{"id":45,"date":"2025-04-10T18:41:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T18:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2025-05-06T17:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T17:00:12","slug":"a-second-world-war","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/a-second-world-war\/","title":{"rendered":"A Second World War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the early years of World War II, the pages of <em>The Mount Holyoke News <\/em>regularly featured calls to fundraise for people in China affected by the war and updates from the British War Relief Society on knitting and mending efforts. Its articles focusing on the war increased significantly with the United States declaring its official entry into the war in December 1941. Students were understandably concerned about how this would affect the College, with many articles looking back at the changes in student life that happened at Mount Holyoke during the first world war. The concerns around World War II weren\u2019t just present in the articles, but the advertisements too, which encouraged readers to buy war bonds or send letters to overseas soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/compass.fivecolleges.edu\/islandora\/object\/mtholyoke%3A99743\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"741\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/988\/2025\/04\/SpecialDefense1-741x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/988\/2025\/04\/SpecialDefense1-741x1024.jpg 741w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/988\/2025\/04\/SpecialDefense1-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/988\/2025\/04\/SpecialDefense1-768x1061.jpg 768w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/988\/2025\/04\/SpecialDefense1.jpg 964w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 741px) 100vw, 741px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Left: Special Defense Supplement, Mount Holyoke News, February 20, 1942.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/compass.fivecolleges.edu\/islandora\/object\/mtholyoke%3A99582\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"743\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/988\/2025\/04\/MHN1943-743x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/988\/2025\/04\/MHN1943-743x1024.jpg 743w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/988\/2025\/04\/MHN1943-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/988\/2025\/04\/MHN1943-768x1058.jpg 768w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/mhcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/988\/2025\/04\/MHN1943.jpg 942w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 743px) 100vw, 743px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Right: Mount Holyoke News, February 19, 1943.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early years of World War II, the pages of The Mount Holyoke News regularly featured calls to fundraise for people in China affected by the war and updates from the British War Relief Society on knitting and mending efforts. 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