WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Food, gas and clothing were rationed. Communities conducted scrap metal drives and planted “victory gardens.” To help build the armaments necessary to win the war, women and Blacks found employment as electricians, welders and riveters in defense plants.

Detailed explanation-2: -Rationing was not only one of those ways, but it was a way Americans contributed to the war effort. When the United States declared war after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States government created a system of rationing, limiting the amount of certain goods that a person could purchase.

Detailed explanation-3: -American industry provided almost two-thirds of all the Allied military equipment produced during the war: 297, 000 aircraft, 193, 000 artillery pieces, 86, 000 tanks and two million army trucks.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Doughboys arrived in the front line trenches with French arms and untried commanders, but quickly became a premier fighting force. The addition of the American troops broke the stalemate and pushed the Germans back into Germany, forcing them into the armistice that ended the devastation of the First World War.