Homefront Terms by Elizabeth Foster https://padlet.com/elizabethfoster2/cotgojqu3u61 Hr3 en-us 2020-01-10 15:31:14 UTC 2026-04-19 06:47:24 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f1fa-1f1f8.png Selective Service elizabethfoster2 https://padlet.com/elizabethfoster2/cotgojqu3u61/wish/430035441 -Selecting men for the war, giving the US soldiers to fight for their country
-5 million volunteered
-10 million drafted]]> 2020-01-10 15:33:03 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethfoster2/cotgojqu3u61/wish/430035441 Women's military auxiliary services elizabethfoster2 https://padlet.com/elizabethfoster2/cotgojqu3u61/wish/430035740 -Women serving in non-combative military positions, giving soldiers nurses, ambulance drivers, and electricians
-Thousand enlisted
-July 1943 - army dropped "auxiliary" statues]]> 2020-01-10 15:33:29 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethfoster2/cotgojqu3u61/wish/430035740 Minority groups and their military service elizabethfoster2 https://padlet.com/elizabethfoster2/cotgojqu3u61/wish/430035894 -Minorities, like Mexican Americans and African Americans, gave the military more people but more dilemmas
-300,000 Mexican Americans joined the military]]> 2020-01-10 15:33:41 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethfoster2/cotgojqu3u61/wish/430035894 Women industrial workers elizabethfoster2 https://padlet.com/elizabethfoster2/cotgojqu3u61/wish/430036036 -Women took over "manly" jobs after men left for war, giving the home front a continuous solid working force.
-18+ million workers
-6+ were women]]> 2020-01-10 15:33:53 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethfoster2/cotgojqu3u61/wish/430036036 Office of Price Administration elizabethfoster2 https://padlet.com/elizabethfoster2/cotgojqu3u61/wish/430036146 -The administration created to give the government more control, freezing prices on goods
-Inflation remained under 30%]]> 2020-01-10 15:34:02 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethfoster2/cotgojqu3u61/wish/430036146 Rationing elizabethfoster2 https://padlet.com/elizabethfoster2/cotgojqu3u61/wish/430036236 -OPA set up rationing, giving fixed amounts of what goods people were allowed to purchase]]> 2020-01-10 15:34:10 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethfoster2/cotgojqu3u61/wish/430036236 War Bonds elizabethfoster2 https://padlet.com/elizabethfoster2/cotgojqu3u61/wish/430036348 -Bonds issued to raise money for war materials and to avoid inflation]]> 2020-01-10 15:34:18 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethfoster2/cotgojqu3u61/wish/430036348 War Production Board elizabethfoster2 https://padlet.com/elizabethfoster2/cotgojqu3u61/wish/430036435 -Decided which companies would switch from peacetime to wartime production, creating tools for war
-"Collected 36 million pounds of old paper"]]> 2020-01-10 15:34:27 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethfoster2/cotgojqu3u61/wish/430036435 Office of War Information (propaganda) elizabethfoster2 https://padlet.com/elizabethfoster2/cotgojqu3u61/wish/430036544 -Office created to create propaganda, newspapers, radio ads, and more to get information out about the war and to keep connections with the war
-]]> 2020-01-10 15:34:39 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethfoster2/cotgojqu3u61/wish/430036544 Japanese American Internment elizabethfoster2 https://padlet.com/elizabethfoster2/cotgojqu3u61/wish/430036755 -The segregation of Japanese American's due to the fear that they might turn on the US based on Pearl Harbor events
-1,444 Japanese Americans forced into internment
-37% of the Hawaii population was Japanese Americans]]> 2020-01-10 15:34:54 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethfoster2/cotgojqu3u61/wish/430036755