united states homefront by Wesley Strohm https://padlet.com/wesleystrohm/uirmr5x848w4 en-us 2020-01-27 17:13:31 UTC 2025-11-02 10:41:45 UTC hello@padlet.com selective service wesleystrohm https://padlet.com/wesleystrohm/uirmr5x848w4/wish/436532693 The first peacetime draft was initiated in 1940, prior to U.S. entry into World War II. It enabled the U.S. response to the attack on Pearl Harbor. A resulting piece of legislation—The Selective Service Act of 1948—serves as the basis for the modern Selective Service System. Between 1948 and 1979, the Selective Service System was put on stand by. However, efforts in the 1980s led to the current form of the Selective Service System seen today.]]> 2020-01-27 17:15:00 UTC https://padlet.com/wesleystrohm/uirmr5x848w4/wish/436532693 women's military auxiliary service wesleystrohm https://padlet.com/wesleystrohm/uirmr5x848w4/wish/436536222 many were not willing to allow women into the forces. Thousands of women had worked as nurses in the Army, Marines, and Navy nursing corps during WWI, but they had not fought. In May 1941, Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts introduced a bill to create a women’s auxiliary army. ]]> 2020-01-27 17:19:49 UTC https://padlet.com/wesleystrohm/uirmr5x848w4/wish/436536222 minorities in the military wesleystrohm https://padlet.com/wesleystrohm/uirmr5x848w4/wish/436540992 The Army accepted black enlistees but created separate black infantry regiments and assigned white commanders to them. The Army Air Corps' black fighter wing was completely separate, training at an all black university at Tuskegee, Alabama. The Navy segregated Negro units and gave them the most menial jobs on ships. And the Marines, at least initially, didn't even accept African Americans. At every training base, black and white soldiers were kept apart.
But in the chaos of war, segregation broke down. It's hard to keep the races apart when both are being attacked.
]]> 2020-01-27 17:26:03 UTC https://padlet.com/wesleystrohm/uirmr5x848w4/wish/436540992 women industrial workers wesleystrohm https://padlet.com/wesleystrohm/uirmr5x848w4/wish/436548719 Women have always worked outside the home but never before in the numbers or with the same impact as they did in World War II. Prior to the war, most of the women that did work were from the lower working classes and many of these were minorities. There were a variety of attitudes towards women in the work force.]]> 2020-01-27 17:37:04 UTC https://padlet.com/wesleystrohm/uirmr5x848w4/wish/436548719 office of price administration wesleystrohm https://padlet.com/wesleystrohm/uirmr5x848w4/wish/436558954 president Roosevelt established the Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply in April 1941 to “stabilize prices and rents and prevent unwarranted increases in them; to prevent profiteering, hoarding and speculation]]> 2020-01-27 17:49:34 UTC https://padlet.com/wesleystrohm/uirmr5x848w4/wish/436558954 rationing wesleystrohm https://padlet.com/wesleystrohm/uirmr5x848w4/wish/436564490 During the Second World War, you couldn't just walk into a shop and buy as much sugar or butter or meat as you wanted, nor could you fill up your car with gasoline whenever you liked. All these things were rationed, which meant you were only allowed to buy a small amount (even if you could afford more). The government introduced rationing because certain things were in short supply during the war, and rationing was the only way to make sure everyone got their fair share.]]> 2020-01-27 17:55:49 UTC https://padlet.com/wesleystrohm/uirmr5x848w4/wish/436564490 war bonds wesleystrohm https://padlet.com/wesleystrohm/uirmr5x848w4/wish/436566071 The concept behind war bonds is simple: A nation sells some debt in the form of a bond and uses the proceeds to fund military options. They are essentially a loan to the government to help fund a war. ]]> 2020-01-27 17:58:02 UTC https://padlet.com/wesleystrohm/uirmr5x848w4/wish/436566071 war production board wesleystrohm https://padlet.com/wesleystrohm/uirmr5x848w4/wish/436570161 In the wake of Pearl Harbor, the president set staggering goals for the nation’s factories: 60,000 aircraft in 1942 and 125,000 in 1943; 120,000 tanks in the same time period and 55,000 antiaircraft guns. In an attempt to coordinate government war agencies Roosevelt created the War Production Board]]> 2020-01-27 18:03:45 UTC https://padlet.com/wesleystrohm/uirmr5x848w4/wish/436570161 office of war information wesleystrohm https://padlet.com/wesleystrohm/uirmr5x848w4/wish/436578506 The Office of War Information (OWI) was created in 1942 and served as an important U.S. government propaganda agency during World War II. During 1942 and 1943, the OWI contained two photographic units: (1) a section headed by Roy Emerson Stryker and (2) the News Bureau (the units were merged during 1943). ]]> 2020-01-27 18:15:43 UTC https://padlet.com/wesleystrohm/uirmr5x848w4/wish/436578506 Japanese American internment wesleystrohm https://padlet.com/wesleystrohm/uirmr5x848w4/wish/436579317 The attack on Pearl Harbor also launched a rash of fear about national security, especially on the West Coast. In February 1942, just two months after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt as commander-in-chief, issued Executive Order 9066, which had the effect of relocating all persons of Japanese ancestry,]]> 2020-01-27 18:16:46 UTC https://padlet.com/wesleystrohm/uirmr5x848w4/wish/436579317