Question

(World War 2) US Homefront Support Efforts (Include information on Draft and Rationing)

US Mobilization Efforts


Weapons Introduced

Cost in US and Total Lives

US Involvement (list major battles/ Generals)

Answer 1

@jigglypuff314

Answer 2

@Robin.Hood

Answer 3

What is the question asking? To write responses to each of the prompts?

Answer 4

Yes

Answer 5

What do you not understand about the prompts? Or is that you don't know the information associated with the war?

Answer 6

I don't know the information..

Answer 7

Mmkay. So basically the US was practicing extreme isolationism at the start of the war. Roosevelt started to lean towards interventionism when he saw that the allies needed assistance. Before that, congress had set up a bunch of different acts that were meant to keep the United States out of the war. Roosevelt wanted to help but he didn't want to "take sides". So the cash and carry act was added where a country could buy from the united states as long as it was using their respective ships and the transaction had to be done through cash. As well as that Roosevelt kept pushing to get involved in the war. He started to do things that were clearly acts against Japan. He put economic sanctions on them etc. So at this point it was clear that the United States had taken a side, although they weren't directly involved in the war at this point. In 1941 congress passed the lend lease act which allowed the president to sellf arms or give defensive aid to other nations without cash. At this point Americans expected to be involved in the war, but that didn't mean that they wanted to be. As time went on support for interventionism grew. So the final straw that shoved the US into the war was Japan bombing pearl harbor on December 7 1941. It caused the Atlantic Charter to be created which was the building blocks of the UN. Peace time drafts were implemented and involvement was imminent. The ally powers launched massive attacks through the English Channel as well as up through North Africa. On june 6 1944 what is commonly known as D-Day occurred. Ally troops landed on beaches in Normandy and the Allys continued to push into France. By December Hitler had ordered a massive counter attack which is now called the battle of the bulge. The Germans lost, and ran. The Nazi's surrendered May 8 1945, which is known as V-E Day.

Answer 8

That's the whole gist of it, there's a lot more details that were involved in the war, but if you have any questions please let me know!