1. On the Home Front During World War II Audie Murphy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audie_Murphy

2. War ration books and tokens were issued to each American family, dictating how much gasoline, tires, sugar, meat, silk, shoes, nylon and other items any one person could buy. www.ameshistoricalsociety.org:rationingwww.ameshistoricalsociety.org:rationing during WWII

3. www.ameshistoricalsociety.orgwww.ameshistoricalsociety.org rationing during WWII “A” stickers permitted you to buy $4 of gas per week. “B” stickers permitted you to buy $8 of gas per week, but only for work. The purpose of gas rationing was to save rubber from the tires. People were only allowed to drive 35 miles per hour.

4. www.ameshistoricalsociety.orgwww.ameshistoricalsociety.org rationing during WWII

5. Victory Gardens were grown in backyards, on rooftops, and at the White House in Washington D.C. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_garden

6. Rosie the Riveter was a fictional character created by the US government to encourage American women to take factory jobs while men were away fighting in the war. Normal Rockwell’s picture of Rosie the Riveter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosie_the_Riveter

7. Tuskegee Airmen Benjamin Davis, Jr. became the first African-American general in the USAF http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Airmen

8. Navajo code-talkers during WWII Congressional Gold Medal awarded to Navajo code talkers in 2001. Monument to Navajo code talkers in Window Rock, Arizona http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_talker

9. Locations of internment camps for Japanese- Americans during WWII http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment

10. A Japanese Internment Camp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korematsu_v._United_States