Americans In Wartime

1. Mobilizing the Home Front Combat Training • - During WW2 _________________ Americans served in the military • - Winning the war depended on _______________ the home front to support & _________________ the armed forces • - ________, ______ & ________ bases were built all over the country • - Recruits were trained to fight in the jungles of the _______________, deserts of North Africa & towns/ farmlands of _________________ • War Production Board: • Helped factories shift from making ____________________ • to making guns, ships, aircrafts & __________________________ • Women Joined All Armed Services • - Carrier pilots from base to base • - ___________________________ • - Were ________allowed in combat Americans In Wartime In 1942 alone American workers produced more than _____________ planes & shipped over ___________________ tons of goods As production of war goods went ____, production of consumer goods went _______ • _____________________; • limitations on the amounts of certain goods that people could buy • Rationing coupons bought coffee, sugar, meat, gas • “Waste Makes Haste” • ____________________________________; • During WW2, vegetable gardens planted to combat food shortages in the U.S. Over 20,000,000 gardens produced _____% of all veggies grown in the country! - To pay for the war, the gov’t raised ____________& sold ___________________- __________________________helped to sell these bonds • The war ended the _________________ • - __________________________fell = millions of jobs opened in factories • - Minority workers found jobs where they had been ____________before