war effort
National military push
The collective mobilization of a nation's resources, industries, and civilian population to support military operations during wartime.
A war effort typically involves rationing, factory conversion to military production, and public campaigns encouraging sacrifice: Women entered the workforce in unprecedented numbers as part of the war effort.
The phrase evokes particularly the total mobilization of World War II.
- home frontCivilian sector during war
- civil defenseGovernment emergency civilian protection
- air raid wardensCivilian bombing response coordinators
- rationingLimiting distribution during scarcity
- scrap drivesOrganized wartime material collection
Rosie the Riveter · blood drives · defense industry · propaganda · victory gardens · mobilization · government contracts · conscription · draft board · civilians · munitions factories · volunteerism · patriotism · support the troops · enlistment · resource allocation · supplies · munitions
- wartime womenarmy nurses, military nurses, flight nurses, nurse corps, WAC
- WWII Homefrontvictory gardens, ration books, scrap drives, blackouts, home front
- Wartime Scoutsscout troops, merit badges, camping skills, outdoor skills, knot tying
- 1940sWWII, D-Day, Pearl Harbor, Normandy, VE Day
- wartimerationing, evacuations, home front, air raids, mobilization
- Canadian WartimeCanadian Army, D-Day, enlistment, home front, homefront
war effortpeacetime
Absence of armed conflict
demobilization · peace · civilian life · standing down · business as usual
war effortpeace process
Efforts to end hostilities
peace initiative · peacemaking · peace negotiations · ceasefire · armistice
war effortpeace movement
Campaign advocating nonviolent resolution
antiwar movement · pacifism · relief effort · peacebuilding · conscientious objection
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