Summary: Growing Up After World War II
Growing Up Before, During and After World War II Around and during World War II there were many challenges and many exciting and terrifying events occur. Many things happen such as the Great Depression, Pearl Harbor, D-day, and Hiroshima. Billie Jean Ramsey-Styles grew up during this time. Billie was born in Burnsville, Yancey County, North Carolina on December 30 1930.
Her mother was a homemaker; her father was a brick mason. She lived in a five-room house that had electricity but did not have an indoor bathroom. She did household chores like washing laundry and, dishes, making beds, carrying in firewood and cleaning house (Styles). According to a U.S. History teacher “The Great Depression was the period of time in which the stock market crashed, banks failed, and the U.S. had an economic fallout” (Mueller). It was a point in time when people did not have much of anything and they had to work hard to afford what they did …show more content…
gets involved in the war. “On December 7th 1941 Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanese” (Mueller). “The Japanese had planned to destroy the Pacific Fleet but failed because, all of the aircraft carriers were away on missions or training” (Pearl). “Billie remembers what she was doing when she heard the news about Pearl Harbor. She was working a jigsaw puzzle while her father was on the couch listening to the radio- this was before the television. All of a sudden they heard ‘We interrupt this program for a special announcement. Japan has bombed Pearl Harbor’. Billie and her family were sad for the families whose loved ones were injured or killed in the attack. They were also upset that the U.S. had been attacked. They continued to listen to the radio. Eventually, they heard “The U.S. is now at war.” Since the U.S. entered the war the government started to ration sugar and gas” (Billie). “The rationing of sugar and gas caused a rise in the black market”
Her mother was a homemaker; her father was a brick mason. She lived in a five-room house that had electricity but did not have an indoor bathroom. She did household chores like washing laundry and, dishes, making beds, carrying in firewood and cleaning house (Styles). According to a U.S. History teacher “The Great Depression was the period of time in which the stock market crashed, banks failed, and the U.S. had an economic fallout” (Mueller). It was a point in time when people did not have much of anything and they had to work hard to afford what they did …show more content…
gets involved in the war. “On December 7th 1941 Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanese” (Mueller). “The Japanese had planned to destroy the Pacific Fleet but failed because, all of the aircraft carriers were away on missions or training” (Pearl). “Billie remembers what she was doing when she heard the news about Pearl Harbor. She was working a jigsaw puzzle while her father was on the couch listening to the radio- this was before the television. All of a sudden they heard ‘We interrupt this program for a special announcement. Japan has bombed Pearl Harbor’. Billie and her family were sad for the families whose loved ones were injured or killed in the attack. They were also upset that the U.S. had been attacked. They continued to listen to the radio. Eventually, they heard “The U.S. is now at war.” Since the U.S. entered the war the government started to ration sugar and gas” (Billie). “The rationing of sugar and gas caused a rise in the black market”