1. Section 1 Mobilizing for Defense
Chapter 17
Section 1
Mobilizing for Defense

2. Selective Service WWI: (Sept. 1917-Nov. 1918) 2,810,296
WWII: (Nov Oct. 1946)
10,110,104
Korea: (June 1950-June 1953) 
1,529,539
Vietnam: (Aug Feb 1973)
1,857,304

3. Minority Contributions
Women- WAAC
“why die for democracy for some foreign country when we don’t even have it here?”
Mexican-Americans = 300,000
African-Americans= 1,000,000
Chinese-Americans=13,000
Japanese-Americans= 33,000
Native-Americans=25,000
Why did so many minorities volunteer to fight?

4. Production Miracle Factories converted to war production
6 million women hired
2 million minority men hired

5. A. Philip Randolph
Founder of Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters organizes a march on Washington
“We Loyal Colored Americans Demand the Right to Work and Fight for Our Country”
FDR issues executive order calling on employers and labor unions to end discriminatory practices in exchange for cancelling march on Washington

6. Scientists 1941 Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD)
Radar
Sonar
Penicillin
Manhattan Project – program to develop the atomic bomb

7. Federal Government Takes Control
Office of Price Administration – fight inflation
War Production Board- decided which companies would convert from peacetime to wartime production, organized recycling drives, rationing