What was life like during WWII?
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History is a credible website because it has more than three working hyperlinks, a way to contact the publisher, and was updated in 2014.
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Yadvashem is a credible website because it is a .org website, has ways to contact the publisher, and was updated in 2014.
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History
According to History, the daily lives of Americans changed drastically during the war. This change also was affected by people's ethnic groups at the time. Evidence of this is the statement, "Not all American citizens were allowed to retain their independence during World War II. Just over two months after Pearl Harbor, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt (1882-1945) signed into law Executive Order 9066, which resulted in the removal from their communities and the subsequent imprisonment of all Americans of Japanese descent who resided on the West Coast." The Japanese were sent to concentration camps due to the risk of Japanese spies sending intelligence to Japan. Aside from the treatment of the Japanese, American daily lives changed, mainly by the media showed to them. A statement implying this is," Throughout World War II, American moviegoers were treated to a steady stream of war-related programming. The movie-going experience included a newsreel, which lasted approximately 10 minutes and was loaded with images and accounts of recent battles, followed by an animated cartoon." Movie theaters displayed patriotic videos and pictures before their feature films and radios constantly played patriotic music.
Yadvashem
Yadvashem tells about the daily lives of another ethnic group. Jews who were captured by the Nazis were sent to concentration camps, labor camps, or confined to ghettos. In the camps, they completed long lists of tasks and then fed small amounts of food which where insufficient for the amounts of work they had done throughout the day. Evidence of this is in the statement, "All of one’s strength had to be enlisted to overcome the daily routine: an early wakeup, arranging the bed’s straw, the lineup, marching to labor, forced labor, the waiting period for the meager daily meal, usually consisting of a watery vegetable soup and half a piece of bread which was insufficient for people working at hard labor, the return to the camp, and another lineup, before retiring to the barracks." Another statement from this website is, "Despite their terrible conditions, cultural and religious activity continued in the ghettos, labor camps, and even concentration camps. Literary and artistic works that survived the war reflect the Jews’ lives, agonies and efforts to maintain their human and Jewish identity." This meant that they had kept their culture and heritage alive, even in a miserable ghetto.
Wikipedia
Wikipedia tells about multiple countries and their daily lives. Britain, one of the main forces fighting against Germany, had panicked under the threat of the Nazis. Supporting statements would be, "From very early in the war, it was thought that the major industrial cities of Britain, especially London in the southeast, would come under Luftwaffe air attack, which did happen with The Blitz. Some children were sent to Canada, the USA and Australia and millions of children and some mothers were evacuated from London and other major cities when the war began under government plans for the evacuation of civilian, but they often filtered back." They had sent children off to live in other countries to protect them from the Axis powers, just to have then return and go again. Families had begun to kill their pets to save food and space, which result in a rise of mice and vermin.
According to History, the daily lives of Americans changed drastically during the war. This change also was affected by people's ethnic groups at the time. Evidence of this is the statement, "Not all American citizens were allowed to retain their independence during World War II. Just over two months after Pearl Harbor, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt (1882-1945) signed into law Executive Order 9066, which resulted in the removal from their communities and the subsequent imprisonment of all Americans of Japanese descent who resided on the West Coast." The Japanese were sent to concentration camps due to the risk of Japanese spies sending intelligence to Japan. Aside from the treatment of the Japanese, American daily lives changed, mainly by the media showed to them. A statement implying this is," Throughout World War II, American moviegoers were treated to a steady stream of war-related programming. The movie-going experience included a newsreel, which lasted approximately 10 minutes and was loaded with images and accounts of recent battles, followed by an animated cartoon." Movie theaters displayed patriotic videos and pictures before their feature films and radios constantly played patriotic music.
Yadvashem
Yadvashem tells about the daily lives of another ethnic group. Jews who were captured by the Nazis were sent to concentration camps, labor camps, or confined to ghettos. In the camps, they completed long lists of tasks and then fed small amounts of food which where insufficient for the amounts of work they had done throughout the day. Evidence of this is in the statement, "All of one’s strength had to be enlisted to overcome the daily routine: an early wakeup, arranging the bed’s straw, the lineup, marching to labor, forced labor, the waiting period for the meager daily meal, usually consisting of a watery vegetable soup and half a piece of bread which was insufficient for people working at hard labor, the return to the camp, and another lineup, before retiring to the barracks." Another statement from this website is, "Despite their terrible conditions, cultural and religious activity continued in the ghettos, labor camps, and even concentration camps. Literary and artistic works that survived the war reflect the Jews’ lives, agonies and efforts to maintain their human and Jewish identity." This meant that they had kept their culture and heritage alive, even in a miserable ghetto.
Wikipedia
Wikipedia tells about multiple countries and their daily lives. Britain, one of the main forces fighting against Germany, had panicked under the threat of the Nazis. Supporting statements would be, "From very early in the war, it was thought that the major industrial cities of Britain, especially London in the southeast, would come under Luftwaffe air attack, which did happen with The Blitz. Some children were sent to Canada, the USA and Australia and millions of children and some mothers were evacuated from London and other major cities when the war began under government plans for the evacuation of civilian, but they often filtered back." They had sent children off to live in other countries to protect them from the Axis powers, just to have then return and go again. Families had begun to kill their pets to save food and space, which result in a rise of mice and vermin.