https://padlet.com/thomasfairhurst/ahgirwi5pu1z en-us 2019-01-22 22:50:43 UTC 2024-06-01 15:45:52 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Watchclock.png thomasfairhurst https://padlet.com/thomasfairhurst/ahgirwi5pu1z/wish/323256687 _{A military volunteer is a person who enlists in military service by free will, and is not a mercenary,} 

• _{38.8% (6,332,000) men and women were volunteers.} 

]]> 2019-01-22 22:53:55 UTC https://padlet.com/thomasfairhurst/ahgirwi5pu1z/wish/323256687 thomasfairhurst https://padlet.com/thomasfairhurst/ahgirwi5pu1z/wish/323257859 Military draft is the enforcement by the government of its constitutional right to require all citizens of sufficient age and capacity to enter the military service of the country. 

• 61.2% (11,535,000) were draftees

]]> 2019-01-22 23:00:37 UTC https://padlet.com/thomasfairhurst/ahgirwi5pu1z/wish/323257859 thomasfairhurst https://padlet.com/thomasfairhurst/ahgirwi5pu1z/wish/323259081 They had their own branches, including the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, the Women Air-force Service Pilots, and the Women Accepted for Volunteer Military Services. 

]]> 2019-01-22 23:08:19 UTC https://padlet.com/thomasfairhurst/ahgirwi5pu1z/wish/323259081 thomasfairhurst https://padlet.com/thomasfairhurst/ahgirwi5pu1z/wish/323260276 African American - 901,896
Puerto Rican - 51,438
Japanese American - 33,000
American Indian - 20,000
Chinese American - 13,311
Filipino American - 11,506
Hawaiian - 1,320]]> 2019-01-22 23:16:44 UTC https://padlet.com/thomasfairhurst/ahgirwi5pu1z/wish/323260276 thomasfairhurst https://padlet.com/thomasfairhurst/ahgirwi5pu1z/wish/323260728 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.  More than 310,000 women worked in the U.S. aircraft industry in 1943, representing 65 percent of the industry’s total workforce.]]> 2019-01-22 23:19:32 UTC https://padlet.com/thomasfairhurst/ahgirwi5pu1z/wish/323260728 thomasfairhurst https://padlet.com/thomasfairhurst/ahgirwi5pu1z/wish/323261351 Put in place by Roosevelt. It was executive order 8875 on August 28th, 1941, with the goal of controlling the prices of goods in the United States during WWII.]]> 2019-01-22 23:23:37 UTC https://padlet.com/thomasfairhurst/ahgirwi5pu1z/wish/323261351 thomasfairhurst https://padlet.com/thomasfairhurst/ahgirwi5pu1z/wish/323262238 Every American was issued a series of ration books during the war. The ration books contained removable stamps good for certain rationed items, like sugar, meat, cooking oil, and canned goods. A person could not buy a rationed item without also giving the grocer the correct ration stamp.]]> 2019-01-22 23:29:41 UTC https://padlet.com/thomasfairhurst/ahgirwi5pu1z/wish/323262238 thomasfairhurst https://padlet.com/thomasfairhurst/ahgirwi5pu1z/wish/323262883 A war bond is a debt security issued by a government for the purpose of financing military operations during times of war. It is an emotional appeal to patriotic citizens to lend the government their money as these bonds offer a rate of return below the market rate. It rose the federal budget from $9 billion in 1939 to $98 billion in 1945.]]> 2019-01-22 23:32:52 UTC https://padlet.com/thomasfairhurst/ahgirwi5pu1z/wish/323262883 thomasfairhurst https://padlet.com/thomasfairhurst/ahgirwi5pu1z/wish/323263333 popularized by President Roosevelt in a speech in which he called on the American people to contribute to the war effort.]]> 2019-01-22 23:36:43 UTC https://padlet.com/thomasfairhurst/ahgirwi5pu1z/wish/323263333 thomasfairhurst https://padlet.com/thomasfairhurst/ahgirwi5pu1z/wish/323263653 Established in 1942 by (executive order 9024) Franklin D. Roosevelt. The purpose of the board was to regulate the production and allocation of materials and fuel during World War II in the United States of America.]]> 2019-01-22 23:39:13 UTC https://padlet.com/thomasfairhurst/ahgirwi5pu1z/wish/323263653 thomasfairhurst https://padlet.com/thomasfairhurst/ahgirwi5pu1z/wish/323264055 The United States Office of War Information (OWI) was a United States government agency created during World War II. Through radio broadcasts, newspapers, posters, photographs, films and other forms of media, it was only connection between the battlefront and civilian communities.]]> 2019-01-22 23:41:34 UTC https://padlet.com/thomasfairhurst/ahgirwi5pu1z/wish/323264055 thomasfairhurst https://padlet.com/thomasfairhurst/ahgirwi5pu1z/wish/323264351 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. ]]> 2019-01-22 23:43:32 UTC https://padlet.com/thomasfairhurst/ahgirwi5pu1z/wish/323264351