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Total military personnel rose over 11 million people between 1939 and 1945. The typical volunteer was probably in the low or lower middle class.

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(Also known as the draft)
Started on September 16, 1940, it required all men 21-45 to register.  By the end of the war in 1945, 50 million men between eighteen and forty-five had registered for the draft and 10 million had been inducted in the military.

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Women's armed branch of the US Military
Made up of nearly 350,000 women

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Minority Groups and Their Military Service

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Minority Groups and Their Military Service

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While all citizens were subject to the same draft, and received the same rate of pay, discrimination was still very common within the military

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With most of the able bodied men in the country being shipped off to war it left mostly able bodied women to take the role of men in the workplace. After the war most women returned home as their jobs were taken back by the men who held the position pre-war.

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The Office of Price Administration (OPA) was established within theOffice for Emergency Management of the United States government by Executive Order 8875 on August 28, 1941. The functions of the OPA were originally to control money (price controls) and rents after the outbreak of World War II.

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During World War II, The government found it necessary to ration food, gas, and even clothing during that time. Americans were asked to conserve on everything. With not a single person unaffected by the war, rationing meant sacrifices for all.

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War bonds are debt securities issued by a government to finance military operations and other expenditure in times of war. In practice, modern governments finance war by putting additional money into circulation, and the function of the bonds is to remove money from circulation and help to control inflation.

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Arsenal of Democracy was a phrase used by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to describe the United States as he tried to arouse popular support for sending military aid to nations fighting against the Axis powers during World War II (1939–1942).

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The War Production Board was an agency of the United States government that supervised war production during World War II. Established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt the WPB replaced the Supply Priorities and Allocation Board and the Office of Production Management.

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The United States Office of War Information that connected citizens to the battlefront through radio broadcasts, newspapers, posters, photographs, films and other forms of media.

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Japanese Americans internment during World War II was the forced relocation of Nisei into concentration camps in the western interior of the country.