https://padlet.com/paigemoore345/i8rb7y9tnziy en-us 2018-01-08 14:30:20 UTC 2025-12-15 17:39:50 UTC hello@padlet.com paigemoore345 https://padlet.com/paigemoore345/i8rb7y9tnziy/wish/219358812 Individual Americans volunteered to fight against Axis powers. 50 million men from the ages 18 to 45 were registered to join the military service. Around 20% were drafted based on registration. Less than .5 percent of the population serves in armed forces, compared with more than 12 percent during World War Two. ]]> 2018-01-08 14:34:17 UTC https://padlet.com/paigemoore345/i8rb7y9tnziy/wish/219358812 paigemoore345 https://padlet.com/paigemoore345/i8rb7y9tnziy/wish/219358930 This Selective Service Act required that men reaching their 21st birthday from 35th birthday had registered to be drafted. Later, when the United States entered the war, age had changed to men's 18th birthdays from 65th birthday they could become drafted into the war. ]]> 2018-01-08 14:34:32 UTC https://padlet.com/paigemoore345/i8rb7y9tnziy/wish/219358930 paigemoore345 https://padlet.com/paigemoore345/i8rb7y9tnziy/wish/219359035 Hundreds thousand women had served in combat roles and mostly in anti-aircraft units. U.S. decided not to use women for combat because public opinion would not tolerate this. Political and military leaders became desperate for help and added 400,000 women serving in uniform in non-combat roles in the United States armed forces. Around 160,000 were killed by enemy forces. ]]> 2018-01-08 14:34:46 UTC https://padlet.com/paigemoore345/i8rb7y9tnziy/wish/219359035 paigemoore345 https://padlet.com/paigemoore345/i8rb7y9tnziy/wish/219359528 All citizens were equally subject to be drafted into war. The 16 million men and women in the services included over 1 million blacks, 33,000+ Japanese-Americans, 20,000+ Chinese Americans, 25,000 American Indians, and 16,000 Filipino-Americans. ]]> 2018-01-08 14:35:40 UTC https://padlet.com/paigemoore345/i8rb7y9tnziy/wish/219359528 paigemoore345 https://padlet.com/paigemoore345/i8rb7y9tnziy/wish/219360668 Female labor forces grew by 6.5 million women workers. By 1944, 37 percent of all adult women were employed. At the height of the war, there had been 19,170,000 women working in the labor forces. Skilled women workers had made $31.21 weekly during the war men made $54.65.]]> 2018-01-08 14:37:39 UTC https://padlet.com/paigemoore345/i8rb7y9tnziy/wish/219360668 paigemoore345 https://padlet.com/paigemoore345/i8rb7y9tnziy/wish/219360850 The functions were originally to control money and rents of the people after the outbreak of World War II. Also mandates from then on, no driver will be permitted to own more than five automobile tires. Set requirement on wages and prices to products. ]]> 2018-01-08 14:37:57 UTC https://padlet.com/paigemoore345/i8rb7y9tnziy/wish/219360850 paigemoore345 https://padlet.com/paigemoore345/i8rb7y9tnziy/wish/219360964 Controlling distribution of scarce resources, goods, or services. People who had violated Rationing Regulations were subject to $10,000 fine or imprisonment. The government was worried that as food became scarcer, prices would rise and poor people might not be able to afford to eat. ]]> 2018-01-08 14:38:11 UTC https://padlet.com/paigemoore345/i8rb7y9tnziy/wish/219360964 paigemoore345 https://padlet.com/paigemoore345/i8rb7y9tnziy/wish/219361007 Seen as a way to remove money from circulation as well as to reduce inflation. Debt securities issued by a government to finance military operations in times of war. World War 2 had cost the United States $300 billion dollars. War bonds were sold at 75 percent of face value. ]]> 2018-01-08 14:38:16 UTC https://padlet.com/paigemoore345/i8rb7y9tnziy/wish/219361007 paigemoore345 https://padlet.com/paigemoore345/i8rb7y9tnziy/wish/219361123 A campaign used pledging to keep the U.S. out of the war. Trying to obtain popular support for sending military aid to nations fighting against Axis powers. United States provided the Allied cause with 44 million rounds of ammunition, 20 million machine guns and pistols, 2 million trucks, 107,000 tanks, and 93,000 ships.]]> 2018-01-08 14:38:31 UTC https://padlet.com/paigemoore345/i8rb7y9tnziy/wish/219361123 paigemoore345 https://padlet.com/paigemoore345/i8rb7y9tnziy/wish/219361309 Was made to regulate the production and allocation of materials and fuelI in the United States. Had expanded the peacetime economy to mass war production. Supervised the $185 billion worth of weapons and supplies needed for war. ]]> 2018-01-08 14:38:50 UTC https://padlet.com/paigemoore345/i8rb7y9tnziy/wish/219361309 paigemoore345 https://padlet.com/paigemoore345/i8rb7y9tnziy/wish/219361504 A United States government agency made to deliver propaganda both at home and other areas. Created to attract U.S. citizens to obtain jobs in support of the war.]]> 2018-01-08 14:39:09 UTC https://padlet.com/paigemoore345/i8rb7y9tnziy/wish/219361504 paigemoore345 https://padlet.com/paigemoore345/i8rb7y9tnziy/wish/219361634 Between 110,000 and 120,000 Japanese Americans who had been living in the west coast became prisoners. They had been forced to relocate and sent to camps.]]> 2018-01-08 14:39:25 UTC https://padlet.com/paigemoore345/i8rb7y9tnziy/wish/219361634