U.S. Homefront by Alexa Brunin-Gaither https://padlet.com/alexabruningaither/ko4iuoxa4p9ges6y en-us 2021-01-25 16:15:44 UTC 2025-10-22 18:15:47 UTC hello@padlet.com Selective Service Draft alexabruningaither https://padlet.com/alexabruningaither/ko4iuoxa4p9ges6y/wish/1122723837 16 million men between the ages of 21 and 35 were registered.Congress
also passed the nation’s first peacetime military draft. 1 million were to be drafted for one year but were only allowed
to serve in the Western Hemisphere. ]]> 2021-01-25 16:18:43 UTC https://padlet.com/alexabruningaither/ko4iuoxa4p9ges6y/wish/1122723837 Office of Price Administration (OPA) alexabruningaither https://padlet.com/alexabruningaither/ko4iuoxa4p9ges6y/wish/1122749330 The OPA fought inflation by freezing prices on most goods.The result of these measures, inflation remained below 30 percent about half that of World War I for the entire period of World War II.]]> 2021-01-25 16:22:45 UTC https://padlet.com/alexabruningaither/ko4iuoxa4p9ges6y/wish/1122749330 Rationing alexabruningaither https://padlet.com/alexabruningaither/ko4iuoxa4p9ges6y/wish/1122750961 The OPA set up a system for rationing, or establishing
fixed allotments of goods deemed essential for the military. Households received ration books with coupons to be used for buying such scarce
goods as meat.]]> 2021-01-25 16:23:00 UTC https://padlet.com/alexabruningaither/ko4iuoxa4p9ges6y/wish/1122750961 War Production Board (WPB) alexabruningaither https://padlet.com/alexabruningaither/ko4iuoxa4p9ges6y/wish/1122759757 The WPB decided which companies would convert from
peacetime to wartime production and allocated raw materials to key industries.During one five month long paper drive in
Chicago, schoolchildren collected 36 million pounds of old
paper about 65 pounds per child.]]> 2021-01-25 16:24:19 UTC https://padlet.com/alexabruningaither/ko4iuoxa4p9ges6y/wish/1122759757 Japanese American Internment alexabruningaither https://padlet.com/alexabruningaither/ko4iuoxa4p9ges6y/wish/1122765770 When the war began 120,000 Japanese Americans lived in the United States. 110,000 Japanese Americans and shipped them to ten hastily constructed remote relocation centers, euphemisms for prison camps. General Delos Emmons, the military governor of Hawaii, resisted the order because 37 percent of the people in Hawaii were Japanese Americans. ]]> 2021-01-25 16:25:18 UTC https://padlet.com/alexabruningaither/ko4iuoxa4p9ges6y/wish/1122765770