1. Mobilizing For War
Chapter 12, Section 1

2. Converting the Economy
Cost-Plus Contracts: Government guaranteed companies whatever it cost to make a product plus a percentage for profit
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
Set up during the Depression
Now allowed to make loans to companies changing to produce war goods

3. American Industry
Auto-Industry: Made about 1/3 of all military equipment during the war

4. American Industry (cont.)
Liberty Ships: Basic cargo ship that were mass produced

5. American Industry (cont.)

6. American Industry (cont.)

7. American Industry (cont.)

8. American Industry (cont.)
War Production Board (WPB)
January 1942
Designed to organize how much of a war material was produced, and when

9. Building an Army Selective Service & Training Act:
June 1940, after France was defeated
Segregated Army
Mainly white officers
Most were kept out of combat units

10. Building an Army (cont.)
“Double V”
Victory over Hitler’s racism overseas
Victory over racism at home

11. Building an Army (cont.)
Women join the armed forces
Not allowed in combat
“Release a man for combat”

12. Building an Army (cont.)
Overall:
America was NOT ready for war in 1941
Not enough soldiers
Not enough equipment
Not enough facilities
HOWEVER… due to our industrial power we caught up quickly