# data[].attributes.body
Office of Price Administration
The OPA fought inflation by freezing prices on most goods.

# data[].attributes.body
The Women's Auxiliary Army Crops were greatly needed in the military's work force and was pushed by the Army Chief of Staff General George Marshal. Women volunteers would serve in noncombat positions. With some of congress disagreeing with this bill, ultimately the bill one and became law on May 15, 1942. Even though the WAAC had an official status and was given salary, most of the benefits went for the male soldiers.

# data[].attributes.headline
Office of Scientific Research and Development

# data[].attributes.subject
Office of Scientific Research and Development

# data[].attributes.body
In 1941, Roosevelt creates the ORSD, so to bring scientists into war efforts. The ORSD made major improvements in radars and sonars, technology to sense and locate anything underwater, like submarines. Also made advancements in the DDT to fight off lice and other small insects. They made 🤬 and medicines that helps save countless lives. The OSRD major accomplishment was the atomic bomb, a bomb that release enormous amount of energy.

# data[].attributes.body
It rationed fuel and materials vital to the war effort, such as
gasoline, heating oil, metals, rubber, and plastics

# data[].attributes.headline
president and founder of the brotherhood of sleeping car porters

# data[].attributes.subject
president and founder of the brotherhood of sleeping car porters

# data[].attributes.body
he was the nations more respected African American labor leader

Randolph called on every African Americans to come to the capital so that they can march under the banner

Roosevelt was stunned when Randolph told him that he was bringing one hundred thousand African Americans

In the end it was Roosevelt who backed down not Randolph but his promise was to cancel the march

The president issued an executive order calling on employers and labor unions.

# data[].attributes.headline
Within weeks of the shutdown in production, the nation’s automobile plants had been retooled to produce tanks, planes, boats, and command cars. They were not alone. Across the nation, factories were quickly converted to war production.

# data[].attributes.subject
Within weeks of the shutdown in production, the nation’s automobile plants had been retooled to produce tanks, planes, boats, and command cars. They were not alone. Across the nation, factories were quickly converted to war production.

# data[].attributes.body
Fought inflation by freezing wages, prices, and rents.
Rationed foods, such as meat, butter, cheese, vegetables, sugar,
and coffee.

# data[].attributes.headline
This is a graph representing how many ships and aircraft were made during WW2

# data[].attributes.subject
This is a graph representing how many ships and aircraft were made during WW2

# data[].attributes.headline
After Pearl Harbor, eager youngAmericans jammed recruiting offices.Even the 5 million who volunteered for military service, however,were not enough to face the challengeof an all-out war on two globalfronts—Europe and the Pacific.

# data[].attributes.subject
After Pearl Harbor, eager youngAmericans jammed recruiting offices.Even the 5 million who volunteered for military service, however,were not enough to face the challengeof an all-out war on two globalfronts—Europe and the Pacific.

# data[].attributes.body
T he volunteers and draftees reported to military bases around the
country for eight weeks of basic training. In this short period, sea-
soned sergeants did their best to turn raw recruits into disciplined, battle-ready GIs.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
FDR Signs Military Draft Act - 1940  | Today in History | 16 Sept 16

# data[].attributes.body
The WPB decided which companies would convert from peacetime to wartime production and allocated raw materials to key industries. The WPB also organized drives to col-
lect scrap iron, tin cans, paper, rags, and cooking fat for recycling into war goods.

# data[].attributes.body
Congress also raised income tax rates and extended the tax to millions of people who had never paid it before. The higher taxes reduced consumer demand on scarce goods by leaving workers with less to spend.

# data[].attributes.headline
Rationing establishing fixed allotments of goods deemed essential for the military.

# data[].attributes.subject
Rationing establishing fixed allotments of goods deemed essential for the military.

# data[].attributes.headline
Under this system,households received ration books with coupons to be used for buying such scarcegoods as meat, shoes, sugar, coffee, and gasoline. Gas rationing was particularlyhard on those who lived in western regions, where driving was the only way toget around.

# data[].attributes.subject
Under this system,households received ration books with coupons to be used for buying such scarcegoods as meat, shoes, sugar, coffee, and gasoline. Gas rationing was particularlyhard on those who lived in western regions, where driving was the only way toget around.

# data[].attributes.headline
When the war began, defense contractors warnedthe Selective Service System that the nation did not have enough workers to meetboth its military and its industrial needs. They were wrong. By 1944, despite thedraft, nearly 18 million workers were laboring in war industries, three times asmany as in 1941.More than 6 million ofthese new workers were women.

# data[].attributes.subject
When the war began, defense contractors warnedthe Selective Service System that the nation did not have enough workers to meetboth its military and its industrial needs. They were wrong. By 1944, despite thedraft, nearly 18 million workers were laboring in war industries, three times asmany as in 1941.More than 6 million ofthese new workers were women.