1. On the Home Front
Chapter 26 Section 3

2. America Prepares for War
1. Under the Selective Service Act more than 15 million Americans joined the armed forces.
2. About 250,000 women served in the
-WAC (Women’s Army Corps)
-WAVES (Women Appointed for Volunteer Service in the Navy)
-Marines, Coast Guard and Army Air Corps.
3. Did not fight, served as nurses and did clerical work.

5. Mobilization 1. Military and civilian preparations for war,
equipping troops with arms and other materials.
2. New Gov’t agencies:
War Production Board: industries converted to war production.
Office of Price Administration
National War Labor Board: resolve disputes that may slow down war production

6. Financing the War $320 billion spent on war effort
Revenue Act of much raised through taxes
Borrowed money
Sold war bonds

8. Wartime America
Factories produced 70,000 ships, 100,000 tanks, airplanes and millions of guns.
Resources needed for war rationed: gasoline, tires, sugar and meat
Victory Gardens-grew vegetables in short supply
Scrap metal collected

9. Local county boards of the Office of Price Administration issued every man, woman, and child a ration book during the war. So much food needed to be set aside for military use that the government restricted civilian purchases. County boards rationed sugar, coffee, meat, butter, margarine, cheese, canned milk, canned fish, canned fruits and vegetables, soups, and fruit juices.
Recipes in this book offer women options for cooking without sugar. The Office of Price Administration restricted civilian purchases of sugar because of a shortage. The war in the Pacific slowed the import of sugar into the country.

10. Wartime Women
Women were welders and riveters, worked in factories making war materials.
Ad Campaign: Rosie the Riveter

11. African Americans 1 million served in war Segregated units
1942 trained together and received combat assignments
332nd Fighter Group, Tuskegee Airmen, trained at Tuskegee, Alabama
Shot down more than 200 enemy planes
First AA General in Air Force, Benjamin Davis, Jr.

16. Native Americans Joined armed forces
Navajo Code Talkers-created a special code to communicate troop movement and battle plans.
Code based on Navajo language, Japanese never able to break code.

18. Hispanic Americans 250,000 served in war
Recruited 1000’s of workers to support war effort
Mercedes Cubria- first Hispanic woman officer, WAC
Horatio Rivero- First Hispanic 4 star General

19. Japanese Americans Feared and hated by Americans
2/3 were American citizens
100,000 sent to internment camps in desert areas of west
Had to leave homes and possessions
Many lost homes and possessions after release.

20. Japanese Internment Camps, California Desert

22. Internment Camps, California

23. Alabama and the War
FORT MORGAN AIRSTRIP, 2004

24. Air Station, Foley, Alabama

25. Shipyard, Mobile
USS DRUM: submarine, located at Battleship Park

26. USS ALABAMA

27. WARTIME MOBILE

28. WARTIME MOBILE

29. Wartime Mobile, Dauphin Street