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 Services Selective Service Act aka Burke-Wadsworth Act, enacted September 16, 1940, was the first peacetime draft in US history. This Selective Service Act required that men between the ages of 21 and 35 register with local draft boards.  Later, when the U.S. entered WWII, all men aged 18 to 45 were made subject to military service, and all men aged 18 to 65 were required to register

 WAC Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps. 258,000 would serve in this area during the war  WAVE- Navy Women  SPARs- Coast guard Truck drivers, mechanic, radio operator, air traffic controller, parachute riggers

 African-Americans  Japanese-Americans  Mexican-Americans  Women  Lower jobs, wages and less respect

 16 million+ men and women will serve in armed forces  Women will want to stay in the armed forces  Armed forces will be desegregated in the next 20 year

 End of Neutrality acts  FDR  Four Freedoms  Mobilization  War production Board  Manhattan Project  Office of Price Administration (OPA)  Propaganda

 Neutrality acts- 1935, 1936, 1937 and 1939… All of these acts were created in order to keep the US out of the conflicts that were happening in Europe. The US placed embargo acts on arms and resources Promoted isolationism

 He gained power, popularity and the love of the nation He is given power to influence the economy and increases the production for military needs Promoted the war effort Attended conferences and did the political necessities to win the war Encouraged the country Would become part of the BIG 3

 Norman Rockwell Cover of the Post Known artist and well liked Political cartoons Modern Santa Coke-a-cola  Four Freedoms Protect our freedoms Freedoms  Speech, From Fear, From Want, Freedom of Worship

 Getting the economy ready  Getting the Troops ready  Getting citizens ready  Everyone is ready for WAR  Put all of our resources into preparing our army and military for combat

 Main task is to manage the conversion of industries to military production Automobile factories  airplane and tank  1942 Roosevelt and the WPB Took our resources and made them work specifically for the war effort  1943 The USA is producing 2x what the enemy was producing

 Establish research for building the Atomic Bomb  Various locations  Working with different countries  New Mexico was a testing site

 Froze prices and rent in 1942  Rationed about 20 basic consumer products Gasoline, tires, sugar, meats, and processed food  Coupon books Each month turned in a coupon when they bought a “rationed” item

 Taxes, Loans and Bonds Taxes  Financed 45% of the war Loans  From banks Bonds  From citizens and supplied cash for the government

 Armed Services  Ms. Rosie the Riveter National Icon Represented the 5 million women working in factories or outside the home to support the war effort Encouraged to join the labor Force  Social Changes Working outside the house Working in factories Increased wages, family income Proved women were capable of doing  After the war Stay in the work force New Freedom

 African- Americans Millions serve in segregated forces  Tuskegee airmen Workplace  Lower pay and race riots  Race Riots- Detroit and Zoot Suit  Double V campaign Democracy at home and abroad  Mexican Americans Discriminated against in the work place and society Zoot Suit Riot

 Federal Law passed 9066 Feb. 19 th 1942  110,000 Japanese-Americans were taken to interment camps 1/3 were foreign born 2/3 were American born  10 Different locations for camps In 7 different states  Were told to get packed and go  Conditions unfair and dehumanizing  Still they remained loyal to the US One of the highest decorated and honored unit of WWII is an all Japanese volunteer unit Overall 17,600 Japanese- Americans would fight in WWII

 Argued what was happening was unconstitutional and violated American rights  Judges ruled it as constitutional because of war time  The affects 105 Million lost their farms 500 million lost their homes  In 1988 President Regan apologizes  1990 Regan gives money to internees