The War Effort at Home

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The War Effort at Home

• I. The Armed Forces
• 1. Selective Service
• a. Trained over 16 million men
• -over 1 million minorities
• -segregated
• -over 200,000 women
• -Army, Coast Guard,
• Navy, Air Force

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II. Organizing War Production

• 1. The War of Machines
• a. Tanks, bombs, planes
• Naval vessels
• b. F.D.R.s promise
• Miracle of Production
• -50,000 tanks planes / year
• -bridge of ships
• -Atlantic and Pacific
• -arsenal for Democracy
• c. New technology
• -synthetic rubber
• -radar-air
• -sonar-sea
• -Atomic bomb

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III. Keeping Factories and Farms Going

• 1. Men in Militaryshortage of labor
• a. Increased Union bargaining power
• b. Feelings of Patriotism
• -agreement no strikes
• -work harder, longer hours
• -women minorities step up
• -FDRs Fair Employment Practices
  Committee
• -U.S. production _at_ all-time high
• -Increase farm production
• -open doors to Mexican immigrants
• -run American farms 1942-43

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IV. Paying for the War

• 1. WWII cost 370 billion
• a. 100,000 / minute
• 2. Where do we get this ?
• a. Increased income taxes
• b. Luxury taxes
• c. Borrow from citizens
• -war bonds

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V. Wartime Controls

• 1. Office of Price Administration (OPA)
• a. Fix prices to prevent inflation
• b. Rationing
• -food, metals, etc
• 2. American people sacrificed
• a. Meatless Mondays
• b. Wheatless Wednesdays
• c. Victory gardens

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V. Wartime Controls continued

• 3. Japanese Americans suffer
• a. Nisei
• -accused of sabotage
• b. Intermittent Camps
• -held prisoner until end of WWII