Read Chapter 25-1: Mobilizing for War and note how each of the following contributed to that effort.
1. Selective Service System: expanded the draft and eventually provided another 10 million soldiers to meet the armed forces' needs.
2. Women: women volunteers would serve in noncombat positions. They worked as nurses, ambulance drivers, radio operators, electricians, and pilots. Every duty not involving direct combat.
3. Minorities: the war created new dilemmas. They served in the military.
4. Manufacturers: February 1942, newspapers reported the end of automobile production. Within weeks of the shutdown, the nations automobile plants had been retooled to produce tanks, planes, boats, and command cars. Across the nation, factories were converted to war production.
5. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD): spurred improvement in radar and sonar, new technologies for locating submarines underwater. Encouraged the use of pesticides to fight off insects, also pushed the development of "miracle drugs" that saved countless lives on and off the battlefield.
6 Entertainment industry:
7. Office of Price Administration (OPA)
8. War Production Board (WPB)
9. Rationing
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