https://padlet.com/taylordowding/v5pwxdn9oqc8 en-us 2020-01-30 15:28:00 UTC 2023-03-29 14:24:14 UTC hello@padlet.com taylordowding https://padlet.com/taylordowding/v5pwxdn9oqc8/wish/438216428 Virtually all men living in the U.S. are required by law to register with Selective Service within 30 days of their 18th birthday. If a young man fails to register before he turns 26, he can permanently lose access to: All federally funded job training programs, along with many state and locally funded programs. More than 60% the people in the military in ww2 were volunteers you're looking at less than 4% chance of being drafted. ]]> 2020-01-30 15:29:39 UTC https://padlet.com/taylordowding/v5pwxdn9oqc8/wish/438216428 taylordowding https://padlet.com/taylordowding/v5pwxdn9oqc8/wish/438222628 The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps was established to work with the Army, "for the purpose of making available to the national defense the knowledge, skill, and special training of the women of the nation. The Army would provide up to 150,000 auxiliaries with food, uniforms, living quarters, pay, and medical supplies.]]> 2020-01-30 15:37:01 UTC https://padlet.com/taylordowding/v5pwxdn9oqc8/wish/438222628 taylordowding https://padlet.com/taylordowding/v5pwxdn9oqc8/wish/438225606 Ethnic minorities served in the US armed forces during World War II. All citizens were equally subject to the draft. All minorities were given the same rate of pay.]]> 2020-01-30 15:40:08 UTC https://padlet.com/taylordowding/v5pwxdn9oqc8/wish/438225606 taylordowding https://padlet.com/taylordowding/v5pwxdn9oqc8/wish/438226964 During the twentieth century, more women began to find employment in the industrial sector. ... Still, women's contributions were vital in this time. Women factory workers sometimes made the difference in their families' lives, providing the necessary income to house and feed their loved ones.]]> 2020-01-30 15:41:38 UTC https://padlet.com/taylordowding/v5pwxdn9oqc8/wish/438226964 taylordowding https://padlet.com/taylordowding/v5pwxdn9oqc8/wish/438228282 The Office of Price Administration was established within the Office for Emergency Management of the United States government by Executive Order 8875 on August 28, 1941. The functions of the OPA were originally to control money  and rents after the outbreak of World War II.]]> 2020-01-30 15:43:09 UTC https://padlet.com/taylordowding/v5pwxdn9oqc8/wish/438228282 taylordowding https://padlet.com/taylordowding/v5pwxdn9oqc8/wish/438230078 On 8 January 1940, bacon, butter and sugar were rationed. This was followed by successive ration schemes for meat, tea, jam, biscuits, breakfast cereals, cheese, eggs, lard, milk and canned and dried fruit. Fresh vegetables and fruit were not rationed but supplies were limited.

]]> 2020-01-30 15:45:44 UTC https://padlet.com/taylordowding/v5pwxdn9oqc8/wish/438230078 taylordowding https://padlet.com/taylordowding/v5pwxdn9oqc8/wish/438231026 War bonds are debt securities issued by a government to finance military operations and other expenditure in times of war. In practice, modern governments finance war by putting additional money into circulation, and the function of the bonds is to remove money from circulation and help to control inflation.]]> 2020-01-30 15:46:58 UTC https://padlet.com/taylordowding/v5pwxdn9oqc8/wish/438231026 taylordowding https://padlet.com/taylordowding/v5pwxdn9oqc8/wish/438232270 The War Production Board was an agency of the United States government that supervised war production during World War II. President Franklin D. Roosevelt established it in January 1942, with Executive Order 9024.]]> 2020-01-30 15:48:30 UTC https://padlet.com/taylordowding/v5pwxdn9oqc8/wish/438232270 taylordowding https://padlet.com/taylordowding/v5pwxdn9oqc8/wish/438233288 The United States Office of War Information was a United States government agency created during World War II. OWI operated from June 1942 until September 1945.]]> 2020-01-30 15:49:48 UTC https://padlet.com/taylordowding/v5pwxdn9oqc8/wish/438233288 taylordowding https://padlet.com/taylordowding/v5pwxdn9oqc8/wish/438234408 The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in concentration camps in the western interior of the country of about 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom lived on the Pacific Coast.]]> 2020-01-30 15:51:13 UTC https://padlet.com/taylordowding/v5pwxdn9oqc8/wish/438234408