CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 A NATION AT WAR CHAPTER 2A NOT SO EVERYDAY LIFE CHAPTER 3 WOMEN GO TO WORK CHAPTER 4 VOLUNTEERING FOR THE WAR EFFORT CHAPTER 5 WOMEN IN THE SERVICE CHAPTER 6 LOVE AND MARRIAGE DURING WORLD WAR Il CHAPTER 7 MOTHERHOOD DURING WARTIME 76 CHAPTER 8 AFTER THE WAR 86 TIMELINE ESSENTIAL FACTS GLOSSARY 100 102 104 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES SOURCE NOTES INDEX 110 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 112
In the 1940s radio broadcasts were among the most common ways people received
CHAPTED A NATION AT WAR For most Americans December 7 1941 began much like any other Sunday Mothers were in the kitchen scrambling eggs and making toast for breakfast shouting out to their kids who were just stumbling out of bed Fathers grabbed the newspaper off the front step and sat down at the kitchen table with a cup of coffee to read the latest news War was raging in Europe but President Franklin D Roosevelt had refused to send American troops into battle It wasn't until the afternoon when families were gathered around the table for Sunday dinner chatting and listening to the radio that Americans realized the significance of this day At around 2 30 pm on the East Coast the angry excited voice of reporter John Daly interrupted the regular radio programming The Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor Hawaii by air President
