1. The United States Gears Up Good Bad

2. Effects of the Great Depression are still present in 1941.
America beings mobilizing for war.
Factories run 24/7
Mass production of war materials.
Factories can produce a 441 ft ship in just 4 days.

3. Unemployment falls to 1 percent!!!!
War Production Board (WPB) oversees factories.
Farming picks up as Allies need food.
Women begin to work in factories

4. Selective Training and Service Act of 1940.
First peacetime draft in U.S. history.
Ages 21-35
War Bonds
Rationing
Gasoline
Rubber
Shoes
Foods

5. Black workers received lower pay than did white workers
A. Philip Randolph – African American leader began a march in Washington D.C. for equality
Tuskegee Airmen were African American pilots who flew thousands of successful combat missions

6. Faced discrimination
Zoot suit riots – group of sailors attacked Mexican Americans

7. Not all war efforts were positive.
Executive Order 9066
Containment of Japanese Americans out of fear and suspicion.
115,000 placed in camps. Many were American born.