1. Building Military Strength

2. Cost-Plus Contracts Gov’t pays cost + a profit percent
More product = More profit
Cost gov’t a lot BUT war goods made

3. Detroit “Arsenal of Democracy”
Detroit made 1/3 of war goods
4,000 tanks per month

4. Hiding the Lockheed Plant

11. Hiding the Lockheed Plant

12. Rosie the Riveter From Willow Run Airport
Women made up 1/3 or workforce

13. Liberty Ships Used Ford’s Assembly line concept
Pre-built parts assembled at port
Welded instead of Riveted
1 ship ever 17 days

14. War Production Board
Set production priorities and goals

15. Building an Army

16. Draft First peacetime draft – after invasion of Poland
Ranked 19th in World

17. Enlisted After Pearl Harbor - 60,000 sign up/month G.I.
Government Issued (uniforms)

18. Segregation Segregated Army Tuskegee Airmen
Squadron that protected bombers

19. Double “V” Campaign
Victory against Hitler
Victory against Segregation

20. Women 400,000 women in military NO Combat W.A.S.P.s Nurses/Clerical
Pilots that made deliveries

21. African Americans Great migration north to work in plants
Detroit & Chicago
Belle Isle Riot
25 AA 9 W killed

22. Mexican Americans California teen crime rate rose
Zoot Suits vs Victory Suit

23. Japanese Americans West coast angry at Japanese Relocation Camps
FDR forced Jap. Into camps
Fear of spies/attacks
Supreme Court Approved
military security
Reagan later apologized

24. Rationing
Stamps used to buy food & goods
Gas = 35 mph
1 book / month

25. Victory Gardens Plant a garden to save food
Donate materials to the war
Rubber, tin, aluminum, oil, fat
Exchange bacon grease for coupons

26. Liberty Bonds Gov’t spent $300 billion
E Bonds: $ $25 in ten years
Citizens: $50 billion
Companies: $150 billion

27. Wage & Price Controls Price & wage freezes
Post-war prices rose ½ as much as WWI
Minimized strikes