World War II on the home front: Rationing: During World War II, the United States asked citizens at home to cut back on food, fuel, shoes, and consumer goods and to turn in scrap metal, rubber, paper, and even used cooking grease for recycling. Photographs, posters, and artifacts tell the story. (Page 5)
U.S. government poster warns Americans about the scarcity of fuel during World War II. An older man looks out a frosted window of a house at an outdoor thermometer.