Mobilizing for WWII

1. Selective Service System-pprovided ten million soldiers for the armed forces.

2. Women-Women joined the war effort because the need was great, the force was called the Woman's Auxiliary Army Corp.

3. Minorities-There was discrimination against minorities, but they joined the war effort as well.

4. Manufacturers-Many manufacturers started building machines or technologies meant solely for the purpose of war. Automobile factories began building tanks, or planes.

5. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD)-They researched ways to improve war technologies and life for the soldiers. They created many new drugs.

6 Entertainment industry-They made a lot of propganda to encourage people to join the war effort.

7. Office of Price Administration (OPA)-fought inflation, but freezing the price of goods, taxes were raised and rationed food.

8. War Production Board (WPB)-rationed food and materials so that the rest could go to the soldiers

9. Rationing-apportioned amounts of goods so that what had been set aside could be given to soldiers.