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After Pearl Harbor many young Americans volunteered for the opportunity to be a hero. Despite getting 5 million volunteers the U.S. didn't have enough soldiers to fight on two fronts.

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Anybody over the age of 21 and younger than 31 were required to register for a draft. 10 million men were drafted.

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250,000 women served in military branches. They played noncombat roles to support the other military branches. They were the first women to serve roles other than nurses.

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Minority Groups and their Military Service

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Minority Groups and their Military Service

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Despite discrimination in the military, more than 300,000 Mexican Americans joined the armed forces. About one million African Americans also served in the military. African- American soldiers lived and worked in segregated units and were limited mostly to noncombat roles. After much protest, African Americans did finally see combat beginning in April 1943. About 33,000 Japanese Americans and 13,000 Chinese Americans also joined. Several thousand Japanese served as spies and interpreters.

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After the draft there was fear that the nation did not enough workers to meet both its military and industrial needs. Luckily they were wrong. By 1944 nearly 18 million workers were laboring in war industries. More than 6 million of them were women. Women proved they could do just as good and if not better then men. And they got only about 60 percent as men doing the same job.

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As the risk of inflation increasing FDR created the OPA to fight back. The OPA fought inflation by freezing prices, wages, and rent.  They also rationed foods such as meat, butter, cheese, vegetables, sugar, and coffee

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Households received ration books with coupons to be used for buying such scarce goods as meat, shoes, sugar, coffee, and gasoline. Americans saw rationing as a personal contribution to the war effort. Some cheated the system by hoarding scarce goods or by purchasing them through "black market," where rationed items good be bought illegally without coupons at inflated prices.

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The Department of Treasury issued War Bonds to raise money for the war effort and to fight inflation. This kept inflation below 30 percent throughout the duration of the war. During World War I inflation in the U.S. was double that of World War II.

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Detroit had become known as the "Arsenal of Democracy" after one of FDR's famous fireside chats. In his speech on December 29, 1940, Roosevelt made a call to arm and support the Allied powers by providing weapons, planes, trucks and tanks.

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The WPB decided which companies would convert from peacetime to wartime production and allocated raw materials to key industries. They also organized drives to collect scrap iron, rags, paper and cooking fat to be recycled into war goods.

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The American public was in the dark in regards to what was going on overseas. In an attempt to inform citizens and draw more interest to the war President Franklin D. Roosevelt promulgated the OWI on June 13, 1942, by Executive Order 9182. Through radio broadcasts, newspapers, posters, photographs, films and other forms of media, the OWI was the connection between the battlefront and civilian communities.

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Japanese Americans were forcefully relocated and incarcerated into internment camps on the Pacific Coast to isolate them during the war in the Pacific. Around 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were moved into such camps.