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US prepares for war (Americans Join the War Effort (Expanding the…
US prepares for war
Americans Join the War Effort
Expanding the Militatry
George Marshall pushed for the formation of a Women'
s Auxiliary Army Corps. Women volunteers would would serve in noncombat positions
Recruiting and Discrimination
the war created new dilemmas for minority groups. racial segregated neighborhoods and reservations and denied basic citizenship rights
Selective Service and the GI
A total of about 15 million soldiers. eight weeks of basic training
Dramatic Contributions
more than 300,000 Mexican Americans joined the armed forces. one million Africans also served in the military.
a Production Miracle
labor's Contribution
The nation thought that we did not have enough workers to met both its military and its industrial needs. they were wring. by 1944 , despite the draft nearly 18 million workers were laboring in war industries, three times as many as in 1941
Mobilization of Scientists
Roosevelt created teh Office of Scientific Research and Development in 1941 to bring scientist into the war effort. They spurreed improvements in radar and sonar, new technologies for location submarines underwater
The industrial Responce
Automobile plants had been retooled to produce tanks, planes, boats, and command cars . Nationwide factories were quickly converted to war production
The Federal Government Takes Control
. Economic controlls
Roosevelt created the Office of Price Administration, which fought inflation by freezing prices Rationed foods, such as meat, butter , cheese, vegetables, sugar, and coffee on most goods
Rationing
.rationing, or establishing fixed allotments of goods deemed essential for the military, under this system households received ration books with coupons to be used for buying such scarce goods as meat, shoes, sugar, coffee, and gasoline