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Impact of WWII - Coggle Diagram
Impact of WWII
Rationing
Limited supplies
Books of ration stamps
Luxury items such as tinned fruit
Clothes were rationed
Save by mending their own clothes
Grow their own food
Keep their own animals
Rationing continued for the next few years
Major change in people´s lives
The lives of women
Conscription was introduced
Work at home, in farms and factories had to be done by women
Unmarried women were conscripted
Women were now given the opportunity to do a wide range of jobs
New freedoms and the chance to learn new skills
The Blitz
Towns and cities were bombed
Two months of nightly bombing
Air-raid shelters in the Underground stations
Civilians had to maintain a ´blackout´ at night
The goverment and welfare
Health care was improved
Nurseries were set up
Special food rations and vitamins were made avaiable to young children and mothers
Transport system became a public service
Evacuation
Goverment evacuated children and young mothers
Host families were rich
Propaganda and censorship
Censorship
To keep up the morale
Negative stories were not reported
Propaganda
To encourage people to join the voluntary war effort
To warn people of the dangerous of 'careless talk'
To encourage people to save food and materials
To keep up the morale