Rationing of food was also introduced on the home front to help provide more food for troops. ... During this time many food items were in short supply, consequently shoppers were forced to spend hours in queues hopeful for something unusual such as fish. ... Women were needed in much more than keeping home life normal during the war, as men were away fighting. ... It was the mass production from factories on the home front that enabled the Allies to win the war... (finish paragraph) The Home Front formed a crucial part of the combat and eventual end of the war. ...

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Ford found a job in a machine shop. ... He worked for about seven years and then returned home to his family and their farm. ... While at home Ford found a job working part-time for the Westinghouse Engine Company. After a few years Ford set up a small machine shop on the farm and began tinkering with engines and machines. ... Ford died at his home on April 7, 1947. ...

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The spiritual and educational value of having the homesteaders create and build their own homes and community may have inspired the widespread return to country life. As part of the project, people unaccustomed to manual labor did not hesitate to swing picks in an effort to speed up work on the foundation of their home. ... The end of World War II brought thousands of young servicemen back to America to pick up their lives and start new families in new homes with new jobs, and American industry expanded to meet peacetime needs. ... Owning a home became a tangible reality for more Americans, ...

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A new disposition towards form over function led to fluctuating trends in the market, including drastic yearly changes in items ranging from clothing to automobiles to home appliances. Americans exercised their new purchase power by investing in new chrome-laden automobiles, purchasing colorful home furnishings and appliances, and keeping current with the latest fashions. ... Hobby shops and do-it-yourself kits flourished during the 1950s as Americans utilized what recreation specialists referred to as their "Fifth Freedom." ... Society still equated food and home cooking with happiness, home ...

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The movie theatre, barber shops, restaurants, and many other public places refused them service or segregated them from the whites. ... So in turn they had two names, the ones that their parents gave them which they used at home, and the American ones that they used at school and on the playground. ... They were the ones who wanted to fit in so much that they even seemed to have neglected their on culture to fit in and now they were betrayed by the place they called home, America. ... They earned a sense of respect for their efforts and patriotism for the country they called home, America. ...

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The Third Reich had a hard time mustering the female population because they had been bombarded with the idea that they should stay at home and take care of the children and the household instead of working in a factory all day, they had been convinced that they were supposed to stay at home. Women in Nazi Germany when called upon to carry out these tasks were more apprehensive to leave their homes unchecked, due to the fact that they had been drilled to be traditional house wives. ... Shop and office leave alone, Your true life work lies at home." (geschichte.hu-berlin.com) F...

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"Women should be the tenders of the hearth, keepers of the home, rearers of children, and the moral, spiritual members of the family. ... She described the reaction to these responsibilities as "a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States As she [the housewife] made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of herself the question " I...

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He returned with the doctor to his home were Helen his brothers wife nurses him back to health. ... One such individual is Porky Logan who is the owner of one of the two local Stop and Shops that had gas pumps so he would sneak out of town after Randy's curfew and trade with the Radiated people who Randy's town consol had banished, do to there efforts to try and infect the rest of Fort repose. ...

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Shopping centers began popping up. ... (FDR Memorial Home Page) Roosevelt, taking into consideration of the United States" condition, decided to implement his solution to the United States" economic downfall, which he entitled "The New Deal." ...

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(Veenstra) His miss-treatment of Jews began with laws forcing Jews out of certain areas, shops and schools. ... It also didn't help that the soviets had the "home field advantage- so to speak. ...

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Then his time as Commander in Chief Home Forces which he held before going on to become Chief of the Imperial General Staff. ... He had buildings pulled down and roads repaired and fought to get the finances to develop the camp with suitable accommodation and shops. ...

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As Hitler and the Nazi's power rose in Germany during the 1920s, 30s and 40s, after World War I, we begin to see how this happened and compare it to the concepts of Democracy which we live by today. We can explore how Democracy had failed in Nazi, Germany and relate it to the events, which surround...

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While the Japanese Imperial Army returned home in celebration, the Americans were left to pick up the pieces left from the ambush. ... Also, the Pearl Harbor attack left the naval base's most important amenities - oil storage depots, submarine docks, repair shops, shipyards – unharmed (MacMillian). ...

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