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The war needed lots of supplies and people in the country were getting less supplies and prices shot upwards. Roosevelt created the Office of Price Administration (OPA). The OPA fought inflation by freezing prices and raised income taxes, which causes less goods and less money to spend.

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After the bombing of pearl harbor the U.S needed troops bad and even though 5 million were already in the army. The service made Americans above the age of 18  to enter the draft and they chose 10 million people to help out in war. They were sent across to bases for 8 weeks of training

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During the war many minorities especially African Americans, Natives, and Mexicans were segregated and didn't have the basic human rights. They were thinking that since they don't have rights they shouldn't have to fight for a country that doesn't fight for their rights. Even though this was going on 300,000 Mexicans joined and around 1 million African Americans joined. There was still segregation in the army they had their own camps and own training.

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U.S needed all the help they could get, so George Marshall pushed for the women army corps. In his eyes there were jobs women could do better than men. The women would get salary and benefits. They worked as nurses, drivers, pilots, engineers basically anything that was not combat.

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The OPA also set up a Rationing method for the military needs. Each home was sent a rationing book and coupons to buy scarce things like meat, shoes, sugar, and gas. Gas rationing was really hard on people who lived in western, where driving was the only way to get around. Some people cheated it by hoarding goods or got them on the Black Market

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The Department of Treasury issued war bonds to help raise money for the war. 85 million Americans bought it during WW2 which kept inflation underneath 30% and raised 125 million dollars.

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This was a phrase used by FDR to describe the US since we were sending support to the nations fighting the Axis powers. He also said the US must become "the great arsenal of democracy"  to fight dictatorship.

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The board was responsible for rationing materials for the war like fuel, oil, metals, rubber, and plastic. They would decided which companies convert from peacetime to war time production. They also had drives where they would go across America asking everyone for junk. During one drive in Chicago kids alone collected 36 million pounds of old paper. All of these resources were used in the war to help win

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The OWI was created after Pearl Harbor it was used for propaganda to get U.S citizens to hate Nazi's and Japanese. They made films like Mission to Moscow to glorify our new ally in the soviet union and films to show how bad nazis were

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After the bombing of pearl harbor Japanese Americans faced a lot of discrimination. Japanese families were stripped of their houses, businesses, and properties. They were sent to camps that were little sheds with no bathroom or furniture. They were surrounded by barbed wire and guns pointed at them, they had their own community in there. They all had jobs and had school but it was like a prison.