Examples of home front in the following topics:
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- During World War II, the traditional gender division of labor changed, as the "home" or domestic female sphere expanded to include the "home front".
- Nineteen million American women filled out the home front labor force, not only as "Rosie the Riveters" in war factory jobs, but also in transportation, agriculture, and office work of every variety.
- Describe the changing roles of women as the "home" or domestic sphere was expanded to include the "home front."
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- During World War II the United States home front and its labor market changed radically.
- During World War II, the United States home front supported the war effort in many ways, including a variety of volunteer efforts and by submitting to government-managed rationing and price controls.
- Before the war, most grocery stores, dry cleaners, drugstores, and department stores offered home delivery service.
- Roosevelt stated that the efforts of civilians at home were as critical to winning the war as the efforts of the soldiers themselves.
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- The U.S. mobilized its home front in WWI, resulting in bureaucratic
confusion but also expansion of the wartime economy and women in the workforce.
- The home front of the United States in World War
I saw a systematic mobilization of its entire population and economy to produce the soldiers, food,
munitions, and money needed to win the war.
- Although the U.S. entered the war
in 1917, there had been very little planning or recognition of the problems
other Allies had to solve on their home fronts.
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first 15 months of the war effort on the home front involved an amazing parade
of mistakes, misguided enthusiasm and confusion.
- Home front efforts led by women, such
as large war gardens and domestic "victory gardens," were an important part of U.S. entry into WWI.
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- Armed Forces and on the home front during World War II.
- Thus women rarely left the home to earn an income.
- The broad changes in the role of women caused by a need for labor on the home front affected also the role of Hispanic women, who, additionally to serving as nurses, worked as secretaries, helped build airplanes, made ammunition in factories, and worked in shipyards.
- After returning home, Hispanic soldiers experienced the same discrimination as before departure.
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- Numerous efforts were made to bolster domestic morale for the war on the home front and keep the agriculture sector afloat.
- It was emphasized to home front urbanites and suburbanites that the produce from their gardens would help to lower the price of vegetables needed by the U.S.
- Fruit and vegetables harvested in these home and community plots was estimated to be 9-10 million tons, an amount equal to all commercial production of fresh vegetables .
- This WWI-era poster depicts two women carrying a basket of vegetables in front of woman in uniform on horseback, holding a U.S. flag.
- Describe how Victory Gardens and the Women's Land Army of America contributed to food supplies at home during World War I.
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- Nineteen million American women filled out the home front labor force, not only as "Rosie the Riveters" in war factory jobs, but in transportation, agricultural, and office work of every variety.
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- Wetherington (2005) argues that the plain folk (of Georgia) supported secession in the name of their families, homes, and notions of white liberty.
- During the war, the established patriarchy continued to control the home front and keep it functioning, even though growing numbers of plain folk joined the new wartime poor.
- First and foremost, they sought to protect hearth and home from Yankee threats.
- Wetherington reports that although enough men remained at home to preserve the paternalistic social order, there were too few to prevent mounting deprivation.
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- The home front of the United States in World War I saw a systematic mobilization of the entire population and the economy to produce the soldiers, food supplies, munitions and money needed to win the war.
- Once the U.S. openly joined the war, Congress worked to ensure that Americans at home and abroad had sufficient resources, and thus Congress adopted the Fuel and Food Control Act in 1917.
- The War Industries Board (WIB), created in the mid-summer of 1917, was another federal agency tasked with ensuring that Americans at home and abroad had access to acceptably-priced merchandise and equipment.
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- Amid protests at home demanding an immediate pullout, President Nixon implemented a strategy of replacing American troops with Vietnamese troops, known as Vietnamization.
- Abrams, commander of the American military forces in Vietnam, advocated for smaller-scale operations against the logistics of the two North Vietnam armies, the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and the National Liberation Front (NLF); more openness with the media; and more meaningful cooperation with the South Vietnamese forces.
- To this end, Nixon and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger employed Chinese and Soviet foreign policy gambits to defuse some of the anti-war opposition at home and to pressure North Vietnam into favoring negotiations.
- Cambodia's ports were immediately closed to North Vietnamese military supplies, and the government demanded that the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and National Liberation Front (NLF) forces, both northern armies, be removed from the border areas within 72 hours.
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- This was total war, not in terms of killing civilians, but rather in terms of destroying homes, farms, and railroads.
- Grant then took advantage of the situation and launched attacks on this thirty mile and poorly defended front, ultimately leading to the surrender of Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox.