1 / 10

The United States Gets Ready For War

The United States Gets Ready For War. Step #1 – Expanding Military. Selective Service Act to draft GI’s (Government Issue, or soldiers) Age range: 18-45 Women become involved: WAAC , or the Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps. Goal-do all things in military except direct combat

santa
Download Presentation

The United States Gets Ready For War

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. The United States Gets Ready For War

  2. Step #1 – Expanding Military • Selective Service Act to draft GI’s (Government Issue, or soldiers) • Age range: 18-45 • Women become involved: WAAC, or the Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps. Goal-do all things in military except direct combat • Women also take many jobs from those going to war

  3. Rosie the Riveter

  4. One Hitch - Discrimination • African Americans and others face dilemma = Why fight? • A. Philip Randolph, Civil Rights Leader, fights for rights • Result=FDR calls for no discrimination by businesses and unions

  5. Step #2 – Create Programs for War • OPA, or the Office of Price Administration. Goal: Freezing wages, etc. and rationed foods such as meat, sugar, etc. • Rationing – a fixed portion of something given to people, while helping the military

  6. War Production Board – Rationed materials for the war effort, such as gas, oil, metals, rubber, etc.

  7. War Bonds issued for people to buy to support the war effort • Many other programs • During WW2, 41% of all production in the USA was for the war

  8. Step #3 - Propaganda • Movies, etc. Everything in society

  9. Step #4 – Future Preparation • Bring scientists in to try and advance the cause • Ex. Manhattan Project – Goal to develop the atomic bomb as quickly as possible Albert Einstein accepting U.S. citizenship in 1940

More Related