Mobilizing for WWII

1. Selective Service System
The Selective Service System provided 10 million men for the war. This helped the U.S be able to fight the war on both fronts.
2. Women
Women did many noncombat positions such as nurses, ambulance drivers, radio operators, electricians, and pilots.
3. Minorities
Around a million and a half men who belonged to minorities joined the army during WWII, and around 75 thousand Japanese American's served as spies in the Pacific.
4. Manufacturers
The automobile plants in the country made vehicles and airplanes for the military. Other factories also made supplies for the military. Shipyards made war boats as well.
5. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD)
The OSRD made many improvements in radar and sonar, and most importantly, the Atomic Bomb.
6 Entertainment industry
The entertainment industry made propaganda, and other war movies in order to gain support for the war movement.
7. Office of Price Administration (OPA)
The OPA froze the froze prices domestic goods, raised taxes, and encouraged the buying of war bonds and rationing.
8. War Production Board (WPB)
The WPB transformed the peacetime industries into wartime industries by giving them supplies and money as well as creating drives for materials.
9. Rationing
Rationing was a way to allot goods that were scarce fairly to civilian families, however many of theses goods were sold on the black market anyway.