Mobilizing for WWII.

Read Chapter 25-1: Mobilizing for War and note how each of the following contributed to that effort.

Please post to your blog prior to class on Monday. Title: Mobilizing for WWII. Labels: WWII, homefront

1. Selective Service System
Added 5 million volunteers to the war effort and military services.

2. Women
Women worked as far away from the violence as possible but still contributed by working in the war as nurses, electricians and ambulence drivers.

3. Minorities
Although minorities were very helpful in the war effort, they were discriminated against on all levels. They were unhappy about the fact that they would be fighting against other ethnic groups in the war but fought none the less.

4. Manufacturers
All manufacturings were producing war materials and combat weapons. Automobile industries now made ships and tanks and planes.

5. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD)
Improved sonar and radar, made medicines that helped out injured people. However their greatest success was the atomic bomb. The manhatten project gathered information and materials to create the atomic bomb with the help of Albert Einstein.

6 Entertainment industry
During the war the movie industries were creating propaganda movies that enhanced peoples enthusiam towards the war. For instance Mission to Moscow was a movie that helped people realize our ally the Soviet Union. Also many other movies created Anti-Nazi sentiments in the country that encouraged people to join the war effort.

7. Office of Price Administration (OPA)
Created this administration to keep inflation less than 30%. Raised income tax so that manufacturers didnt have to pay as much. Kept inflation steady.

8. War Production Board (WPB)
Controlled companies by saying what could be manufactured and where in could be imported to. Recycled materials like tin, paper, and cooking fat.

9. Rationing
Limited the amount of food that people could buy and keep in their home. Bought coupons that raised the prices of food. Americans also could not buy gas so that it could be used for planes ships and tanks.