Mobilization
Get Ready for War!
Armed Forces
Factories
factories convert from civilian to war production
shipyards, defense plants expand, new ones built
produce ships, arms rapidly
use prefabricated parts
people work at record speeds
The BIG 3
Franklin D. Roosevelt
James F. Byrnes
He ran the Office of War Mobilization. It served as a super agency in the centralization of resources. He was a confident in US President FDR. Byrnes was one of the most powerful men in American domestic and foreign policy in the mid-1940s.
Phillip Randolph
Randolph was the Head of Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. He Organized the march on D.C. FDR executive order forbids discrimination. In 1941it took place banning discrimination in the defense industries during WWII
Work Force
Nearly 18 million workers in war industries; 6 million are women. Over 2 million minorities hired; face strong discrimination at first. Unemployment drops drastically. Then strikes stop….at first. They end up increasing sharply in 1943 because of rising cost of living expenses.