US History: WWII part 3

We went up from Pearl Harbor through D-Day (stopping just short of D- Day, actually) and then circled back around to life on the home front.  This has been interesting because it answers the question, "What would you have been doing if you were this age during WWII?"

Part of that answer has been "collecting scrap metal and paper" and part of it has been, "not eating much."

Ah, the joys of rationing!  We found a great internet site called Cookit that dealt with food rationing.  The link goes to the WWII stuff, but it's actually a "history cookbook."  We also found this fun rationing game about clothes!

We've also been talking about women at war: WACs WAVes, and WOWs, as well as the women going into the workforce, and the general concept of total war.

Most of the best of the web seems to be British, but I can see that it's a bigger part of their history than ours!  This poster is showing how desperately parents wanted to bring their children back from the country to be with them, but, of course, needed to keep them away from the bombing.  I can't even imagine sending my kids away (or keeping them during the Blitz).

Here's a cool aerial dogfight game, also from the Battle of Britain, as well as an interesting interactive timeline.

On the US side, National Geographic has a great interactive site about Pearl Harbor.  We also are set up to watch some of The Last Days of World War II (instant watch on Netflix) which covers day by day from D-Day to the end of the War.