... meat( Blanden, M.G 1999, Australia: All Our Yesterdays). To keep track of their purchases they had rationing books that contained a number of coupons for each family. The rationing of food and supplies was continued after the war until 1950 when it was disbanded. Other changes include the significance of the change in woman's ... , many workplaces lost their workers. This was a huge change for women as they took over the jobs. Women worked in factories, on farms and in stores. They made ammunition, uniforms, weapons and helped build tanks, trucks and aeroplanes. They also operated tractor...

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... life have been greatly influenced by a good man who was in many ways, my hero. "Poppaw" displayed a strong sense of tradition and family. Even after his family members had passed away, he valued preserving and rebuilding the old homes and farms where he had once lived. He loved tending a huge garden, and nothing thrilled him more than growing his own vegetables and then ... sitting down to a big family dinner that "mommaw" had cooked. He loved having company and talking about the old times. I will never forget an old story that ... "poppaw" always told about his first job, which was di...

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Imagine your entire family being told they had to pack their bags but only as much as one could carry. Then imagine being taken from your home and bused to an internment camp somewhere ... windy desert. According to the United States government, this was being done for your own protection. You"ll have to leave your friends, farms, boats, cars and other personal property. This is what happened to the Wakatsuki family and many other Japanese-American citizens as told in the book Farewell to Manzanar. President Franklin D. Roosevelt made this happen by signing Executive Order ... ...

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At the end of World War II the effects were everywhere. It affected every country, and every family in some way or form. Ukraine is one of the countries who had suffered the most from the war and the consequences of it. From the ruling of the Germans ( ... wealth in ruins. The total damage during the war was 1000 billion US$ throughout the nation including the destruction of 16 000 industrial enterprises, 714 towns/cities, 28 000 state farms, etc. The road to recovery wasn't that easy in the beginning due to the famine of 1946, but steadily improved with the Soviets "Five-Year" plans. Not onl...

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... October 1942, more than half a million women were working in the workforce, taking over jobs that were once dominated by the males and on top of this they still had a family to tend for. With this they showed how they could do more than be just housewives etc. it let them show what they were really capable of. Women got to ... on top of all that many still went home after it all and managed to act as a mother and housewife as well! Whilst the men were fighting, lots of the farms lost their laborers and food production wasn't being kept up because of it. Women set in here helping as well...

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... go out to find dead bodies to look to see how many had dead for their country. The Americans had found 150 Japanese fighter planes. They had found them in farms and navy bases and army bases and feilds and houses. The Japanese had done a horriable thing that morning that would change America for ever. Rosevelt said that this will be ... remembered for ever in America and that it will be remember by its horr, disugsh, scareynish, amazement, and Sorro / pitty. Many people had family members in the army and navy and now they gone and they will never see them again. Many great countries hav...

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