what was life like during war world 2?
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It sucked and everyone was living in fear that they would be under attack suddenly one day. But, everyone also starved because they had no food (nothing was getting imported) and then almost no stores were open because they had nothing to sell\nAnd, with the Jewish, it stunk even more for them because Hitler hated the Jews and was doing horrible things to them, like putting the children in "showers" which were really a bunch of chemicals that killed them
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Im sure people asked this in ww2 too. what did we get in return?  The end of the war.
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post war nort and south economy was very different. The north was based of inustrial things like factories and railroads. In the south it was based of agriculural production.  In the south family roles were as followed: wife cooks and cares for kids. boys help on farm. Girls learn how to cook and clean . The father ran the farm. In the north the father worked in a factory and some childern wouold too only boys would. Gneder wise was man over woman
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Try these websites for information about the 1950's:\n\nhttp://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade50.html\n\n1950-1959\nThe end of World War II brought thousands of young servicemen back to America to pick up their lives and start new families in new homes with new jobs. With an energy never before experienced, American industry expanded to meet peacetime needs. Americans began buying goods not available during the war, which created corporate expansion and jobs.  Growth everywhere.  The baby boom was underway...\n\nhttp://home.att.net/~boomers.fifties.teenmag/1950_history.html
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World War I: 1914-1918\nWorld War II: 1939-1945
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It wasn't fun, you can bet on that.  Who knew if we would win or not.  All of my friends went into the service.  So did I.  Some of my friends never came back.  Limited gas. Certain food not available. Hard to buy new clothes. However, life went on and we finally pulled out of it.  When I came home from Italy in 1946 things had already returned to 90% of normal.  After the war, things boomed.
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Basically World World II was like a continuation of World World I. Essentially this is what happened. World War I starts (aka - The Great War pre WWII) and afterwards its like everyone took a break. I'm not joking either. It was like a pause for 20 years. In the early 1930's, Japan invaded China. China actually had the most amount of casualties, not Russia or Eastern Europe. \n\nMost countries blamed Germany and so Germany had many sanction and restrictions put on the country. Hitler played off of these emotions and blamed the Jewish population for all of Germany's problems. At this time, Hitler was also quickly moving up in the ranks and finally became Dictator. \n\nHitler then started annexing countries in the mid to left 1930's and every country began to appease him. After he took over Poland and much of France, it was too late. The non-aggression pact between Germany and Russia made Hitler essentially invulnerable because from Eastern Europe was essentially all his to take over minus Russia. (Hitler would later reneg on the non-agreesion pact)\n\nThe United States needed an excuse to get into WWII and they finally got one on June 6, 1941 - Pearl Harbor. \n\nAbout 6 million jews were killed and 6 million gypsies, homosexuals, etc were killed. \n\nIn China, about 20-25 million were killed.
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What was it like living in that attic for so long? How did you feel about the Nazis?
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There will not be a WW3 as the defintion of WW1 and 2 is that they were the 1st and second World Wars in the 20th Century, we are now in the 21st Century!  I don't think anything like that will happen again, the stakes are too high now with nuclear weapons.  If it did happen there would not be the same community survival spirit due to the selfishness of modern society.  I however wish we still had the grit and determination along with community spirit wichi existed during both World Wars.\n\nTo answer the question, if there were another big War like WW2 I would do what I could to survive and support my countrys efforts (unless we are the bad ones in which case to hell with survival, I'd be in the resistance!).
