Mobilizing for WWII.

1. Selective Service System
The Selective service system expanded the draft to make it so more young men were able to go to war and engage in combat. The act was to get more young men to get into the war and fight for the army.

2. Women
Marshall pushed for women and the Woman's Auxiliary Army Corp was invented. Women could become things like nurses and cooks where they were not involved in combat, women were not alloud to engage in combat with the opposing forces but they were alloud to help in the war with positions that did not involve fighting.

3. Minorities
Most of the minorities in the United states were allowed to fight in the military and in the army, except they were always segregated against. Although they were in the military, they were in different units with a much lower ranking and they were always commanded by a white general. Iit didn't matter that they were part of the U.S. army, they were black and the white soldiers saw them as unequal.

4. Manufacturers
Many manufacturers stopped what they normally manufactured and started to manufacture war materials. They would make something along the lines they normally would, just war style. For example, a beadspread manyfacturerer made mosquito netting.


5. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD)
The OSRD was responsible for the improvements in all of the technology, for example, improvements in radar and sonar, improvements in locating submarines, and encouraged the use of pesticides which made U.S. soldiers free of body lice.
6 Entertainment industry
Hollywood created waroritented propaganda films that made a lot of people want to join the war effort and take part in the fighting because it was all after the attack on pearl harbor.

7. Office of Price Administration (OPA)
The OPA fought inflation and froze the prices on most goods to make them the same and make them fair, the OPA also set up a rationing system. The government encouraged the Americans to use their extra money to buy war bongs.

8. War Production Board (WPB)
The WPB decided what companies were to convert from peacetime to wartime production and allocated raw materials to key materials. The WPB also held drives to collect things like paper and tin cans that could be recycled and then used in the war.

9. Rationing
Rationing was a system that made people use less of materials and give out coupons to buy scarce goods like meat, shoes, sugar, gasoline, and coffee. Most Americans were happy to ration because it was their way of contributing to the war and it was the civilian part to help the military and give back to the country.