1. The United States in WWII
Unit 4 Part 2 Section 1

2. US Expands Armed Forces
After Pearl Harbor, 5 million volunteered.
Selective Service System – expansion of draft – added 10 million more
WAAC (Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps) – May 15, 1942 – 250,000
Minorities
500,000 Mexican Americans
More than 1 million African Americans
33,000 Japanese Americans
25,000 Native Americans

3. Selective Service

4. Life on the Home Front
Factories converted to war production – tanks, planes, boats, bomb parts, shells
By 1944, 18 million laborers worked in war related industries, including 6 million women.
Roosevelt created OSRD (Office of Scientific Research and Development)

5. Life on the Home Front

7. US Government Takes Control
Internment of Japanese Americans (Executive Order 9066)
Nisei – American citizens of Japanese decent made up 2/3 of those interned.

9. A Legacy of bravery 442nd-442nd 18,000 individual awards.
The unit produced twenty-one Medal of Honor recipients
They also claim more than five thousand Purple Hearts
33 Distinguished Service Crosses
560 Silver Stars
22 Legion of Merit Awards
4,000 Bronze Stars
100th and 442nd received the Presidential Distinguished Unit Citation eight times

10. US Government Takes Control
Office of Price Administration
Fought inflation
Rationed food
War Production Board
Rationed fuel and materials
Department of the Treasury
Issued war bonds

11. Wartime Industry