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Mobilizing for Defense

Mobilizing for Defense. Selective Service System. Drafted 10 million soldiers. Women. Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps Formed to meet additional labor needs Only worked in non-combat positions 6 million new women workers Factory workers Rosie the Riveter. Minorities.

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Mobilizing for Defense

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  1. Mobilizing for Defense

  2. Selective Service System • Drafted 10 million soldiers

  3. Women • Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps • Formed to meet additional labor needs • Only worked in non-combat positions • 6 million new women workers • Factory workers • Rosie the Riveter

  4. Minorities • The following groups served in numbers larger than the army had seen before • Mexican Americans • African Americans • Native Americans • Asian Americans • Recruiting and Discrimination • Bases were racially segregated • Minorities restricted from most combat duties • Japanese serve as interpreters

  5. Manufacturers • Industrial Response • Factories converted to war production • Shipyards function at record speed • Women replaced men as labor source • Minorities call for equal rights in the work place • FDR issued executive order for equality

  6. Office of Scientific Research and Development • Improved use of radar and sonar • Manhattan Project researched atomic weapons

  7. Office of Price Administration • Office of Price Administration • Froze prices to prevent inflation • Rationed Food

  8. War Production Board • War Production Board • Allocated raw materials • Organized collection drives

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