Sunday, October 31, 2010

The effects of war

#1: Rations of supplies

1) What is a ration of something?
 - Rationing is an artificial restriction of demand.
2) What is the purpose of rationing an item?
 - The purpose of rationing was to produce many people many goods with coupons.
3) What was rationed during world war 2?
 - Tires, cars, bicycles, gasoline, fuel oil, solid fuels, stoves, rubber foot wear, sugar, coffee, and many foods.
4) Where is the idea of rationing present in Jacob have I loved?
 - Milk in captain's house.
5) How does your pictire represent rationing?
 - This is the rationing coupon.

#2: The GI Bill
1) What was the GI Bill?
 - It is an omnimus bill that provided college or vocational education for returning World War II veterans.
2) What was this bill's original name?
 - It is the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944.
3) Who signed this bill into law? When did this happen?
 - President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed this bill into law and this happened in  On June 22, 1944.
4) What was this bill intended to do?
 - It was to give education to people who fought in the World War II.
5) Do you think it was good or bad? - I think it was a good idea to give World War II veterans education after the war.
6)Who does this bill effect in the novel?
 - Call gets this bill effect in the novel.
7) How does your picture represent the GI Bill?
 - It shows the soldier from the war studying.

#3: D-Day( the Normandy Landings)
1) What was D-Day? When and Where did it happen?
 - D-Day is the Normandy Landings. It happened on Tuesday, 6 June 1944, at 6:30 AM at Mrmandy, France.
2) What was the purpose of D-Day?
 - The main purpose of  D-Day was to established an Allied beachhead in northern Europe.
3) Was D-Day succesful? Why or why not?
 - D-Day was successful because of sheer miracles, the German's unpreparedness......etc.
4) How would you have felt if you were a D-Day soldier?
 - I would have been certain that Germans to lose.
5) How many soldiers died in D-Day?
 - About 10000 were killed, wounded, missing, or captured in Allied and 9000 were killed, wounded, missing, or captured in Axis.
6) How does D-Day affect the characters of the novel?
 - Call gets higher percentage to come back from war safely.
7) How does your picture represent D-Day?
 - This shows D-Day soldiers landing at Normandy, France.

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