MOBILIZATION
1941
TYPES OF MOBILIZATION:
Armed Forces
Diversity in armed forces:
-3 hundred thousand mexicans joined forces
- 1 million african americans serve
- chinese and native americans enlisted
Factories
-convert from civilian to war production
-use prefabricated parts
-produce ships and arms rapidly
Workforce
-Manhattan project goes underway to make atomic bomb
-nearly 18 million in war industriesu
Important People
Gen. George Marshall
Army chief of staff who called for women corps
James F. Byrnes
runs office of war mobilization, the super agency in the centralization of resources
Henry J. Kaiser
makes shipbuilding faster
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