The basic idea of a ration is about having a limited amount of food or supplies that people can buy during a week. This was started during the 1940's becasue the whole world was using a lot of supplies in the war and people were suffering from shortages of food and supplies. This Rations made sure that everybody had the same share. During the war times people had to give over coupons or money to buy things. However, the point that made rationing uncomfortable was that if one used over the limit, he or she couldn't buy more of the food that was used. There are many records that some people traded their coupons to buy another kind of coupon for another kind of food. In the book, rations comes out in the part that when Call goes to the captains house and drinks canned milk that was rationed by the captain.
2. D-Day < The Normandy Landings>
The D-Day took place in June 6th on the year of 1944. The purpose of the D-Day was to put as many as Allied soldiers within Europe as possible to defeat the Germans. However, the cost was high. Over 9,000 Allied soldiers were killed or injured during the Normany landings. Even though the cost was high the landings turned out to be successful. In the novel, the charecters get excited about the news of the Landings at the Normandy but, only Lousie was careless about the landings because Call wasn't involved with the landings.
3. The GI Bill
The GI Bill was a bill that would benefit soldiers that fought in WW2 to go to college for free without any charge and also it benefited the soldiers to go be free from unenployment also. The bill's original name was the Servicemen's Readjustment Act. Presdient F.D Roosevelt was the person to sign the bill at 1944. The bill was intented to help all veteran soldiers that fought for the nation. The soldiers that fought in the war lost a lot of time because of the fighting and had to sacrifice many other benefits for the nation so the GI Bill could be called as a thank you gift from the nation to the veteran soldiers. The GI Bill affects Call who is a veteran soldier.
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