The war put 3.5 million men into the armed forces, but it mobilized the entire nation — business and industry, farm and factory, men, women, and children. In this chapter you’ll explore how Americans at home supported and endured the war — from civil defense and housing prisoners of war to rationing and buying war bonds. Although the focus is on North Carolina, we’ve also included primary sources on the Japanese-American internment.
Section Contents
- Primary Source: Roosevelt's Fireside Chat 21
- Primary Source: Roosevelt's Fireside Chat 23
- North Carolina's Wartime Miracle: Defending the Nation
- Japanese American Imprisonment Part I
- Primary Source: Poster Announcing Japanese American Removal and Relocation
- Rosie the Riveter
- Germans Attack Off of North Carolina's Outer Banks
- Primary Source: Wartime Wilmington, Through the Eyes of the Cape Fear
- Primary Source: Margaret Rogers and Prisoners of War in North Carolina
- Rationing
- War Bonds
- Covering the Beat: UNC in the WWII Era
