2. World War II: Transitions on the Home Front A brief economic and political overview

5. Economic: Victory Gardens The government encouraged people to grow their own food to help the war effort and to supplement the rationed food supply.

6. Victory Garden Poster

8. War Bonds

9. War Bonds

11. Freedom of Speech

12. Freedom of Worship

13. Freedom from Want

14. Freedom from Fear

16. Pearl Harbor A fireball engulfs the USS Shaw moments after an attack by Japanese warplanes on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in December 1941.

17. Pearl Harbor bombing. California hit. Battered by aerial bombs and torpedoes, the USS California settles slowly into the mud and muck of Pearl Harbor. Clouds of black, oily smoke pouring up from the California and her stricken sister ships conceal all but the hull of the capsized USS Oklahoma at the extreme right., 1942. Pearl Harbor: Destruction of the Pacific Fleet

22. Rosie the Riveter

23. Rosie the Riveter , image by Norman Rockwell

24. Some Real “Rosie the Riveters”

25. “Rosies” in action

26. More “Rosies”

28. War Workers