https://padlet.com/lukehaas/88whklrc20bh Made with a wish on a star en-us 2020-01-10 14:03:48 UTC 2024-05-27 04:17:24 UTC hello@padlet.com lukehaas https://padlet.com/lukehaas/88whklrc20bh/wish/440282218 On September 16, 1940, the United States instituted the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, which required all men between the ages of 21 and 45 to register for the draft. This was the first peacetime draft in United States history. The way they would select people was by making a chart and then selecting a few numbers and if you are that number then you have to go to war.

]]> 2020-02-04 14:27:22 UTC https://padlet.com/lukehaas/88whklrc20bh/wish/440282218 lukehaas https://padlet.com/lukehaas/88whklrc20bh/wish/440284896 Over 150,000 American women served in the Women's Army Corps during World War 11. Members of the WAC were the first women other than nurses to serve within the ranks of the United States Army. Both the Army and the American public initially had difficulty accepting the concept of women in uniform. However, political and military leaders, faced with fighting a two-front war and supplying men and materiel for that war. ]]> 2020-02-04 14:30:46 UTC https://padlet.com/lukehaas/88whklrc20bh/wish/440284896 lukehaas https://padlet.com/lukehaas/88whklrc20bh/wish/440287880
Ethnic minorities served in the US armed forces during World War II. All citizens were equally subject to the draft. All minorities were given the same rate of pay. The 16 million men and women in the services included 1 million African Americans, along with 33,000+ Japanese-Americans, 20,000+ Chinese Americans, 24,674 American Indians, and some 16,000 Filipino-Americans.

]]> 2020-02-04 14:34:35 UTC https://padlet.com/lukehaas/88whklrc20bh/wish/440287880 lukehaas https://padlet.com/lukehaas/88whklrc20bh/wish/440290102 Between 1940 and 1945, the female percentage of the U.S. workforce increased from 27 percent to nearly 37 percent, and by 1945 nearly one out of every four married women worked outside the home. In addition to factory work and other home front jobs, some 350,000 women joined the Armed Services, serving at home and abroad.

]]> 2020-02-04 14:37:12 UTC https://padlet.com/lukehaas/88whklrc20bh/wish/440290102 lukehaas https://padlet.com/lukehaas/88whklrc20bh/wish/440293159 The Office of Price Administration (OPA) was established within the Office 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.

]]> 2020-02-04 14:40:54 UTC https://padlet.com/lukehaas/88whklrc20bh/wish/440293159 lukehaas https://padlet.com/lukehaas/88whklrc20bh/wish/440294137 Rationing was a means of ensuring the fair distribution of food and commodities when they were scarce. It began after the start of WW2 with petrol and later included other goods such as butter, sugar and bacon. Eventually, most foods were covered by the rationing system with the exception of fruit and vegetables.

]]> 2020-02-04 14:42:02 UTC https://padlet.com/lukehaas/88whklrc20bh/wish/440294137 lukehaas https://padlet.com/lukehaas/88whklrc20bh/wish/440295911 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.

]]> 2020-02-04 14:43:58 UTC https://padlet.com/lukehaas/88whklrc20bh/wish/440295911 lukehaas https://padlet.com/lukehaas/88whklrc20bh/wish/440297081 The purpose of the War Production Board/WPB was to regulate the production of things such as fuel and materials. It was also for the allocation of materials and fuel during WWII for the citizens of the United States. It was an executive order by President Roosevelt.

]]> 2020-02-04 14:45:23 UTC https://padlet.com/lukehaas/88whklrc20bh/wish/440297081 lukehaas https://padlet.com/lukehaas/88whklrc20bh/wish/440298144 The United States Office of War Information was a United States agency created during World War II. OWI operated from June 1942 until September 1945. Through radio broadcasts, newspapers, posters, photographs, films and other forms of media, the OWI was the connection between the battlefront and civilian communities. The office also established several overseas branches, which launched a large-scale information and Propaganda  campaign abroad.

]]> 2020-02-04 14:46:39 UTC https://padlet.com/lukehaas/88whklrc20bh/wish/440298144 lukehaas https://padlet.com/lukehaas/88whklrc20bh/wish/440300074 The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in Concentration  Camps in the western region of the country of about 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry , most of whom lived on the  Pacific Coast . Sixty-two percent of the internees were United States Citizens.]]> 2020-02-04 14:48:59 UTC https://padlet.com/lukehaas/88whklrc20bh/wish/440300074