MOBILIZATION ON THE HOME FRONT

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Chapter 17
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Section 1

• MOBILIZATION ON THE HOME FRONT

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Selective Service and the GI

• GI U. S. soldiers / government issued weapons,
  uniforms and supplies
• Selective Service expanded the draft
• 5 million volunteers after Pearl Harbor
• 10 million more drafted

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Women in the War

• George Marshall Army Chief of Staff formation
  of Womens Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC)

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WAAC

• Oveta Culp Hobby first director

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WAVES Navy Auxiliary
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SPARS Coast Guard
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WAFS Womens Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron
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WASP Womens Air Force Service Pilots
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Life on the Home Front

• Converted to wartime production
• New job opportunities for minorities
• New technology, weapons, and wonder drugs
• Mass media covered war and provided escapist
  entertainment

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Hardships on the Home Front

• Minorities faced discrimination in the military
  and in the workplace
• Japanese-Americans and some Italians and Germans
  placed in internment camps
• Workers had to work extra hard
• Loneliness for loved ones at war
• Inflation and rising prices
• Rationing of scarce goods
• Possibility of losing war

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Equality

• Asa Philip Randolph march on Washington
• Persuaded FDR to issue an executive order against
  discrimination in defense industries

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Mobilization of Scientists

• Office of Scientific Research and Development
• Radar and Sonar
• DDT to fight insects
• Wonder drugs - penicillin

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Manhattan Project

• Program to build an atomic bomb

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Manhattan Project
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Internment of Japanese-Americans

• Nisei Japanese-Americans born in U.S.

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Economic Controls

• Office of Price Administration
• Controlled inflation by freezing prices
• Raised and extended the income tax
• Wage and price controls
• Encouraged the purchase of war bonds

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War Production Board

• Converted industry from peace to war production
• RATIONING establishing fixed allotments of
  goods deemed essential for the military
• Restricted goods had to use ration stamps to
  purchase

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War Oriented Propaganda Movies

• Mission to Moscow
• Good-Bye Mama, Im Off to Yokihama
• The Girl He Left Behind is Still Behind Him