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Its all in one’s perspective.  I was born before World War II and during my life I spent my early years on a farm that had no running water except for a hand-pump at the kitchen sink that drew from a cistern.  There was no bathroom in the house and bed pots were under every bed with an outhouse.  Baths were once a week with in a galvanized metal tub on the floor of the kitchen.  In my early years heat was from wood.  The sheets on the beds were sewn together from flour sacks.  Cloths were mostly hand me downs.  We raised and grew stored and canned all of our food except for staples such as sugar.  Although we had a tractor, horses we used to farm every day.  We “watched” the radio and during warm months went to the nearest small town a couple of times a month and watched movies on the outside wall of a large building. We entertained ourselves and attended the county fair.  I remember when the telephone was first installed and it was a party-line.\n\nWe never considered ourselves poor.  My generation and those older knew all of this from personal experience and we still know it.  It was a self sufficient culture.  While many modern advances have been made, in the rural areas of the United States such attitudes yet exist.  \n\nIt is less a matter of understanding what it is to be poor than it is to know that one must be responsible for their acts and to be self sufficient.
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Looks like you need to read books! \nIll give you a hint\n\n"history of the second world war"\nby Liddell Hart Basil H.  \n\nits only about military happenings.\nprobably the best book ever written on this field.
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World War II, also, The Second World War, or WWII, was the global military conflict that took place between 1939 and 1945. World War II was the largest and deadliest war in history.\n\nThe war began between Germany and the Allies. Germany was later joined by Italy, Japan, and others, jointly known as the Axis. The Allies at first were made up of Poland, the British Commonwealth, France, and others. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, and in December, Japan attacked the United States. China, which had been at war with Japan since the mid-1930s, also joined the Allies, as eventually did a number of other countries.\n\nItaly surrendered in September 1943, Germany in May 1945. The surrender of Japan marked the end of the war, on September 2, 1945.\n\nIt is possible that up to 62 million people died in the war; estimates vary greatly. Most were civilians who died as a result of disease, starvation, genocide, and the aerial bombing of cities. Estimates place deaths in the Soviet Union at around 23 million, while China suffered about 10 million. Poland suffered the most deaths in proportion to its population of any country, losing approximately 5.6 million out of a pre-war population of 34.8 million (16%).\n\nThe war was responsible for the re-drawing of national boundaries and the creation of new nations, the end of western colonialism, and the beginning of the Cold War. [1]\n\nAfter World War II, Europe was informally split into western and Soviet spheres of influence. Western Europe largely aligned as NATO, and Eastern Europe largely as the Warsaw pact. There was a fundamental shift in power from Western Europe and the British Empire to the new superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union.\n\nIn Asia, the United States' military occupation of Japan led to Japan's democratization. China's civil war continued through and after the war, resulting eventually in the establishment of the People's Republic of China. The former colonies of the European powers began their road to independence.\n\nKey alliances are formed\nOn September 1, the German invasion of Poland began World War II. Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand all declared war on Germany on September 3. Nepal, Newfoundland, Tonga, South Africa and Canada followed suit within days. On September 17, the Soviets invaded Poland from the East. The following year, the USSR annexed the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) together with parts of Romania, and attacked Finland. The German-Soviet agreement was brought to an end by the German invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941.\n\nThe United States of America joined the Allies following the attack on Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941. The Declaration by United Nations, on January 1, 1942, officially united 26 nations as Allies. (The Declaration also formed the basis for the United Nations.) The informal Big 3 alliance of the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and the United States emerged in the latter half of the war, and their decisions determined Allied strategy around the world.\n\n\nDates of joining Allies\n Poland: 1939, 1 September \n United Kingdom: 1939, 3 September \n Australia: 1939, 3 September \n New Zealand: 1939, 3 September \n France: 1939, 3 September \n Nepal: 1939, 4 September \n Newfoundland: 1939, 4 September \n Tonga: 1939, 4 September \n South Africa: 1939, 6 September \n Canada: 1939, 10 September \n Denmark: 1940, 9 April \n Norway: 1940, 9 April \n Belgium: 1940, 10 May \n Luxembourg: 1940, 10 May \n Netherlands: 1940, 10 May \n Free France: 1940, 18 June \n Greece: 1940, 28 October \n Kingdom of Yugoslavia: 1941, 6 April \n Soviet Union: 1941, 22 June \n Tannu Tuva: 1941, 25 June until 1944, 11 October \n Panama: 1941, 7 December \n Philippines: 1941, 7 December \n Costa Rica: 1941, 8 December \n Dominican Republic: 1941, 8 December \n El Salvador: 1941, 8 December \n Haiti: 1941, 8 December \n Honduras: 1941, 8 December \n Nicaragua: 1941, 8 December \n United
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The events leading to World War II, its military operations, diplomacy, statistical data, and results, are discussed under the following headings:\n\nhttp://gi.grolier.com/wwii/wwii_i.html\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, UK.
