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Increased Gov’t Control
National War Labor Board- allowed negotiation over benefits, but no strikes allowed
Office of Price Administration- regulated civilian life (fought inflation, rationed food, etc)
War Production Board- Manage war industries: rationed fuel and other vital war supplies
Office of War Mobilization- set production priorities Dept. of Treasury- Financing the war
Increased income tax Sold war bonds
Office of Scientific Research and Development-sonar, penicillin, atom bomb
People at Home
Women- 6 million of 18 million factory workers were women 200,000 served in noncombatant roles WAC- Women’s Auxillary Corp WASP- Women’s Airforce Service Pilots
General Douglas MacArthur caled the WACs “my best soldiers,” adding that they worked harder, complained less, and were better disciplined than the men.
War involvement helped advance the position of women in society
African Americans
2nd Great Migration? African-Americans moved north for jobs (1.5
million!) 1 million served in armed forces, segregated units Double V Slogan-V for Victory at war, V for Victory
for Equality! 1943 Detroit and NYC Riots against African
American workers
Mexican Americans
Worked in defense industries 300,000 served in armed forces Mexico and America’s governments made
immigration deals-few restrictions. Mexican migrant workers came North to work.
• led to riots b/w White sailors against Mexican Americans in LA, known as Zoot Suit Riots
Native Americans
Code Talkers 25,000 served- changed landscape of
reservations sent messages to Pacific theatre in Navajo-a
complex, unwritten language-undecipherable 540 Navajo actively participated in code talking Took part in every offensive US launched in
Pacific from 1942-1945 “Were it not for the Navajo code talkers, we would
never have been able to take Iwo Jima”-Major Howard Connor, 5th Marine Division
Japanese-American Internment, 1942 Executive Order 9066: Anyone who looked lived in
California/Oregon/Washington who looked East Asian was rounded up into camps.
110,000 people were relocated, the majority of them born in America (some had even served in the army)
1988 Legislation
Japanese American Reparation Act Signed by Reagan $20,000 given to each surviving detainee 1990 President Bush Sr. signed a formal
apology to Japanese Americans
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