Homefront WWII by Jessica Welborn https://padlet.com/jessicawelborn/r1gkuht0debo Made with the best of intentions en-us 2018-01-08 15:27:46 UTC 2024-10-15 23:08:10 UTC hello@padlet.com Military Volunteers jessicawelborn https://padlet.com/jessicawelborn/r1gkuht0debo/wish/219755399 5 million men volunteered to be in the military in WW2. Many men lied about their age so that they could enroll in the army. ]]> 2018-01-09 14:48:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jessicawelborn/r1gkuht0debo/wish/219755399 Selective Services jessicawelborn https://padlet.com/jessicawelborn/r1gkuht0debo/wish/219757627 They had men who were 21 to 35 to register to draft. When they were drafted they would serve for 12 months. This act made sure that not more than 900,000 men would be training in the same location. ]]> 2018-01-09 14:52:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jessicawelborn/r1gkuht0debo/wish/219757627 Women's Military Auxiliary Services jessicawelborn https://padlet.com/jessicawelborn/r1gkuht0debo/wish/219757790 250,000 women worked in different military branches. Members of the WAC were the first women other than nurses to be ranked in the United States Army.  ]]> 2018-01-09 14:52:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jessicawelborn/r1gkuht0debo/wish/219757790 Minority groups and their military service jessicawelborn https://padlet.com/jessicawelborn/r1gkuht0debo/wish/219758639 –500,000 Hispanics
–1,000,000 African Americans
–13,000 Chinese Americans
–33,000 Japanese Americans
–25,000 Native Americans '
When they would be fighting they would have to be segregated. Yet when they came back the still had little rights.
]]> 2018-01-09 14:53:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jessicawelborn/r1gkuht0debo/wish/219758639 Women industrial workers jessicawelborn https://padlet.com/jessicawelborn/r1gkuht0debo/wish/219758742 Women during WWII would have to go and do the jobs that the men who went off to war had been doing. They also wanted to help with the war in any way that they could. ]]> 2018-01-09 14:53:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jessicawelborn/r1gkuht0debo/wish/219758742 Office of Price Administration jessicawelborn https://padlet.com/jessicawelborn/r1gkuht0debo/wish/219758840 Controlling the prices and rent during the outbreak of WWII]]> 2018-01-09 14:53:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jessicawelborn/r1gkuht0debo/wish/219758840 Rationing jessicawelborn https://padlet.com/jessicawelborn/r1gkuht0debo/wish/219758946 They made ration so that the american people wouldn't have to spend more of their money on certain stuff. ]]> 2018-01-09 14:54:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jessicawelborn/r1gkuht0debo/wish/219758946 War Bonds jessicawelborn https://padlet.com/jessicawelborn/r1gkuht0debo/wish/219759042 This was seen as a way to remove money from circulation as well as reduce inflation. ]]> 2018-01-09 14:54:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jessicawelborn/r1gkuht0debo/wish/219759042 "Arsenal of Democracy" jessicawelborn https://padlet.com/jessicawelborn/r1gkuht0debo/wish/219759164 It was a slogan used by President Roosevelt. He had promised to help the United Kingdom fight the Nazi's by giving them supplies while the United States stayed out of the actual fighting.]]> 2018-01-09 14:54:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jessicawelborn/r1gkuht0debo/wish/219759164 War Production Board jessicawelborn https://padlet.com/jessicawelborn/r1gkuht0debo/wish/219759259 WPB was an agency of the United States government that supervised war production. ]]> 2018-01-09 14:54:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jessicawelborn/r1gkuht0debo/wish/219759259 Office of War Administration (propaganda) jessicawelborn https://padlet.com/jessicawelborn/r1gkuht0debo/wish/219759370 Was made to consolidate existing government information and send out propaganda at home and abroad. ]]> 2018-01-09 14:54:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jessicawelborn/r1gkuht0debo/wish/219759370 Japanese American Internment jessicawelborn https://padlet.com/jessicawelborn/r1gkuht0debo/wish/219759566 After the Pearl Harbor bombing President Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Executive Order 9066 ordering all Japanese-Americans to evacuate the West Coast. The camps were finally closed March 1946]]> 2018-01-09 14:54:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jessicawelborn/r1gkuht0debo/wish/219759566