1. Building Military Strength

2. Cost-Plus Contracts Gov’t pays cost + a profit percent
More product = More profit
Cost gov’t a lot BUT war goods made

3. Detroit “Arsenal of Democracy”
Detroit made 1/3 of war goods
4,000 tanks per month

4. Rosie the Riveter From Willow Run Airport
Women made up 1/3 or workforce

5. Liberty Ships Used Ford’s Assembly line concept
Pre-built parts assembled at port
Welded instead of Riveted
1 ship ever 17 days

6. War Production Board
Set production priorities and goals

7. Building an Army

8. Draft
First peacetime draft – after Poland
Ranked 19th in World

9. Enlisted Post Pearl Harbor 60,000 sign up/month
G.I. Government Issued (uniforms)

10. Segregation Segregated Army Tuskegee Airmen
Squadron that protected bombers
Add intro gov’t quote from video quote

11. Double “V” Campaign
Victory against Hitler
Victory against Segregation

12. Women 400,000 women in military NO Combat W.A.S.P.s Nurses/Clerical
Pilots that made deliveries

13. African Americans Great migration north to work in plants
Detroit & Chicago
Belle Isle Riot 25 AA 9 W killed

14. Mexican Americans
CA teen crime rate rose
Zoot Suits vs Victory Suit

15. Japanese Americans West coast angry at Japanese Relocation Camps
FDR forced Jap. Into camps
Fear of spies/attacks
Supreme Court Approved
military security
Reagan later apologized

16. Rationing
Stamps used to buy food & goods
Gas = 35 mph
1 book / month

17. Victory Gardens Plant a garden to save food
Donate materials to the war
Rubber, tin, aluminum, oil, fat
Exchange bacon grease for coupons

18. Liberty Bonds Gov’t spent $300 billion
E Bonds: $ $25 in ten years
Citizens: $50 billion
Companies: $150 billion

19. Wage & Price Controls Price & wage freezes
Post-war prices rose ½ as much as WWI
Minimized strikes