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Henry Ford
Automobile factories produced rifles, helmets, artillery and dozens of other pieces of military equipment along with vehicles. Henry Ford created an assembly line near Detroit for the enormous B-24 "Liberator" bomber. The factory went on to build more than 8,600 aircraft. -
New Jobs After the Great Depression
Mobilizing the economy finally ended the Great Depression, creating almost 19 million new jobs and nearly doubling the average family's income. -
Germany's attack on Poland
President Roosevelt expanded the army to 227,000 soldiers. -
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Women in Defense Plants
The wartime labor shortage, however, forced factories to recruit married women for industrial jobs traditionally reserved for men. Although the government hired nearly 4 million women, primarily for clerical jobs, the women working in the factories captured the public's imagination. -
Spring of 1940
Many Americans ha opposed a peacetime draft, opinions changed after France surrendered to Germany in June of 1940 -
Office of war information
President Roosevelt created the office of War Information (OWI). The OWI's role was to improve the public's understanding of the war and to act as a liaison office with various media. -
Japanese, German, and Italian American Relocation
President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 allowing the War Department to declare any part of the United States a military zone and to remove people from that zone as needed. -
Women join the Armed Forces
The army enlisted them for the first time but barred them from combat. Many army jobs were administrative and clerical, Congress first allowed women in the military in May 1942 by creating the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC). -
American Industry Gets The Job Done
By the Summer of 1942, almost all major industries and soomoe 20,000 companies had converted to war production, together they made the nation's wartime "miracle" happen -
What Ronald Reagan Did
President Ronald apologized to Japanese Americans on behalf of the U.S. government and signed legislation granting $20,000 to each surviving Japanese American who had been interned