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Type these words into the search engine of your choice.\n\nWorld War Two.\n\nIf you can ask that question on here you can do your own homework. Stop being so lazy.
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Women roles in World War 2 were very important. Most of them did not get out there and fight. When the men were gone the women did their jobs. Some of their jobs were like: working in factories, shipyards, building aircrafts, etc. They made a big influence in women history. Women also went through hard times. For example items ran low, and there family (men and some women) died during combat! So it was not all about the more freedom and rights they got. During the time of World War Two, many men left for the war, leaving jobs at home. Women promptly went to fill these jobs and others needed during wartime. The challenging part was that many women worked a night shift and still had the responsibility of maintaining the household and raising her children. For mothers with children not old enough to be in school, daycare was hard to find. Banks and grocery shops also made it hard for women to keep the household running. Although some working women had to quit their jobs maintain the household, women were a key part in winning World War 2. Then when the men came home from the Holocaust they wanted all of their jobs back. So the women had to give up their jobs and give them back to the men. Although the women really liked there jobs that they had done for the past months. Latter on they had the women rights and the women could do things that the men had done before. \n\nDuring World War 2 women played an important role overseas and in the homefront and it changed and improved women’s place in the Australian society of today. Before the war few women followed careers. Most jobs for women were traditional roles such as nursing, secretarial or caring jobs. \n\nSome women in World War 2 volunteered for the land army because all the men were away. So the Australian land army was set up to get girls to take the men’s places. They worked on farms at places like Mt Compass, Buckleboo and Gumeracha. They were looked after because they got free work clothes and food. \n\nIn the war women were cooks, stewardesses, transport drivers, signallers, coders, writers, cinematographer operators, visual signallers and there were girls working in classified sections. Others were trained as nurses and motor mechanics. The women go told they would never be permitted to go overseas but in 1941 the government announced that women would now be allowed to enrol in the armed forces. Only nurses would serve overseas and in battle zones. Some 300,000 women served in the army, navy and nursing corps, and a quarter of these served overseas. \n\nThe Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service was formed in 1941. They did not go overseas. They worked with communications. The Women’s Australian Auxiliary Air Force was also formed in 1941. They worked as radio communications and did mechanical repairs. Australian Women’s Army Service formed in 1941 if Australia was attacked they could fight but they could not replace the men fighting. The Australian Army Medical Women’s Service formed in 1942. They were nurses in Britain, Greece, North Africa, Malaya and Papua. \n\nWAAF in 1941 had 29 women and 300 men. The WAAF put signs at universities reading ‘if you are about to graduate, apply for a commission in the WAAF. Each person does a course from navigational and operations to accounts or equipment/ \n\nAt home during the war women made up 40 per cent of the work force in munitions factories. Women worked in aircraft and ship building industries also they worked in industries doing mechanical and maintenance work all the women received training. Women also became tram conductors, bus drivers, taxi drivers, security guards, mail delivers, bread carters and meter readers. Women were paid lower wages then men. Many women hoped that these jobs would still be open to them after the war had ended but they were not. \n\nWorld War 2 changed the lives of Australian women. Before the war women were housewives and mainly looked after the family and home. When the war starte
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I think you will find most of what you are searching for here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States#World_War_I_and_II\n\nGood Luck!!! :-)
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WW1 was about world leadership with japan so we are told and WW2 was about Hitler