Read Chapter 25-1: Mobilizing for War and note how each of the following contributed to that effort.

Please post to your blog prior to class on Monday. Title: Mobilizing for WWII.   Labels: WWII, home front

1. Selective Service System
The selective service act required all men between the ages of 21 and 35 to register for the US draft. Those men were then eligible to be pick from a lottery would be forced to fight for a minimum of 12 months.
2. Women
The WAAC act (women’s auxiliary army corps act) allowed women to fight in WWII women in this division worked as electricians, pilots, ambulance drivers, nurses, radio operators, nearly every job that didn’t involve direct combat.
3. Minorities
Many minority groups were very unwilling to help in the war effort because they were so unfairly treated in america.
4. Manufacturers
Many industries were hugly influenced positively by the start of World War II. The manufacturing of war suplies increased therefore american bussinesses thrived during the time between 1940 and 1945. Many factories that had been car manufactering plants or other non essential manufacturers were tranformed into facturies that mad ewar material.
5. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD)
Roosevelt created the OSRD in 1941. This project was created in order to improve american technology during the war.
6 Entertainment industry
Many american movies made during the late ‘30s and early ‘40s were very anti Nazi and help to motivate americans to fight the war against them.
Office of Price Administration (OPA)
The OPA was in charge of controling the inflation rate. It did this by freezing the prices of curtain products and by making more people pay taxes than before.
8. War Production Board (WPB)
The WPDs job was to decide which manufacturing plants should be converted to making war time materials.
9. Rationing
during WWII the government had to ration item that were needed for soldiers abroad. All americans were given ration books in which were coupons that allowed them a certain amount of food and gasoline for each week.