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Mobilization on the Home Front
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Selective Service System
• Provided ten million soldiers to American armed forces
• GI’s trained for 8 weeks– Government Issue
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Women
• George Marshall pushed for WAAC• Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps• Women performed duties being done by
soldiers
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Discrimination
• Unidentified African American male after receiving his draft notice
• “Just carve on my tombstone, Here lies a black man killed fighting a yellow man for the protection of a white man.”
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Minorities in the Armed Services
• 500,000 Mexican Americans served• 1,000,000 African Americans served• Around 50,000 Asian Americans served• 25,000 Native Americans served
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Industrial Response
• Factories converted to produce war materials• Tanks• Guns• Uniforms• Ships• planes
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A. Philip Randolph
• Organized a march on Washington to challenge segregation in war industries
• Roosevelt desegregated war industries as a response (Executive Order 8802)
• March never held
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OSRD: Office of Scientific Research and Development
• Led by scientists researching ways to create the atom bomb
• The Manhattan Project had begun
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Celebrity Culture
• Geared towards the War
• Propaganda films produced such as Hitler, Beast of Berlin
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OPA: Office of Price Administration
• Fought inflation by freezing wages, prices, and rents
• Rationed foods such as meat, butter, cheese, vegetables, sugar, and coffee
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WPB: War Production Board
• Rationed fuel and materials vital to the war effort such as gasoline, heating oil, metals, rubber, and plastics
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Rationing
• Carpooling• Collecting materials• Coping with shortages• Americans felt they were contributing to the
war effort
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