1. Mobilization on the Home Front

2. Selective Service System
Provided ten million soldiers to American armed forces
GI’s trained for 8 weeks
Government Issue

3. Women George Marshall pushed for WAAC Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps
Women performed duties being done by soldiers

4. Discrimination
Unidentified African American male after receiving his draft notice
“Just carve on my tombstone, Here lies a black man killed fighting a yellow man for the protection of a white man.”

5. Minorities in the Armed Services
500,000 Mexican Americans served
1,000,000 African Americans served
Around 50,000 Asian Americans served
25,000 Native Americans served

6. Industrial Response Factories converted to produce war materials Tanks
Guns
Uniforms
Ships
planes

7. A. Philip Randolph
Organized a march on Washington to challenge segregation in war industries
Roosevelt desegregated war industries as a response (Executive Order 8802)
March never held

8. OSRD: Office of Scientific Research and Development
Led by scientists researching ways to create the atom bomb
The Manhattan Project had begun

9. Celebrity Culture Geared towards the War
Propaganda films produced such as Hitler, Beast of Berlin

10. OPA: Office of Price Administration
Fought inflation by freezing wages, prices, and rents
Rationed foods such as meat, butter, cheese, vegetables, sugar, and coffee

11. WPB: War Production Board
Rationed fuel and materials vital to the war effort such as gasoline, heating oil, metals, rubber, and plastics

12. Rationing Carpooling Collecting materials Coping with shortages
Americans felt they were contributing to the war effort