https://padlet.com/mckenziewessel1/z3fyxkrqh2px en-us 2020-01-10 15:29:31 UTC 2020-01-10 16:47:29 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f985.png mckenziewessel1 https://padlet.com/mckenziewessel1/z3fyxkrqh2px/wish/430036592 Men 18 years and older were required to apply. The draft chose people based on birth dates, you could not refuse without facing heavy penalties. Ten million men were drafted, five million more volunteered.]]> 2020-01-10 15:34:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mckenziewessel1/z3fyxkrqh2px/wish/430036592 mckenziewessel1 https://padlet.com/mckenziewessel1/z3fyxkrqh2px/wish/430037912 This was the women's branch of the military. Over 150,000 women served in the WAAC during WW2. They were not put in combat jobs, instead, they handled files, issued weapons, ect.]]> 2020-01-10 15:36:28 UTC https://padlet.com/mckenziewessel1/z3fyxkrqh2px/wish/430037912 mckenziewessel1 https://padlet.com/mckenziewessel1/z3fyxkrqh2px/wish/430038403 All citizens were equally subject to the draft. All minorities were given the same rate of pay. Roughly 16 million minorities were drafted and/or volunteered during WW2.]]> 2020-01-10 15:37:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mckenziewessel1/z3fyxkrqh2px/wish/430038403 mckenziewessel1 https://padlet.com/mckenziewessel1/z3fyxkrqh2px/wish/430038681 Stressed the patriotic need for women to enter the work force. Though women were crucial to the war effort, their pay continued to lag far behind their male counterparts. More than 310,000 women worked in the U.S. aircraft industry in 1943, representing 65 percent of the industry’s total workforce ]]> 2020-01-10 15:37:27 UTC https://padlet.com/mckenziewessel1/z3fyxkrqh2px/wish/430038681 mckenziewessel1 https://padlet.com/mckenziewessel1/z3fyxkrqh2px/wish/430038944 This is the federal agency tasked with establishing price controls on nonagricultural items and rationing  food during WW2.]]> 2020-01-10 15:37:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mckenziewessel1/z3fyxkrqh2px/wish/430038944 mckenziewessel1 https://padlet.com/mckenziewessel1/z3fyxkrqh2px/wish/430039241 Rationing is the controlled distribution of scarce resources. In order to provide U.S. troops and allies with food, citizens had to reduce their personal consumption of meat, wheat, fats and sugar. ]]> 2020-01-10 15:38:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mckenziewessel1/z3fyxkrqh2px/wish/430039241 mckenziewessel1 https://padlet.com/mckenziewessel1/z3fyxkrqh2px/wish/430039359 A war bond is a debt security issued by a government to finance military operations during times of war. More than 80 million Americans purchased war Bonds and brought in over $180 billion in revenue.]]> 2020-01-10 15:38:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mckenziewessel1/z3fyxkrqh2px/wish/430039359 mckenziewessel1 https://padlet.com/mckenziewessel1/z3fyxkrqh2px/wish/430039468 The WPB directed conversion of industries from peacetime work to war needs, allocated scarce materials, established priorities in the distribution of materials and services, and prohibited nonessential production.]]> 2020-01-10 15:38:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mckenziewessel1/z3fyxkrqh2px/wish/430039468 mckenziewessel1 https://padlet.com/mckenziewessel1/z3fyxkrqh2px/wish/430039660 They were in charge of making propaganda for the war and convincing Americans through ads and such. There were over 200,000 poster designs made and printed during WW2.]]> 2020-01-10 15:38:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mckenziewessel1/z3fyxkrqh2px/wish/430039660 mckenziewessel1 https://padlet.com/mckenziewessel1/z3fyxkrqh2px/wish/430039814 Because of the fear that Japanese Americans would betray their country, the USA put all of them in internment camps. Around 120,000 people were put in camps. Of that number, 62 percent were Americans.]]> 2020-01-10 15:38:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mckenziewessel1/z3fyxkrqh2px/wish/430039814