Mobilizing for WWII

1. Selective Service System

It expanded the draft and eventually provided anoter 10 million soldiers to meet the armed forces' needs.

2. Women

Under the Marshall's bill women volunteers would serve in noncombat positions.

3. Minorities

They were restricted to racially segregated neighborhoods and reservations and denied basic citizen rights, some members of these groups questions whether it was their war to fight.

4. Manufacturers

They all started making war materials.

5. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD)

To bring the scientist into the war. To work on spurred improvements in sonar and radar, new technologies for locating submarines underwater. Also in making the atomic bomb.

6 Entertainment Industry

They created the Manhattan Project which became a code for any nationwide research.

7. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

It fought the inflation by freezing prices on most goods. While Congress also raised income tax rates and extended the tax to millions of people who had never paid it before.

8. War Production Board (WPB)

They decided which companies would convert from peacetime to wartime production and allocate raw materials to key industries.

9. Rationing

Households recieved ration books with coupons to be used for buying such scarce goods as meats, shoes, sugar, coffee and gasoline.