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The Service Act of 1940 that was issued on September 16, 1940 required all men between the ages of 21-45 to register for the draft. Those who registered were required to serve at least one year in the armed forces. Once the United States entered the war, draft terms extended through the duration of the fighting. By the end of the war in 1945, 50 million men between eighteen and forty-five had registered for the draft and 10 million had been inducted in the military.

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The WAAC was established for women to be able to work in the army. The Army would provide up to 150,000 "auxiliaries" with food, uniforms, living quarters, pay, and medical care. They only opened up 150,000 spots because some women had to stay at home and take over duties that the men had to leave behind if they were to of gotten drafted. However, women who are officers will not be able to command men. Although women are now in the army, they were not given all of the rights that the men did. They did not get paid equal, and even though they were able to go overseas, they did not get oversea pay.

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Minority groups and their military service

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Minority groups and their military service

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Ethnic minority groups served in WWII including: 13,311 Chinese, 20,080 Japanese, 1,320 Hawaiian's, 44,000 American-Indians, 11,506 Fillipino's, and 51,438 Puerto-Rican minority groups. During the war, these minority groups would all get the same pay rate and both men and women would work in factories making war materials and would replace the jobs of men who had gone off to war.

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During WWII approximately 400,000 U.S. women served with the armed forces, and about 37% of those 400,000 women were employed. This is important because women didn't work until they had to. After the WWII draft, they did not have enough men to get all of the equipment built for the military which is when they started to reach out to women to join the workforce.

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The office of price administration was created on August 28, 1941 to stabilize prices and rents and prevent unwarrented increases in them. To prevent profiteering, hoarding, and speculation. The OPA was established to control rents and money after the outbreak of WWII.

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Rationing was fairly distributing food and commodities when they were at risk. Every American was entitled to a series of war ration books with stamps that could be used to buy restricted items. Within weeks of first insurance, more than 91% of the U.S. population had registered to receive them. The OPA allowed a certain amount of points to each food item based on its availability, and customers were allowed to use 48 ‘blue points’ to buy canned, bottled or dried foods, and 64 ‘red points’ to buy meat, fish and dairy each month—that is, if the items were in stock at the market.

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A war bond is a debt instrument issued by a government as a means of borrowing money to finance its defense initiatives and military efforts during times of war. A war bond is essentially a loan to a government. In the U.S., the sale of war bonds was overseen by the War Finance Committee.After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941, the U.S. entered the second world war, and Defense Bonds were renamed, War Bonds. War Bonds. More than 80 million Americans purchased war Bonds and brought in over $180 billion in revenue.

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The War Production Board (WPB) was an agency of the United States government that supervised war productionduring World War II. President Franklin D. Roosevelt established it in January 1942, with Executive Order 9024.In 1942-45, WPB supervised the production of $183 billion worth of weapons and supplies, about 40% of the world output of munitions. Britain, the USSR and other allies produced an additional 30%, while the Axis produced only 30%. One fourth of the US output was warplanes; one fourth was warships. Meanwhile, the civilian standard of living was about level.

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The United States Office of War Information was a United States government agency created during World War II. OWI operated from June 1942 until September 1945. 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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The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in concentration camps in the western interior of the country of about 120,000 people of Japaneseancestry, most of whom lived on the Pacific Coast. Its mission was to “take all people of Japanese descent into custody, surround them with troops, prevent them from buying land, and return them to their former homes at the close of the war."