Mobilizing for WWII

1. Selective Service System
Provided 10,000,000 men for the war, which helped the US to fight the war on both fronts.

2. Women
Women worked in many nonviolent positions like nurses, pilots, ambulance drivers, and Radio personnel.

3. Minorities
1.5 million men belonging to minorities joined the army during WWII, and 75k Japanese Americans served as spies as well.

4. Manufacturers
Automobile plants in the country made vehicles and airplanes for the military. Other plants also worked on supplying the military, and shipyards also worked on building boats for the war.

5. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD)
The OSRD made improvements in radar and sonar and also created the atom bomb.

6 Entertainment industry
The entertainment industry such as Disney made pro-war propaganda, and also made war movies in order to gain support for the war.

7. Office of Price Administration (OPA)
The OPA froze prices of domestic goods, raised taxes, and also encouraged buying war bonds to support the war.

8. War Production Board (WPB)
The WPB transformed industries into wartime industries by giving them the supplies and money needed as well as making drives for materials.

9. Rationing
Rationing was a way to allocate goods that were scarce to families equally, however most of the goods were sold through the black market anyways.