Transcript Critical Thinking 15.2

Critical Thinking 17.1
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What was the Selective Service System and how did it help the US meet manpower
needs?
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Set up to expand the draft and brought in 10 million additional soldiers
What contributions did women and minorities make to the military effort?
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Through the Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps, women volunteered to serve in
noncombat positions. Despite discrimination and racial segregation, minorities
enlisted and served in noncombat roles
How did American industry contribute to the war effort?
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Production of consumer products was shifted towards military weapons and
supplies
How did the war create new job opportunities for women and minorities?
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As white males were drafted, job oppurtunities opened up for women and minorities
How did scientists help the war effort?
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Office of Scientific Research and Development improved on radar and sonar,
pesticides, penicillin, and atomic bomb
How did the mass media contribute to the war effort
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Produced propaganda that supported the Allies and attacked the Axis
How did the Federal gov’t act to control the economy?
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Office of Price Administration froze prices to stop inflation, raised taxes,
encouraged ppl to buy bonds. War Production Board oversaw which companies
would convert from consumer production to military production
How did gov’t actions affect everyday life?
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Rationing limited the amount of goods that people bought and used.
Mobilizing for Defense
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Selective Service System
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Instituted the draft, provided the country w/ 10 million soldiers
Women & Minorities
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Thousands served in WAAC, 6 million worked in war industries; thousands of minorities
enlisted in the armed forces
Manufacturers
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Converted factories to production of war goods; built and expanded shipyards and defense
plants
A. Philip Randolph
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Organized march on Washington that forced Roosevelt to issue an executive order calling
on employers and labor unions in defense industry to stop discrimination
Office of Scientific Research and Development
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Spurred improvements in radar and sonar, encouraged use of pesticides to fight insects,
pushed development of “miracle drugs” that saved lives, developed atomic bomb
Entertainment industry
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Produced war-oriented propaganda films & created opportunities to escape from the grim
realities of war for a few hours
Office of Price Administration & War Production Board
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Fought inflation by freezing prices & set up system for rationing scarce goods; oversaw
conversion from peacetime to wartime production, allocated raw materials to key industries
and organized nationwide scrap drives
Rationing
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Reduced consumption of energy, goods, and supplies deemed essential for the military
Mobilizing for Defense
• In groups of 2 use info from notes/book to
answer the following questions about how each
of the following contributed to the war effort
1. Selective Service System
2. Women & Minorities
3. Manufacturers
4. A. Philip Randolph
5. Office of Scientific Research and Development
6. Entertainment industry
7. Office of Price Administration & War Production
Board
8. Rationing
Propaganda Cartoons
• While watching these cartoons, look for
the following:
– Asking for support for the war
– Supporting the war effort
– Stereotypes
– Racism
US Wartime Propaganda
• Create a propaganda illustration that will
encourage Americans to support the war
effort based on one of the following:
– Enlisting
• Women or minorities
– Rationing
• Food, consumer products, energy
– Converting factories to wartime production
– Buying war bonds
• Make sure to play on peoples fears!