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  2. United States home front during World War II - Wikipedia

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    Post-war era. The United States home front during World War II supported the war effort in many ways, including a wide range of volunteer efforts and submitting to government-managed rationing and price controls. There was a general feeling of agreement that the sacrifices were for the national good during the war.

  3. Keep Calm and Carry On - Wikipedia

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    Keep Calm and Carry On was a motivational poster produced by the Government of the United Kingdom in 1939 in preparation for World War II. The poster was intended to raise the morale of the British public, threatened with widely predicted mass air attacks on major cities. [1][2] Although 2.45 million copies were printed, and the Blitz did in ...

  4. Home front during World War II - Wikipedia

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    British poster by A. R. Thomson. The term " home front " covers the activities of the civilians in a nation at war. World War II was a total war; homeland military production became vital to both the Allied and Axis powers. Life on the home front during World War II was a significant part of the war effort for all participants and had a major ...

  5. Timeline of the United Kingdom home front during World War II

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    3 June 1939. The Military Training Act, Britain's first peacetime draft, comes into force. All men aged 20–21 are now liable to call-up for four years military service as 'Militiamen'. 24 August 1939. Given the worsening situation in Europe, Parliament is recalled and immediately enacts the Emergency Powers (Defence) Act 1939, granting the ...

  6. We Can Do It! - Wikipedia

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    poster from 1943. " We Can Do It! " is an American World War II wartime poster produced by J. Howard Miller in 1943 for Westinghouse Electric as an inspirational image to boost female worker morale. The poster was little seen during World War II. It was rediscovered in the early 1980s and widely reproduced in many forms, often mistakenly called ...

  7. United Kingdom home front during World War II - Wikipedia

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    The United Kingdom home front during World War II covers the political, social and economic history during 1939–1945. The war was expensive and financed through high taxes, selling off assets, and accepting large amounts of Lend Lease from the US and Canada. The US provided $30 billion in munitions, while Canada also contributed aid.

  8. Rosie the Riveter - Wikipedia

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    Rosie the Riveter is an allegorical cultural icon in the United States who represents the women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies. [1][2] These women sometimes took entirely new jobs replacing the male workers who joined the military. She is widely recognized in the "We ...

  9. Jes Wilhelm Schlaikjer - Wikipedia

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    In the Face of Obstacles-Courage, US WWII propaganda poster. In 1942, he was chosen as the War Department artist during World War II. [1] [2] Schlaikjer painted posters for recruitment, war bonds, the Red Cross, the infantry, the Signal Corps, Military Police, the Army Air Force, the Marines, the Navy, and the Women's Army Corps.