The war in Ukraine is not the first to contribute to famine. One of modern history's most noted examples also involved Russia and Ukraine
To send food over to European Allies, Americans began to “Hooverize” or ration their food, eating more peanut butter and participating in “Meatless Mondays” and “Wheatless Wednesdays.” But in the era of submarine warfare, it was a risky operation to ferry food shipments across the Atlantic Ocean to Europe, so not everything that was saved made it to its destination. “Many of these relief ships were sunk,” according to Cart.
“[The Soviets] are encouraging the famishing people in southern Ukraine to send food to the Volga,” says Bertrand M. Patenaude, author ofDuring this period, Hoover continued the work he had begun during the war, running an organization called the American Relief Administration, which worked to combat the Great Famine of 1921. He arranged for the Soviets to also purchase corn and wheat seed from the American Midwest.
But on a personal level, the special child-feeding programs meant the most to Hoover, based on his humble upbringing. “He was an orphan before he was 10 years old, and he always had a special affinity to little children in the sense of when he saw them suffering, it just moved him so,” says Nash. “It was Hoover who originally had the idea ofHoover’s food relief programs provided a model for the United States’ role in a humanitarian emergency. Today, the U.S. is providingWorld War I was a turning point in terms of expanding the U.S. role as a leader in overseas humanitarian aid efforts.
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