2. Ways the Government Took Control of the Country

3. Agencies & Laws What the Agencies Did National War Labor Board
Limited wage increases.
Kept unions stable
Office of Price Administration
Fought inflation by freezing wages, prices and rents.
Rationed foods such as meat, butter, cheese, vegetables, sugar and coffee.
War Production Board
Rationed fuel and materials vital to the war effort, such as gasoline, heating oil, metals, rubber and plastics.
Department of the Treasury
Issued war bonds to raise money for the war effort and to fight inflation.
Revenue Act of 1942
Raised personal income taxes.
Added lower and middle income Americans to the income-tax rolls.
Smith-Connally Labor Disputes Act
Limited the right to strike in industries crucial to the war effort.
Gave the president power to take over striking plants.

4. Production Miracle Most factories were retooled to war production.
Production soared – aircraft production went from 5,000 in to 100,000 in 1944.
Many worried that America did not have enough people to serve in the military and meet production needs for the war. They were wrong, by there were 18 million workers laboring in war industries, three times as many as in 1941.

6. Role of Women

8. Rosie the Riveter All the day long, Whether rain or shine,
She’s a part of the assembly line.
She’s making history,
Working for victory,
Rosie the Riveter.
Keeps a sharp lookout for sabotage,
Sitting up there on the fuselage.
That little girl will do more than a male will do.
Rosie’s got a boyfriend, Charlie.
Charlie, he’s a Marine.
Rosie is protecting Charlie,
Working overtime on the riveting machine.
When they gave her a production “E”,
She was proud as should could be.
There’s something true about,
Red, white and blue about,

16. Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC)
Allowed women to serve in non-combatant positions.
Gave women an official status in the military..
Worked as nurses, ambulance drivers, radio operators, electricians, and pilots – nearly every duty not involving direct combat.

18. Homeland Security

21. Radio – America’s Lifeline

22. Things that were created in the 1940s…
M&Ms (1940) Jeep (1940) Cheerios (1941) Wonder Woman (1941) Seventeen Magazine (1944) Frozen Orange Juice (1945) Tupperware (1945) Bikini (1946) Slinky (1946) Silly Putty (1949) Scrabble (1949) Legos (1949)

23. A Night on the Town… Prices for the “best seat in the house” in 1945.
Ice Show $1.00
Broadway Show $3.00
Concert in Carnegie Hall $3.60
Three-course dinner $2.50

24. A Night at the Movies Average price of movie ticket/total moviegoers.
/3.90 Million
/4.16 Million
/4.68 Million
/3.12 Million
/1.6 Million

25. Rationing

26. What is Rationing?
Rationing – fixed allotments of goods deemed essential for the military.
Households received ration books with coupons to be used for buying meat, shoes, sugar, coffee, and gasoline.

27. Rationing Recipes Chicken Gelatin 2575 Calories 1 3- to 4-lb. Chicken
3 hard-cooked eggs
1 lb. cold cooked tongue
Celery-salt
1 tablespoonful granulated gelatin
2 tablespoonfuls cold water
1 pint clear brown stock
Roast the chicken. When cold slice and lay in a mold with alternate layers of sliced tongue and occasional slices of hard-cooked eggs; season with celery-salt. Soak gelatin in cold water five minutes and dissolve in boiling stock. Pour it over the meat. Let stand several hours in a refrigerator before unmolding. This recipe will serve at least eight persons.
Miss Estelle Claeys, 5107 Page Bldg., St. Louis, Mo.

28. Ration Card

33. Victory Gardens
Many people grew their own food to help with the war effort and subsidize the rations.
Carrots and potatoes are easily grown in your garden and most people did this to avoid going without. The Ministry of Food also told the public that carrots would help you see in the dark, which of course is useful in the blackouts!

34. Rationing Menu One Week's Rations Breakfast Luncheon Dinner
Blackberries
Creamed Dried Beef
Whole-Wheat Bread Toast
Coffee
Luncheon
Luncheon Tomatoes
Hot Baking-Powder Biscuit
Yale Blueberry Cake
Iced Tea
Dinner
Chicken Gelatin
Mashed Potatoes Green Corn
Cucumber and Lettuce Salad
Cold Fruit Pudding
One Week's Rations

37. Recycling for the War
Many things were recycled and used in war production; rubber, metal (of every type), paper etc…