Rationing occurred on the home fronts.

Rationing controls the size of the ration, one's allotted portion of the resources being distributed on a particular day or at a particular time.

Rationing was in some respects more strict after the war than during it — two major foodstuffs that were never rationed during the war, bread and potatoes, went on ration after it ( bread from 1946 to 1948, and potatoes for a time from 1947 ).

* WWII Rationing on the U. S. homefront, illustrated-Ames Historical Society

Rationing started at the end of 1917 with sugar and butter remaining on ration until 1920.

Rationing is sometimes used to distribute food in times of shortage, most notably during times of war.

Rationing often includes food and other necessities for which there is a shortage, including materials needed for the war effort such as rubber tires, leather shoes, clothing and gasoline.

Rationing severely reduced the availability of consumer goods, with the increase in industrial production coming from the demand for war materials.

Rationing in the United Kingdom refers to rationing introduced by the government of the United Kingdom several times during the 20th century, mostly during and immediately after war.

Rationing continued after the end of the war in 1945, but the basic petrol ration for civilians was restored when peace returned.

Rationing using coupons is only one kind of non-price rationing.

To get a classification and rationing stamps, one had to appear before a local War Price and Rationing Board which reported to the OPA ( which was jokingly said to stand for " Only a Puny A-card ").

Rationing of most goods and services was introduced, not only for consumers but also for manufacturers.

* February 1 – Rationing of clothes ends in Britain.

* September 26 – Rationing of cane sugar ends in the UK.

Rationing of the ice allowed the preservation of foods over the warm periods.

Rationing was finally imposed in early 1918 for meat, sugar and fats ( butter and oleo ) – but not bread ; the new system worked smoothly.

Rationing came to an end in 1947, and by 1948, some normality had returned to Lille.

* Sugar and sugar products distribution by the Sugar Rationing Administration in the Department of Agriculture pursuant to the Sugar Control Extension Act ( 61 Stat.

Rationing is the controlled distribution of scarce resources, goods, or services.

Rationing has long been used in the military, especially the navy, to make supplies or rations last for a defined duration, such as a voyage.

Rationing is often instituted during wartime for civilians as well.

Rationing was ended in 1946.

Rationing did not cover food products only.

Rationing of food and water may become necessary during an emergency, such as a natural disaster or terror attack.

Credit Rationing in Markets with Imperfect Information, American Economic Review, vol.

Energy policy may be reformed leading to greater energy intensity, for example in Iran with the 2007 Gas Rationing Plan in Iran, Canada and the National Energy Program and in the USA with the Energy and Security Act of 2007.

Rationing did not reduce the level of food consumption in the UK.

Rationing cards were still used as late as 1952.

They therefore reject the state, seeing it as an aggressive entity which steals property ( through taxation and expropriation ), initiate aggression, are a compulsory monopoly on the use of force, use their coercive powers to benefit some businesses and individuals at the expense of others, create monopolies, restrict trade, and restrict personal freedoms via drug laws, compulsory education, conscription, laws on food and morality, and the like.

The Christadelphian position on conscientious objection came to the fore with the introduction of conscription during the First World War.

This dual rôle allowed the Committee, to which Clarke and MacDermott added themselves shortly afterward, to promote their own policies and personnel independently of both the Volunteer Executive and the IRB Executive — in particular Volunteer Chief of Staff Eoin MacNeill, who supported a rising only on condition of an increase in popular support following unpopular moves by the London government, such as the introduction of conscription or an attempt to suppress the Volunteers or its leaders, and IRB President Denis McCullough, who held similar views.

They resented the changes imposed on the Roman Catholic Church by the Civil Constitution of the Clergy ( 1790 ) and broke into open revolt in defiance of the Revolutionary government's military conscription.

Whereas MacNeill intended to use force only to resist the imposition of conscription on Ireland, or to prevent the use of force to disarm of the Volunteers, the IRB men intended to launch an armed rebellion in pursuit of Irish independence.

" Opinion shifted even more in favour of the Republicans in 1917 – 18 with the Conscription Crisis, an attempt by Britain to impose conscription on Ireland to bolster its flagging war effort.

If they turned to illegality it was due to the fact that honest toil only benefited the employers and often entailed a complete loss of dignity, while any complaints resulted in the sack ; to avoid starvation through lack of work it was necessary to beg or steal, and to avoid conscription into the army many of them had to go on the run.

The latter measure was applied after the so-called general strike from 1 September to 3 September 1942, which paralyzed the administration, agriculture, industry and education as response to the declaration of forced conscription by the German administration on 30 August 1942.

The discontent with Trotsky's policies of strict discipline, conscription and reliance on carefully supervised non-Communist military experts eventually led to the Military Opposition ( Russian: Военная оппозиция

The introduction of conscription and the Third Republic's 1880s laws on public instruction, facilitated the creation of a national identity, under this theory.

Trudeau reflected on his opposition to conscription and his doubts about the war in his Memoirs ( 1993 ): " So there was a war?

Opponents claim that Contra warfare had largely died down, and that the Sandinistas had grown increasingly unpopular, particularly due to forced conscription and crackdowns on political freedoms.

The level of national mobilization of resources on all sides of the conflict, the battlespace being contested, the scale of the armies, navies, and air forces raised through conscription, the active targeting of civilians ( and civilian property ), the general disregard for collateral damage, and the unrestricted aims of the belligerents marked total war on an unprecedented and unsurpassed, multicontinental scale.

Having possessions on six continents, Britain had to defend all of its empire with a volunteer army, for it was the only power in Europe to have no conscription.

The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 was passed by the United States Congress on September 16, 1940, becoming the first peacetime conscription in United States history.

King returned to Canada to run in the 1917 election, which focused almost entirely on the conscription issue.

In the House of Commons on 10 June 1942, he said that his policy was " not necessarily conscription but conscription if necessary ".

* April 27 – WWII: A national plebiscite is held in Canada on the issue of conscription.

As a continuation of the wars sparked by the French Revolution of 1789, they revolutionized European armies and played out on an unprecedented scale, mainly due to the application of modern mass conscription.

* A conscription law, modeled on the French version, is issued in Japan.