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During the war volunteers for the military increased rapidly. In the year 1945 the volunteers increased to 12 million. That was up from 1939 when only 300 thousand people volunteered.

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In September of 1940 the U.S. passed the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940. The Act made it mandatory for all men age 21 to 45 register to be drafted. If you were drafted you were required to serve at least one year in armed forces. By the end of the war 50 million people registered and 10 million were drafted.

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During the war about 350 thousand women were serving in the war either in other countries of in the United States. Because men were enlisting in the war there were many holes to fill in the industrial labor. This caused the U.S. workforce for women to increase from 27 percent to 37 percent.

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Minority groups and their military service

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Minority groups and their military service

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During the war the amount of minorities enlisting in the military grew drastically. Even though every minority was drafted and payed equal there was still discrimination and segregation.

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Before the War the percent of women industrial workers was at 1 percent. During the war that number grew to 65 percent because of all the men that were leaving for the war. A big way they got women to help with industrial work was by the Rosie The Riveter campaign.

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The office of Price Administration also known as OPA was put in place in 1941. The purpose o the OPA was to try and keep prices from rising during the war.

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Rationing was a way for the government to control how much a family or person could get of certain consumer good. They had to do this because of all the resources that had to go to the war efforts.

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War bonds were a way the government found to fund the war. The was bonds work was you would buy a bond for a certain amount and then later on the government would pay you back with a little bit of interest.

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The phrase "Arsenal of Democracy" came from a speech by Franklin D. Roosevelt. In the speech he spoke of how the U.S. was going to help the allied forces by providing resources. The phrase is referring to the United States and how it is the primary means of material for the allies.

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The War Production Board or WPD was and executive order by Franklin D. Roosevelt. The reason for the WPD was to oversee the production of fuel and material.

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The Office of War Information was a centralized way of getting information the American public. The Office of War Information was a way for the government to promote things like war bonds, industrial jobs and recruitment.

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During the war the U.S. government took about 120 thousand Japanese Americans away from the west coast and put them in concentration camps. The reason for this was the Pearl Harbor bombing and they thought that some Japanese Americans could be working with Japan to do something even worse.