Home and War by Reece Adams https://padlet.com/reeceadams/homeandwar United States Homefront In WWII en-us 2020-01-10 15:55:44 UTC 2024-11-10 11:20:09 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/447144390/f74a7beaa3bd99db6382a541388ed917/circle_us_flag_sticker_1541451485_5796537.png Selective Service Draft reeceadams https://padlet.com/reeceadams/homeandwar/wish/430055167 The system used in the United States to draft young people into armed service
The Selective Service System drafted 10 million soldiers on top of the 5 million who had volunteered.
]]> 2020-01-10 16:00:54 UTC https://padlet.com/reeceadams/homeandwar/wish/430055167 Women's Military Auxiliary Services reeceadams https://padlet.com/reeceadams/homeandwar/wish/430056567 The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps was established because “there are innumerable duties now being performed by soldiers that can be done better by women,” -Army Chief of Staff General George Marshall
The Women's Military Auxiliary Army Corps bill establishing the WAAC became law on May 15, 1942
]]> 2020-01-10 16:03:11 UTC https://padlet.com/reeceadams/homeandwar/wish/430056567 Minority Groups and Their Military Service reeceadams https://padlet.com/reeceadams/homeandwar/wish/430057577 Minority Numbers who Served:
1,000,000 African Americans
300,000 Mexican Americans
33,000 Japanese Americans
25,000 Native Americans
13,000 Chinese Americans
]]> 2020-01-10 16:04:57 UTC https://padlet.com/reeceadams/homeandwar/wish/430057577 Women Industrial Workers reeceadams https://padlet.com/reeceadams/homeandwar/wish/430057932 Over 6 million women had entered the work force for
 the first time, boosting the percentage of women in the
 total work force to 35 percent. ]]> 2020-01-10 16:05:34 UTC https://padlet.com/reeceadams/homeandwar/wish/430057932 Office of Price Administration reeceadams https://padlet.com/reeceadams/homeandwar/wish/430058422 The OPA fought inflation by freezing prices on most goods.
Fought inflation by freezing wages, prices, and rents, rationed foods, such as meat, butter, cheese, vegetables, sugar, and coffee between 1942 and 1945
]]> 2020-01-10 16:06:27 UTC https://padlet.com/reeceadams/homeandwar/wish/430058422 Rationing reeceadams https://padlet.com/reeceadams/homeandwar/wish/430059115 Rationing was establishing fixed allotments of goods deemed essential for the military.
Under this system, households received ration books with coupons to be used for buying such scarce goods as meat, shoes, sugar, coffee, and gasoline.
]]> 2020-01-10 16:07:37 UTC https://padlet.com/reeceadams/homeandwar/wish/430059115 War Bonds reeceadams https://padlet.com/reeceadams/homeandwar/wish/430059638 A debt security issued by a government to finance military operations during times of war
Some workers invested up to half their paychecks in war bonds.
]]> 2020-01-10 16:08:30 UTC https://padlet.com/reeceadams/homeandwar/wish/430059638 War Production Board reeceadams https://padlet.com/reeceadams/homeandwar/wish/430060893 The War Production Board was the government's solution to the need to ensure that the armed forces and war industries received the resources they needed to win the war. 
Rationed fuel and materials vital to the war effort, such as gasoline, heating oil, metals, rubber, and plastics between 1942 and 1945 
]]> 2020-01-10 16:10:42 UTC https://padlet.com/reeceadams/homeandwar/wish/430060893 Office of War Information reeceadams https://padlet.com/reeceadams/homeandwar/wish/430061244 Office of War Information was a United States government agency created during World War II to communicate through radio broadcasts, newspapers, posters, photographs, films and other forms of media, and be the connection between the battlefront and civilian communities.
The Office of War Information had a collection of about 108,000 photographs.
]]> 2020-01-10 16:11:15 UTC https://padlet.com/reeceadams/homeandwar/wish/430061244 Japanese American Internment reeceadams https://padlet.com/reeceadams/homeandwar/wish/430061699 The Japanese American Internet was the confinement of Japanese American citizens.
The army rounded up some 110,000 Japanese Americans 
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