Chapter 25(1). 1. Selective Service: -Five Million people volunteered -Draft: Provided an additional 10 million 2. Women: -WAC’s (Women’s Army Corps)

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Chapter 25(1)

1. Selective Service: -Five Million people volunteered -Draft: Provided an additional 10 million 2. Women: -WAC’s (Women’s Army Corps) worked as nurses, ambulance drivers, radio operators, electricians and pilots. Noncombat positions -6 million Women entered the workforce 3. Minorities: -Faced discrimination in the military and workplace -Military service to the United States *300,000 Mexican Americans *1 million African Americans (originally noncombat) *33,000 Japanese Americans *25,000 Native Americans -Industry *2 million African Americans

4. Manufacturers: -Factories were converted to war production -Automobile Manufacturers = tanks, planes, & boats -Mechanical Pencils = bomb parts -Bedspread Manufacturer = mosquito netting -Soda Company – filled shells with explosives -Shipyards and defense plants expanded at record speed 5. Office of Scientific Research and development (OSRD) -Improved radar and sonar; encouraged the use of pesticides to fight insects; pushed the development of “miracle drugs”- penicillin- that saved lives; developed the atomic bomb “Manhattan Project.”

6. Entertainment Industry: -Made propaganda films -Helped sell war bonds 7. War Production Board (WPB) -Organized nationwide scrap drives (iron, tin, paper, etc.) -Allocated raw materials to key industries 8. Rationing: -Ration Books used to buy scarce items such as meat, shoes, sugar, cooking fat, coffee, and gasoline.