U.S. Homefront During WW2 by Gervase Marie https://padlet.com/gervasemarie/x2rg5gaivj1s Gervase Mercer en-us 2020-01-10 15:35:00 UTC 2026-01-18 01:02:24 UTC hello@padlet.com Selective Service gervasemarie https://padlet.com/gervasemarie/x2rg5gaivj1s/wish/430038447
  • Because the country didn't have all the mans to fight in war successfully, the act required men to enroll in the military to fight in war 
  • Stats: 5 Million volunteered for military service & 10 Million drafted
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  • In order for men to go into war that were working noncombat jobs, it required someone to take their place. This is when women came into the picture working as nurses, drivers, electricians, ect.
  • Stats: More than 13,000 women applied on the first day. In all, some 350,000 women served in this and other auxiliary branches during the war.
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  • Minorities such as women were discriminated against at first, only being thought of as janitors until Philip Randolph organized a march on Washington. Randolph refusing to back down when asked caused Roosevelt to surrender and order a call to stop discrimination.
  • Stats: Randolph planned to bring out 100,000 people to the march
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  • In factories, women routinely faced discrimination. Employers commonly paid women one-half to two-thirds of what a man doing the same job received. The wages were pitiful.
  • Stats: In 1850, a woman garment worker in a Cleveland factory earned 104 dollars per year.
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  • Fought inflation by freezing wages, prices, and rents
  • Raised income tax so people would have less money to spend to make room for rationing.
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  • Households would receive ration books with coupons to be used for buying such scarce goods like meet, shoes, coffee, and gasoline. This was like a loan to the country during war for equipment that the country would pay back.
  • Stats: almost everyone followed this new idea and used all the rationing gear but a select few.
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  • War bonds were issued to raise money for the war effort and to fight against inflation
  • Stats: As a result of these measures, inflation remained below 30% . for the entire period of World War II
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  • The organization converted from peacetime to war time
  • Went searching for scrap, tin, paper, ect. to reuse into the war.
  • Stats: During a 5 month period paper drive in Chicago, kids collected 36 million pounds of old paper
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  • Created June 13 1942
  • documented American life and culture by showing aircraft factories, members of the armed forces, and women in the workforce. 
  • They used propaganda to inspire patriotic fervor in the American public.

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  • As a result from the attack on Japanese on pearl harbor, there was a sense of fear that the Japanese would try and strike back and work against the u.s., which caused a prejudice against them. 
  • They were stripped of everything that they had and put into terrible run down camps until the war was over.
  • Stats: The army rounded up 110,000 Japanese Americans and shipped them all to ten different locations.

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