Transcript Mobilizing for War - Pioneer Central Schools / Overview

Mobilizing for War
The following slides will allow you to answer the questions on pg. 9.
Call of Duty
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With the sudden strike
on Pearl Harbor the
United States needed
to build up its armed
forces fast.
Millions of men
volunteered for
service.
Millions more were
drafted under the
Selective Service Act
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Wartime Production
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The effort to defeat the
Axis powers took more
than just soldiers.
American forces
needed tanks, planes,
weapons, parachutes
and other supplies.
Wartime Production
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Under the War
Production Board
factories churned out
supplies around the
clock.
By 1945 the U.S. had
produced 300,000 planes
and 75,000 ships.
The U.S. supplied 60%
of Allied ammunition.
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End of the Great Depression
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With so many factories
in need of workers the
Great Depression
ended.
The GNP (Gross
National Product: sum
of all things produced
in the United States)
more than doubled
between 1939 and
1945.
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Opportunities for Women
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The number of women
in the workplace would
eventually reach 19
million.
Nearly 30% of the
labor force.
“Rosie the Riveter”
became a national
icon.
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Opportunities for Minorities
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Nearly 1 million African
Americans worked in the
defense industry.
46,000 Native Americans
left their reservations to
work in the nation’s war
industries.
Tens of thousands of
Mexican and Hispanic
Americans filled the farm
labor shortage.
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Rationing
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Because the armed forces
needed so many supplies
some items became scarce.
As a result of the huge need
for steel and rubber for the
weapons of war the auto
industry stopped making cars
between 1942-1945.
To deal with the shortages of
goods the U.S. government
used Rationing. Rationing is
when the government places
a limit on the number or
amount of an item some one
can purchase.
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Images of World War II
The next several slides will allow
you to answer the questions on
pg. 10.
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