World War II Mobilizing for Defense

1. World War II Mobilizing for Defense

2. Selective Service System Required men to register for military service. Will raise an additional 10 million men during World War II.

3. War Production Board The WPB decided which companies would convert from peacetime to wartime production and allocated raw materials to key industries War Production Video

5. Office of Price Administration Fought inflation by freezing wages, prices, and rents.

6. Rationing The OPA rationed foods such as meat, butter, cheese, sugar, vegetables, and coffee.

7. Victory Gardens

8. Propaganda Poster Video

9. War Bonds The Department of Treasury issued war bonds to raise money for the war effort and to fight inflation. Celebrity War Bond Tour Newsreel

11. Office of Scientific Research and Development The OSRD spurred improvements in radar and sonar, pesticides like DDT, miracle drugs such as penicillin and the atomic bomb.

12. Women During WWII, women were actively recruited into what had been non- traditional work for women, including such jobs as welding, machinist, construction, and bus and truck driving. The image of “Rosie the Riveter” was used to encourage women to join the workforce. Women in the War Video “Rosie the Riveter”

13. Entertainment Industry In addition to promoting war bonds, Hollywood churned out war- oriented propaganda films like Hitler, Beast of Berlin. Clark Gable and Carole Lombard

14. Internment of Japanese Americans On Feb. 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed an executive order Requiring removal of people of Japanese ancestry from California And parts of Washington, Oregon, and Arizona to internment camps. In the following weeks, the army will round up some 110,000 Japanese Americans.