What was the rationing allowences in world war two?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Note that the information below refers to Britain, unless otherwise indicated. There's a lot of misunderstanding about this. Often, people mistakenly assume that the amounts of everything remained unchanged throughout the war. On the contrary, the products rationed and the amounts were altered several times. For ordinary people the petrol (gasoline) ration was nil throughout the war, with about 1-2 gallons a week allowed to people in very remote rural areas. Most animal products were rationed but the amounts were reduced between 1940 and 1942. The amount of (new) clothing allowed was also drastically reduced. Meat and animal products including milk were rationed - also sugar, chocolate, candy, tea and imported fruit. For a few years new furniture was rationed, and priority was given to people whose homes had been bombed. After the war, in 1946, the population was thunderstruck when for the first time ever in Britain, *bread* was rationed, though only for a few months. Rationing of many animal products continued till 1954. (In West Germany, ratioing was abolished four years earlier, which left many people in Britain bewildered, to say the least). Secondhand goods were not rationed, and there was a flourishing market in secondhand clothes, for example. Some goods were rationed "by requistion" instead of "by coupon". In September 1939 Parliament passed legislation that allowed the government to buy compulsorily the entire output of photographic film and paper made by Kodak U.K. and Ilford and 60% of the output of the next two largest companies. This left very little for ordinary commercial and public use. Some luxury industries were almost entirely closed down, such as most perfume manufacture. In many ways, what emerged was a tightly controlled economy, with a whiff of the totalitarian state.

Answer 3

During the Second World War in the United States specifically civilian industries were required to convert to war material and supply production. This reallocation of nearly all resources to war output severely strained civilian goods and fuel supplies. Allowances and rationing limited American consumption on the home-front to allow those saved resources to be focused and diverted towards the war.

Answer 4

in ww2 your weekly ration would have been (per adult):

• 3pints of milk
• 225g jam
• 55g tea
• 170g butter
• 1 shilling's worth of meat
• 55g cooking fat
• 225g sugar
• 115g bacon
• 30g cheese

Answer 5

You would get a certain amount of food and clothes per week or couple of weeks in World War 2 if you were rationed.

Answer 6

Meat, eggs, butter, sugar, cigarettes, gasoline, tires, shoes, paper.

Answer 7

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