI would not like to ration because I'm just about all out of my "Sweet" stamps. I'm in trouble so I haven't been able to use up all my texting stamps so I still have plenty of those... :( Music is gone! That is the first thing I do every morning is turn up the music! I'm not a very good rationalizer... if that is even a word... But thats what moms are for!!! :)
ReplyDeleteI would deffinatly hate to ration my luxuries because I ran out of everything yesterday. I first ran out of my telephone and text stamps the first day, then went my television and Internet stamps. I ran out of my sweet stamps last cause I rarely have time to eat them. Music would also be one of the first to go. And I know I would probably die without my music. Haha I'm a technology freak.(:
ReplyDelete-Kagardy p.5
Haha I am out of stamps. But what if lets say I was a Marine in WWII. I wouldn't be able to ration, but consume the rations that would come to me and other fellow marines. My mother would probably send me supplies like jerky or socks etc or do her thing wife other troop wives. While my father would be one of the supervisors who would be in charge of sending rations to our troops since that is what he does. When we lived in S. Korea he also had to ship out armored vehicles around the world.
ReplyDeleteEither way my family would show patriotism, but what about the citizens who are against the war? Some would take advantage maybe to make money or would take it to mind, but wouldn't do anything about it. Just because people live in the US doesnt mean that they are patriotic cause some wouldnt want to participate in that or in any supportive events.
-Tim Dowling
Period 7
Tim, great take on the solidier perspective. Also, you bring up a good point, to what recourse does the nation have against unpatriotic civilians?
ReplyDeleteI would not really want to ration my daily items unless it was completely necessary. It would not be good have to worry about running out of things because now days we can go to a store and pick up what ever we need
ReplyDeleteJordan S P5