The effect of WWII on life at home

Literature

Music and Movies

Labor

Home life

cut back on luxuries and necessities

Particularly more expensive items

Planted victory gardens

night time blackout

Women in the workforce to
replace men who had gone off
to war

A-A and other racial minorities entered
jobs previously exclusive to whites

unemployment goes down

Unions agree not to strike
during the war

Music/songs about supporting the US
become popular

Musicals get big

Norman Rockwell does art for
magazines

celebrates American hard work
and resolve to fight

Captures idealistic Americana

Pro-war propaganda incl. Hollywood
war films

propaganda books

science fiction -- fear of technology
taking over

Catcher In the Rye