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. T
Service on the Home Front by Louis Hirshman and William Tasker.
Female factory workers bucking rivets during manufacture of an aircraft in 1942, Long Beach, California
Sugar rationing
"This is My Fight Too!" war bond poster, 1942. Hennepin County Library collection.
In the United States, the Great Depression is commonly dated to the Wall Street crash of October 1929. The nadir came in 1931–1933, and recovery came in 1940. The stock market crash marked the beginni
United States home front during World War II
…average annual growth rate of 8.4 percent. There were seven major War Loan drives, all of which exceeded their goals. The unemployment problems of the Great Depression largely ended with the mobilization for war. Out of a labor force of 54 million, unemployment fell by half from 7.7 million in spring 1940 (when the…
Dorothea Lange's 1936 photo Migrant Mother is an iconic photograph associated with the Great Depression.
Unemployed men outside a soup kitchen in Chicago, 1931
A $10 US gold certificate. The U.S. used the gold standard until 1934 and controlled nearly half of the global gold supply during the inter-war period.
Approaching dust storm near Stratford, Texas. April 18, 1935.