world war 2 U.S homefront by Hannah Watkins https://padlet.com/hannahwatkins1/n2elw1rqf9bv en-us 2020-01-10 15:34:56 UTC 2020-01-29 16:15:50 UTC hello@padlet.com selective service hannahwatkins1 https://padlet.com/hannahwatkins1/n2elw1rqf9bv/wish/430038265 The Selective Service System expanded the draft and eventually provided another 10 million soldiers to meet the armed forces’ needs.]]> 2020-01-10 15:36:59 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahwatkins1/n2elw1rqf9bv/wish/430038265 Women's military auxiliary services hannahwatkins1 https://padlet.com/hannahwatkins1/n2elw1rqf9bv/wish/430038793 The military’s work force needs were so great that Army Chief of Staff General George Marshall pushed for the formation of a Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps.]]> 2020-01-10 15:37:35 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahwatkins1/n2elw1rqf9bv/wish/430038793 Minority groups and their military service hannahwatkins1 https://padlet.com/hannahwatkins1/n2elw1rqf9bv/wish/430038924  “I was havin’ trouble in school. . . . The war’d been goin’ on for two years. I didn’t wanna miss it. . . . I was an American. I was seventeen.”]]> 2020-01-10 15:37:47 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahwatkins1/n2elw1rqf9bv/wish/430038924 Women industrial workers hannahwatkins1 https://padlet.com/hannahwatkins1/n2elw1rqf9bv/wish/430039082 once women proved they could operate welding torches or riveting guns as well as men, employers could not hire enough of them—especially since women earned only about 60 percent as much as men doing the same jobs.]]> 2020-01-10 15:37:57 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahwatkins1/n2elw1rqf9bv/wish/430039082 Office of Price Administration hannahwatkins1 https://padlet.com/hannahwatkins1/n2elw1rqf9bv/wish/430039226 The OPA fought inflation by freezing prices on most goods. Congress also raised income tax rates and extended the tax to millions of people who had never paid it before. ]]> 2020-01-10 15:38:08 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahwatkins1/n2elw1rqf9bv/wish/430039226 Rationing hannahwatkins1 https://padlet.com/hannahwatkins1/n2elw1rqf9bv/wish/430039376 The OPA set up a system for rationing, or establishing fixed allotments of goods deemed essential for the military. ]]> 2020-01-10 15:38:18 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahwatkins1/n2elw1rqf9bv/wish/430039376 War bonds hannahwatkins1 https://padlet.com/hannahwatkins1/n2elw1rqf9bv/wish/430039480 2020-01-10 15:38:26 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahwatkins1/n2elw1rqf9bv/wish/430039480 War Production Board hannahwatkins1 https://padlet.com/hannahwatkins1/n2elw1rqf9bv/wish/430039603 The WPB decided which companies would convert from
peacetime to wartime production and allocated raw materials to key industries.]]> 2020-01-10 15:38:36 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahwatkins1/n2elw1rqf9bv/wish/430039603 Office of War Information (propaganda) hannahwatkins1 https://padlet.com/hannahwatkins1/n2elw1rqf9bv/wish/430040682 2020-01-10 15:39:53 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahwatkins1/n2elw1rqf9bv/wish/430040682 Japanese American Internment hannahwatkins1 https://padlet.com/hannahwatkins1/n2elw1rqf9bv/wish/430040819 2020-01-10 15:40:03 UTC https://padlet.com/hannahwatkins1/n2elw1rqf9bv/wish/430040819