How was the home front different during ww2 compared to ww1?
As ever with sort of question it depends where you were – here in Britain it was a very much different story to the US for example, and a whole differnt ballgame in the occupied and non-combatant countries. In anutshell there was far more involvement because of the bombing and air raids. Although there had been Zeppelin raids in WW1 – with developments in the Spanish Civil War (eg Guernica) it was clear that massive damage could be visited on civilian and industrial targets in the enemy country by the use of bombers. In ww1 rationing was introduced late in the war – with the Nazi’s policy of attrition and the cointinued and effective attack on the Atlantic Convoys by Doenitz and his Wolf Packs there was a real threat to the survival of the country. There was amassive Dig for Victory campaing where any wasteland was transformed into allotments. As in the Great War women were recruited to cover the gaps left by conscription and to keep essential services including agriculture going. The
