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25-1 Mobilization on the home front

25-1 Mobilization on the home front. Pgs. 730-737. Americans Join the War Effort. Selective Service and the GI After Pearl Harbor many volunteers GI’s (Government Issued) Women in the Military WAAC – Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps

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25-1 Mobilization on the home front

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  1. 25-1 Mobilization on the home front Pgs. 730-737

  2. Americans Join the War Effort • Selective Service and the GI • After Pearl Harbor many volunteers • GI’s (Government Issued) • Women in the Military • WAAC – Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps • Women who volunteered would not receive the same rank, pay, or benefits as men doing the same jobs, nor could they expect to make a career. • 250,000 women served.

  3. Americans Join the War Effort • Minorities in the Armed Services • African Americans • More than 1 million served (segregated) • Mexican Americans • 500,000 served • Asian Americans • 13,000 Chinese and 33,000 Japanese • Served as spies • Native Americans • 25,000 served • Navajo Code • Unwritten language that can only be deciphered by people who are around it.

  4. Life on the Homefront • The Industrial Response • Factories converted to war production • Tanks, ships, etc. • Labor’s Contribution • 18 million workers • 6 million were women • 2 million minorities • Mobilization of Scientists • Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) – brought science into the war • Penicillin, pesticides, atomic bomb (Einstein, Manhattan Project)

  5. Life on the Homefront • Changes in Entertainment • Movies served as propaganda to gain support for the war.

  6. The Federal Government Takes Control • Internment of Japanese Americans • War department called for the mass evacuation of all Japanese Americans from Hawaii. • Internment (confinement) of 1,444 Japanese Americans • February 19, 1942 President signed an order requiring the removal of people of Japanese ancestry from California and parts of Washington, Oregon, and Arizona. • Necessary for national security. • Nisei – American citizens • 110,000 Japanese rounded up and put into camps.

  7. The Federal Government Takes Control • Economic Controls • Didn’t want inflation to occur like after WWI • Office of Price Administration (OPA) – froze prices on most goods and set up rationing of certain goods • Pushed for war bonds • Increased taxes • War Production Board (WPB) – decided which companies would convert from peacetime to wartime production and allocated raw materials to key industries, organized drives to collect scrap iron, tin cans, paper, rags, and cooking fat for war goods

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