https://padlet.com/carterstahly/65i9efyqhlid The key effectors of the United States during World War two. en-us 2020-01-09 15:39:30 UTC 2025-11-10 12:21:27 UTC hello@padlet.com carterstahly https://padlet.com/carterstahly/65i9efyqhlid/wish/431910183 Some Americans decided to join the military on their own terms. More often than not, volunteer troops were treated better and had better opportunities only during the war. During the war, 38% or 6.3 million of the troops enlisted were volunteers.]]> 2020-01-15 15:46:12 UTC https://padlet.com/carterstahly/65i9efyqhlid/wish/431910183 carterstahly https://padlet.com/carterstahly/65i9efyqhlid/wish/431910805 The selective service was set up so America would always be ready to take on a war with plenty of troops. When it was first started, all sixteen or older men where required to sign up for it.]]> 2020-01-15 15:47:06 UTC https://padlet.com/carterstahly/65i9efyqhlid/wish/431910805 carterstahly https://padlet.com/carterstahly/65i9efyqhlid/wish/431910894 2020-01-15 15:47:15 UTC https://padlet.com/carterstahly/65i9efyqhlid/wish/431910894 carterstahly https://padlet.com/carterstahly/65i9efyqhlid/wish/431911014 Many minority groups got their own division during the war due to segregation. Many of these units proved themselves multiple times and broke barrier for the minority in America. Such as the Tuskegee Airmen.]]> 2020-01-15 15:47:24 UTC https://padlet.com/carterstahly/65i9efyqhlid/wish/431911014 carterstahly https://padlet.com/carterstahly/65i9efyqhlid/wish/431911103 With many of the men of the country off in Europe and in the Pacific theater fighting for freedom, and a severe need of workers, women took over the industrial jobs of men, filling millions of jobs needed to keep the American war machine running.]]> 2020-01-15 15:47:32 UTC https://padlet.com/carterstahly/65i9efyqhlid/wish/431911103 carterstahly https://padlet.com/carterstahly/65i9efyqhlid/wish/431911223 During the war, the US government not only controlled the amount of food that Americans were buying, but also the prices of that food, as well as other common goods that were needed for the war, and therefor increased the price heavily for the average citizen to buy something such as scrap metal.]]> 2020-01-15 15:47:42 UTC https://padlet.com/carterstahly/65i9efyqhlid/wish/431911223 carterstahly https://padlet.com/carterstahly/65i9efyqhlid/wish/431911357 During a war, a government needs to feed their troops! So the US government took over production of some food and controlled the food throughout America to ensure the troops were fed, this meant stocking up food and limiting the amount that citizens where allowed to buy.]]> 2020-01-15 15:47:51 UTC https://padlet.com/carterstahly/65i9efyqhlid/wish/431911357 carterstahly https://padlet.com/carterstahly/65i9efyqhlid/wish/431911455 It was heavily pushed by the US government during world war two for every American to buy war bonds, as most of the war was funded by them. Most Americans gave 10% of all of their paychecks to buy war bonds during the war.]]> 2020-01-15 15:47:59 UTC https://padlet.com/carterstahly/65i9efyqhlid/wish/431911455 carterstahly https://padlet.com/carterstahly/65i9efyqhlid/wish/431911594 During a speech, Franklin D. Roosevelt referred to America as becoming the Arsenal of Democracy. He basically meant that America would become the big bronze/gun for democracy, pushing it on all for freedom.]]> 2020-01-15 15:48:10 UTC https://padlet.com/carterstahly/65i9efyqhlid/wish/431911594 carterstahly https://padlet.com/carterstahly/65i9efyqhlid/wish/431911936 The war production board during the war took over production across America to provide the allies with tanks, airplanes and more. At one point during the war, former Ford automotive factories where producing up to one B-17 Bomber every 5 hours.]]> 2020-01-15 15:48:39 UTC https://padlet.com/carterstahly/65i9efyqhlid/wish/431911936 carterstahly https://padlet.com/carterstahly/65i9efyqhlid/wish/431912062 Created in 1942, the Office of War Information created multiple cartoons with Disney to spread awareness, but also created hundreds of different posters to get Americans to buy bonds and enlist.]]> 2020-01-15 15:48:51 UTC https://padlet.com/carterstahly/65i9efyqhlid/wish/431912062 carterstahly https://padlet.com/carterstahly/65i9efyqhlid/wish/431912146 During WW2, over 110,000 Japanese Americans were rounded up from around the country and sent to "safe zone camps" where they were kept throughout the war, as, what the government called, a "safety precaution."]]> 2020-01-15 15:48:58 UTC https://padlet.com/carterstahly/65i9efyqhlid/wish/431912146