Mobilizing for Defense

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• Mobilizing for Defense
• 17.1 Quick Notes

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Americans join the war effort

• Selective Service System
• Women WAAC
• Minorities Mexican, African, Asian, Native
  Americans

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Life on the home front

• Factories converted to war production
• Minorities women labored in war industries
• A. Philip Randolph leads march to protest
  discrimination

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Life on the home front (cont.)

• Scientists brought to war effort (OSRD)
• Beginning of Manhattan Project
• Entertainment spending
• increased

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The Federal Government takes control

• Economic Controls
• OPA fought inflation by freezing prices set up
  rationing
• WPB Companies convert to wartime production

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17.1 Review Questions p.568 2-4

• 2.) Taking notes (web diagram)
• 3.) Analyzing Events
• 4.) Analyzing Visual Sources

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A couple more

• 5.) In what ways did members of the Womens
  Auxiliary Corps contribute to the war effort?
• 6.) In what way did American industries
  contribute to the war?
• 7.) In what ways did the federal government take
  control of the economy during the war?