Coping with the War At home

The OPA is the Office of Price Administration which fights inflation of the economy by freezing prices of goods. The OSRD was the Office of Scientific Research & Development. They were scientists that were brought into the war to find new ways like new technology to defeat their enemy. Americans were rationed during the war on many everyday needed items such as gasoline, shoes, food, etc.. Today, we are lucky to not have been rationed during the war in Iraq and Afghanistan like WW2. In WW2 people were rationed on gasoline and food, todays society would freak out if that ever happened again.

U.S. Gets Ready to Fight

Phillip Randolph was an American Labor leader who organized a march on Washington. The WAAC was known as the Women Association Auxillary Corps. They were women who served in the war performing important tasks such as being nurses, pilots, electricians and so on, while men were sent out to fight in the war. Before the war started, African Americans were treateed poorly and unfairly. Although when the war progressed, African American did too.

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Hardships duing the Great Depression

Families would lose their car and house during the Great Depression. Adults would lose their job, so there was no sort of income to support their families. Parents could not provide their children with food, could not provide themselves with electricity, or whatever needs to be paid for to use in the house such as water. People would roam the streets in search of food in garbage cans eating left overs. Everybody was wild for food.

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Families would lose their car and house during the Great Depression. Families would lose their jobs, so there was no sort of income to support their household. They could not provide food, electricity for the house, or anything that needs to be paid for to be used like water. People would roam the streets searching in garbage cans eating leftovers. Everybody was wild for food.

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The Great Depression-Bam!

During the "Great Depression," 94% of Americans made less than $5,000 a year. That is a horrible salary/earning per year an you would not survive todays economy on your own unless you were living under someone elses roof. "Wall Street," was important to American business because it was successful and was prosperous to American Economy. Investors invested into stock(getting a share of a business) and can trade/sell stocks to make even more money. If the stock market crash did not cause the Great Depression, it would be: Tariffs, war debt, crisis in the farm sector, easy credit(farmers go into debt with credit), and unequal income. Todays society goes through what we call the Great Recession. It somewhat relates to the Great Depression because people have been losing jobs, prices on goods are still high, but, you can invest into stocks to make some money. There are numerous stocks you can invest to and become wealthy from.

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WWII (pt. 2)

Adolf Hitler lead the Nazi's in Germany during World War 2. Countries he invaded include: Austria, Czechoslaovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway, France, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, and the Soviet Union.
Winston Churchill believed the Munich Agreement was useless. From his perspective, it will lead to war anyways and he did not want to give in to appeasement to Hitler. Adolf Hitler used a tactic called "Blitzkreig", which is you can say its a "quick war". Blitzkreig is when the military uses brute and "godly" force to abuse their rival enemy, trying not to allow any opposing force and ending the war quickly; catching their enemy off-guard.

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WWII

Hitler hated the Treaty of Versailles because it hurt Germany's ego. Germany also had to pay off all war debts. Inflation in Germany was dreadful. Adolph Hitler was the dictator of Germany, other dictators in the war included: Joseph Stalin of Russia, Benito Mussolini of Italy, Hideki Tojo of Japan, and Francisco Franco of Spain. Germany, Italy, and Russia's dictators were known as the,"Facsist Party." Italy and Germany were anti-communist, while Russia was a communist state. While on the other side of the world, there was War and tragedies going on, the U.S. did NOT want to get involved. They would rather be in a state of isolationism. On the other hand, Roosevelt wanted to get involved in this war.

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