United States Prepares for War

A Production Miracle

Americans Join the War Effort

The Federal Government Takes Control

Selective Service And The GI

Expanding The Military

Recruiting And Discrimination

Dramatic Contributions

Restricted to racially segregated
neighborhoods and reservations and denied basic citizenship
rights, some members
of these groups questioned whether this was their war to fight.

Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) U.S.
army unit created during World War II to enable women to serve
in noncombat positions

5 million who volunteered
for military service.

Some 25,000 Native Americans enlisted in the armed services, too, including
800 women.

Labor's Contribution

Mobilization Of Scientists

The Industrial Response

1944- nearly 18 million workers were laboring in war industries
.
A. Philip Randolph, president and founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and the nation’s most respected African-American labor leader, organized a march on Washington

Manhattan Project became the code name for research work that extended across the country. U.S. program to
develop an atomic bomb for use in World War II.

By the end of 1942, industrialist Henry J. Kaiser had built seven massive new shipyards that turned out Liberty ships (cargo carriers), tankers, troop transports, and “baby” aircraft carriers at an astonishing rate.

Rationing

Economic Controls

a restriction of people’s right to buy
unlimited amounts of particular foods and other goods, often
implemented during wartime to ensure adequate supplies for the
military.

Office of Price Admission (OPA) fought inflation by freezing wages, prices, and rents
War Production Board (WPB) rationed fuel and materials vital to the war effort, such as gas, heat, oil, etc.