Home+Front+During+WWII

__**Justin Spitzer:**__

**I. Home Front During WWII** **A. Germany** · Most success in planned war economy · War Raw Materials Board · Bad rationing-barely enough to survive · Auxillary Service Law- required all male noncombatants between 17-60 to work on jobs necessary for war **B. Great Britain** · Ministry of Munitions under DL George-insured companies would produce materials for war **C. France** · Difficulty organizing war economy · Clemenceau established civilian control of a total war government **D. Opposition to the war** · Strike activity increased after only two years of war · Organized protests · Britain created Defense of the Realm Act (DORA)-allowed authorities to arrest dissenters of war and censor newspapers to keep the image of war positive · Governments released propaganda to try to make people serve **E. Labor in the Home Front** · Women took up jobs to make up for men out at war · Worked as factory workers, farm laborers, truck drivers, etc · Men didn’t agree to women taking their jobs

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