US Home-Front during WWII Government expansion, and civil liberties Industrial Production US government organizes agencies to mobilize economic and military resources 1942- War Productions Board (WPB)- Manage industries Office of War management (OWM)- production priorities, and control of war materials Office of Price Administration (OPA)- freeze prices, wages, rent, set up rationing (meat, sugar, gasoline, auto tires) Economy is stimulated by the demand for government contracts- unemployment will practically be gone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eoE12ywDzA Industrial Production War production by 1944 will be 2x of all the AXIS powers combined. Unions- will not strike due to the Smith-Connelly Act; allows the army to take over workers threatening to strike
us home front during WWI
US Home-Front during WWII Government expansion, and civil liberties Industrial Production US government organizes agencies to mobilize economic and military resources 1942- War Productions Board (WPB)- Manage industries Office of War management (OWM)- production priorities, and control of war materials Office of Price Administration (OPA)- freeze prices, wages, rent, set up rationing (meat, sugar, gasoline, auto tires) Economy is stimulated by the demand for government contracts- unemployment will practically be gone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eoE12ywDzA Industrial Production War production by 1944 will be 2x of all the AXIS powers combined. Unions- will not strike due to the Smith-Connelly Act; allows the army to take over workers threatening to strike
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