2. Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, 1937 – Isolationistic influence Neutrality Act of 1936 – “Cash and Carry” Selective service act of October1940 – Peacetime draft – Conscientious Objection Lend-Lease Act 1941 – Economic declaration of war on Germany } Terms and Forms of Aid to Allied powers Robyn Weiner

3. Office of War Information (OWI) 1942 – organized the distribution of war information to the public to help create means of understanding the war War Production Board (WPB) 1942 – Oversaw industrial transformation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eoE12ywD zA&feature=related

4. Office of War and Mobilization 1942 – supervised efforts to distribute proper materials for converted industries, regulated production of civilian goods, established production contracts, negotiate organized labor, and controlled inflation Woman’s Army Corps (WAC) 1943 – provided secretarial workers, truck drivers, instructors, and lab technicians

5. War Bonds are technically a personal loan to the US government They are used to remove money from circulation and in turn reduce inflation Offered in denominations $25 up to $10000, with limitations Sold at 75% face value Erik Mahal

6. First called defense bonds until December 7 1941 Many famous celebrities of the time were contracted by the government to sell War Bonds The celebrity campaign netted over $838,540,000 worth of bonds Was sold to FDR by Henry Morgenthau

7. Over 85 million citizens purchased war bonds Totaling over 185.7 billion dollars Sports teams events held special events News Broadcasts (Kate Smith) Civilian D-day when planes dropped posters Norman Rockwell provided original art as advertising

8. Propaganda was believed at first to be useless by US government Robert E Sherwood and the Foreign Information Service determined that America needed to fight just as much with words Office of War Information than took over the Propaganda ideas Promoted US involvement, Military Enrollment, and War Bonds Sales

9. John Houseman was the first producer of international US propaganda Very theatrical and intense until invasion of North Africa in 1942 Tone was than calm news reporting rather than over the top Took more sobering stand point rather than alluding to enemy bestiality Germans maintained alluding method and back fired when war turned

10. Cheapest and easiest media to produce Leaned more towards facts rather than imaginative Norman Rockwell, Ben Shahn and other famous artists of the time were contracted the government for their unique art styles War Bond Posters were most abundent

12. Posters glamorized war As well as the importance of the non- traditional jobs for women With 10 million men at war there was no way we would be able to win the war with out the help of women Some posters use economic prosperity to get women into the work force Niger Lively

13. In 1944 when the war was at its highest over 19 million women was employed in the united state more than ever They didn’t allow women in combat, so women took the jobs that men did that put them on the field of combat and some times it came to them They used women pilots to support the air fair but they didn’t get recognized until the 1970s

14. Women that served in the American military in world war 2: Army - 140,000 Navy - 100,000 Marines - 23,000 Coast Guard - 13,000 Air Force - 1,000 Army and Navy Nurse Corps - 74,000

15. About 1 million African Americans served in the war Half served in Europe A large number faced racial discrimination Before the war the military maintain a segregated force They where classified as unfit for combat and wasn’t allowed on the front line In 1941 that all change Pressure from African American civil rights leaders persuaded the government to set up all black combat units It was and experiment to see if African Americans can perform task on the same level as whites

16. 84 Woodrow Crockett was a part of that He was a Tuskegee airman, the first group of blacks to be trained by the air force He flew 149 missions in 1944-1945 When they reached 200 missions the never lost a bomber to a enemy Bill De Shields: he is a historian and the founder of the black military history institute of America He say the symbol of black participation was the “ double v”. A victory of the enemy and a victory at home. By the time the Vietnam war came in the 60s and 70s African Americans did it all

17. Two units from New Mexico were activated and dispatched to Philippine islands After Japan had attacked the pearl harbor and forced America into war Their forces attacked America’s position in the Philippines Fight with the Filipinos the made a great stand against the Japanese for three month It was said that they were the last ones to get down

18. War contributed to increased prices and shortages in food, housing, gas, clothing, transportation – Standard of living decreased as a result – Increases in salary due to jobs created by the war did not improve purchasing power of most citizens Many Americans were unhappy that they had to sacrifice so much – Wealthy lived luxuriously on products purchased on the newly created black market Jamie Campbell

19. Wartime rationing: Sugar: May 1942 Coffee November: 1942 Canned Goods: March 1, 1943 (Meat and butter later that month) – Meat: 28oz. per person per week – Butter: 4oz. per person per week Gasoline Rationing (May 1941): Stickers distributed based on use of the vehicle (i.e. for workers commute, on the job use, pleasure, and emergency vehicles) – Labled “A” through “E” to indicate usage and amount of gasoline allowed for purchase Led to suspicion and scandal

20. April 1943: the government declares 27 million workers "essential", forbidding them to leave their jobs Many union members who committed to a no- strike pledge held protests Protests concerned workers’ safety and working conditions Many were “walkouts”