https://padlet.com/emmahorton2/9u9562jm3doe By Emma Horton en-us 2020-01-10 14:58:44 UTC 2025-01-17 22:46:50 UTC hello@padlet.com emmahorton2 https://padlet.com/emmahorton2/9u9562jm3doe/wish/430015248 By 1945, women made up 37% of the workforce. In the aircraft industry, women made up 65% of all employees. These women's efforts were crucial to WWII.]]> 2020-01-10 15:07:39 UTC https://padlet.com/emmahorton2/9u9562jm3doe/wish/430015248 emmahorton2 https://padlet.com/emmahorton2/9u9562jm3doe/wish/431334875 Many of the soldiers that fought in the war were made up of U.S. citizens. Many came to the war through volunteer, but roughly 10 million soldiers came into the war through the draft. ]]> 2020-01-14 15:08:15 UTC https://padlet.com/emmahorton2/9u9562jm3doe/wish/431334875 emmahorton2 https://padlet.com/emmahorton2/9u9562jm3doe/wish/431337222 On September 16, 1940, the United States started the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, which made all men between the ages of 21 and 45 to register for the draft. The Draft made up 20% of the men who fought in WWII.]]> 2020-01-14 15:11:23 UTC https://padlet.com/emmahorton2/9u9562jm3doe/wish/431337222 emmahorton2 https://padlet.com/emmahorton2/9u9562jm3doe/wish/431339859  This Service was made to work with the Army, "for the purpose of making available to the national defense the knowledge, skill, and special training of the women of the nation." ... Women officers weren't allowed to command men. ]]> 2020-01-14 15:14:56 UTC https://padlet.com/emmahorton2/9u9562jm3doe/wish/431339859 emmahorton2 https://padlet.com/emmahorton2/9u9562jm3doe/wish/431656842 Ethnic groups served in the US forces during World War II. All citizens were  subject to the draft. All ethnic groups were given the same rate of pay.

• 13,311 Chinese,
• 20,080 Japanese,
• 1,320 Hawaiians,
• 44,000 American Indians,
• 11,506 Filipinos,
• 51,438 Puerto Ricans.

]]> 2020-01-15 01:34:36 UTC https://padlet.com/emmahorton2/9u9562jm3doe/wish/431656842 emmahorton2 https://padlet.com/emmahorton2/9u9562jm3doe/wish/431657598 Established within the Office for Emergency Management of the United States government by Executive Order 8875 on August 28, 1941. The main role of the OPA was to control money (price controls) and rents once World War II started.]]> 2020-01-15 01:37:25 UTC https://padlet.com/emmahorton2/9u9562jm3doe/wish/431657598 emmahorton2 https://padlet.com/emmahorton2/9u9562jm3doe/wish/431658422 Rationing was for the insurance of fair distribution of food and commodities when they were scarce. This started after the outbreak of WW2 with petrol, later including other goods such as butter, sugar and bacon. Soon many goods were covered by the rationing system besides fruits and vegetables. ]]> 2020-01-15 01:40:48 UTC https://padlet.com/emmahorton2/9u9562jm3doe/wish/431658422 emmahorton2 https://padlet.com/emmahorton2/9u9562jm3doe/wish/431659250 War Bonds were used in WWII, when full employment collided with rationing. War Bonds were seen as a way to remove money from circulation as well as reduce inflation. Issued by the U.S. Government, they called them Defense Bonds.]]> 2020-01-15 01:43:45 UTC https://padlet.com/emmahorton2/9u9562jm3doe/wish/431659250 emmahorton2 https://padlet.com/emmahorton2/9u9562jm3doe/wish/431660015 Roosevelt promised to help the United Kingdom fight Nazi Germany by suppling them with military supplies while the United States stayed out of the actual fighting. "The great arsenal of democracy" came to refer to the industry of the U.S., as the primary supplier of material for the Allied war effort.]]> 2020-01-15 01:46:49 UTC https://padlet.com/emmahorton2/9u9562jm3doe/wish/431660015 emmahorton2 https://padlet.com/emmahorton2/9u9562jm3doe/wish/431660679 The War Production Board was an agency of the United States that supervised war production during World War II. President Franklin D. Roosevelt established it on January 1942, with Executive Order 9024. The WPB replaced the Supply Priorities and Allocation Board and the Office of Production Management. ]]> 2020-01-15 01:49:14 UTC https://padlet.com/emmahorton2/9u9562jm3doe/wish/431660679 emmahorton2 https://padlet.com/emmahorton2/9u9562jm3doe/wish/431661267 The Office of War Information was a Federal agency during World War II in charge of the dissemination of all official news in the United States and abroad and of propaganda abroad. News would be half truth and half lies in some cases to get the message across. For the most part, you couldn't talk about the war efforts considering there could be spies all around.]]> 2020-01-15 01:51:31 UTC https://padlet.com/emmahorton2/9u9562jm3doe/wish/431661267 emmahorton2 https://padlet.com/emmahorton2/9u9562jm3doe/wish/431662203 Japanese internment camps were sites of forced relocation of people of Japanese ancestry in the Western United States during WWII. Established in direct response to the Pearl Harbor attack. US citizens feared another attack and war hysteria seized the country causing even Japanese Americans to be held in camps till after the war was over.]]> 2020-01-15 01:55:10 UTC https://padlet.com/emmahorton2/9u9562jm3doe/wish/431662203