Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
US Prepares for WWII
US Prepares for WWII
Americans Join the War Effort
Selective Service and the GI
The Selective Service System expanded the draft and eventually provided another 10 million soldiers to meet the armed forces needs
Recruiting and Discrimination
Restricted to racially segregated neighborhoods and reservations and denied basic citizenship rights, some members of these group[s questioned whether this was their war to fight.
Expanding the Military
Army Chief and Staff General George Marshall pushed for the formation of a Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC).
Dramatic Contributions
300,000 Mexican Americans joined the armed forces
1 million African Americans served in the military
13,000 Chinese Americans; 33,000 Japanese Americans
A Production Miracle
Labor's Contribution
More than 6 million of these new workers were women
Mobilization of Scientists
Manhattan Project
:warning:creating the atomic bomb
The Industrial Response
Across the nation, factories were quickly converted to war production
The Federal Government Takes Control
Economic Controls
Office of Price Administration (OPA)
: fights inflation by freezing prices on most goods
War Production Board (WPB)
Ensure armed forces and war industries received the resources they needed to win the war
Rationing
Rationing
: Establishing fixed allotments of goods deemed essential for the military