https://padlet.com/peytonmurray1/9d06q1iycu7 Made with a stroke of good luck en-us 2020-01-15 19:12:38 UTC 2026-02-12 08:06:30 UTC hello@padlet.com peytonmurray1 https://padlet.com/peytonmurray1/9d06q1iycu7/wish/432061152 During the war some 16 million Americans served in the United States Armed Forces, with 405,399 killed in action and 671,278 wounded.^[2] There were also 130,201 American prisoners of war, of whom 116,129 returned home after the war.]]> 2020-01-15 19:13:25 UTC https://padlet.com/peytonmurray1/9d06q1iycu7/wish/432061152 peytonmurray1 https://padlet.com/peytonmurray1/9d06q1iycu7/wish/432061965 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.]]> 2020-01-15 19:14:44 UTC https://padlet.com/peytonmurray1/9d06q1iycu7/wish/432061965 peytonmurray1 https://padlet.com/peytonmurray1/9d06q1iycu7/wish/432062515 About seventy percent of women who served in the military during World War II held traditionally "female" jobs. They worked as typists, clerks, and mail sorters.]]> 2020-01-15 19:15:34 UTC https://padlet.com/peytonmurray1/9d06q1iycu7/wish/432062515 peytonmurray1 https://padlet.com/peytonmurray1/9d06q1iycu7/wish/432063504 Ethnic minorities served in the US armed forces during World War II. All citizens were equally subject to the draft. ]]> 2020-01-15 19:17:03 UTC https://padlet.com/peytonmurray1/9d06q1iycu7/wish/432063504 peytonmurray1 https://padlet.com/peytonmurray1/9d06q1iycu7/wish/432064019 During World War II, some 350,000 women served in the U.S. Armed Forces, both at home and abroad. They included the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots, who on March 10, 2010, were awarded the prestigious Congressional Gold Medal.]]> 2020-01-15 19:17:47 UTC https://padlet.com/peytonmurray1/9d06q1iycu7/wish/432064019 peytonmurray1 https://padlet.com/peytonmurray1/9d06q1iycu7/wish/432065245 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.]]> 2020-01-15 19:19:35 UTC https://padlet.com/peytonmurray1/9d06q1iycu7/wish/432065245 peytonmurray1 https://padlet.com/peytonmurray1/9d06q1iycu7/wish/432065697 World War II put a heavy burden on US supplies of basic materials like food, shoes, metal, paper, and rubber. The Army and Navy were growing, as was the nation’s effort to aid its allies overseas.]]> 2020-01-15 19:20:22 UTC https://padlet.com/peytonmurray1/9d06q1iycu7/wish/432065697 peytonmurray1 https://padlet.com/peytonmurray1/9d06q1iycu7/wish/432066181 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. ]]> 2020-01-15 19:21:06 UTC https://padlet.com/peytonmurray1/9d06q1iycu7/wish/432066181 peytonmurray1 https://padlet.com/peytonmurray1/9d06q1iycu7/wish/432066710 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.]]> 2020-01-15 19:21:56 UTC https://padlet.com/peytonmurray1/9d06q1iycu7/wish/432066710 peytonmurray1 https://padlet.com/peytonmurray1/9d06q1iycu7/wish/432067282 Roosevelt's address was "a call to arm and support" the Allies in Europe, and, to a lesser extent, arm and support the Republic of China, in total war against Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. ]]> 2020-01-15 19:22:38 UTC https://padlet.com/peytonmurray1/9d06q1iycu7/wish/432067282 peytonmurray1 https://padlet.com/peytonmurray1/9d06q1iycu7/wish/432067856 The WPB directed conversion of industries from peacetime work to war needs, allocated scarce materials, established priorities in the distribution of materials and services, and prohibited nonessential production.]]> 2020-01-15 19:23:28 UTC https://padlet.com/peytonmurray1/9d06q1iycu7/wish/432067856 peytonmurray1 https://padlet.com/peytonmurray1/9d06q1iycu7/wish/432068649  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. ]]> 2020-01-15 19:24:37 UTC https://padlet.com/peytonmurray1/9d06q1iycu7/wish/432068649 peytonmurray1 https://padlet.com/peytonmurray1/9d06q1iycu7/wish/432069274 Japanese internment camps were established during World War II by President Franklin Roosevelt through his Executive Order 9066. From 1942 to 1945, it was the policy of the U.S. government that people of Japanese descent would be interred in isolated camps.]]> 2020-01-15 19:25:28 UTC https://padlet.com/peytonmurray1/9d06q1iycu7/wish/432069274