WWII by Andrew Murray https://padlet.com/andrewmurray1/cfr6hu0nzqnw en-us 2019-01-16 14:10:07 UTC 2019-04-22 15:25:10 UTC hello@padlet.com Military Volunteer andrewmurray1 https://padlet.com/andrewmurray1/cfr6hu0nzqnw/wish/321225715 38.8 percent of the service men and woman in World War Two were all volunteers 

61.2 percent of them were drafts 



]]> 2019-01-16 14:15:28 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewmurray1/cfr6hu0nzqnw/wish/321225715 Selective service andrewmurray1 https://padlet.com/andrewmurray1/cfr6hu0nzqnw/wish/321998614 September 16,1940

age's between 21 and 45

required 1 year in armed forces

By the end 50 million ages 18-50 had drafted and 10 million induced

]]> 2019-01-18 05:03:37 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewmurray1/cfr6hu0nzqnw/wish/321998614 Women's military auxiliary services andrewmurray1 https://padlet.com/andrewmurray1/cfr6hu0nzqnw/wish/321999149 December 1941 350k women served in the Armed Forces for the US

3 different Branches

Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (later the Women's Army Corps or WAC),
the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), 

the Women Accepted for Volunteer Military Services (WAVES).

Served as marines and coast guard as well
]]> 2019-01-18 05:09:50 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewmurray1/cfr6hu0nzqnw/wish/321999149 Minority groups and their military service andrewmurray1 https://padlet.com/andrewmurray1/cfr6hu0nzqnw/wish/321999451 1,056,841 African American registrants were inducted into the armed forces

885,945 went into the Army

153,224 into the Navy

16,005 into the Marine Corps

1,667 into the Coast Guard

13,311 Chinese

20,080 Japanese

1,320 Hawaiians

19,567 American Indians

11,506 Filipinos

51,438 Puerto Ricans

24,085 Japanese-Americans

125,880 aliens of various nationalities had enlisted or been inducted into the Army and Navy]]> 2019-01-18 05:13:15 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewmurray1/cfr6hu0nzqnw/wish/321999451 Women industrial workers andrewmurray1 https://padlet.com/andrewmurray1/cfr6hu0nzqnw/wish/321999801 woman work and made planes,boats and all sorts of military mobile vehicles 

More than 310,000 women worked in the U.S. aircraft industry




]]> 2019-01-18 05:18:46 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewmurray1/cfr6hu0nzqnw/wish/321999801 Office of Price Administration andrewmurray1 https://padlet.com/andrewmurray1/cfr6hu0nzqnw/wish/322000449 established within the office for emergency management

OPA's Enforcement Division show that 650k investigations conducted for all of 1943

280,000 violations found. In 1944

 338,029 violations were reported

205,779 administrative warning letters sent out

Court proceedings were initiated in almost 29,000 cases

]]> 2019-01-18 05:27:15 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewmurray1/cfr6hu0nzqnw/wish/322000449 Rationing andrewmurray1 https://padlet.com/andrewmurray1/cfr6hu0nzqnw/wish/322000986 in 1942 the rationing was set into place

The program set  a limit to what they could get

8000 rationing boards were created to administer these restrictions

]]> 2019-01-18 05:35:06 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewmurray1/cfr6hu0nzqnw/wish/322000986 War Bonds andrewmurray1 https://padlet.com/andrewmurray1/cfr6hu0nzqnw/wish/322001228 wwii cost the United States $300 billion dollars with the federal budget rising from $9 billion in 1939 to $98 billion in 1945

Taxes increased 5 percent

June 10, 1943 the government approved the first automatic deduction of taxes

War bonds were sold at 75 percent of face value a $25 bond sold for $18.75]]> 2019-01-18 05:38:45 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewmurray1/cfr6hu0nzqnw/wish/322001228 "Arsenal of Democracy" andrewmurray1 https://padlet.com/andrewmurray1/cfr6hu0nzqnw/wish/322001783 Phrase used by FDR

when US finally took action in war]]> 2019-01-18 05:44:27 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewmurray1/cfr6hu0nzqnw/wish/322001783