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| Office of War Mobilization | coordinated all gov't war agencies dealing with the production and distribution of civilian goods |
| War Production Board | directed production of war materials by converting industries, building new plants, and allocating resources |
| war bonds | government borrowing of money from the American people, raising $100 billion |
| rationing | limited the sale of some products to keep prices down and to conserve products needed for the war |
| Selective Training and Service Act | first peacetime draft; required all men 18-37 to register for the military |
| Office of War Information | controlled news from the war fronts and produced propaganda films and literature |
| internment/relocation | placed 110,000 Japanese-Americans in detention camps to prevent them from helping Japan's war efforts |
| Issei | people born in Japan, living in America, but ineligible for citizenship |
| Nisei | people of Japanese ancestory who were born in the U.S. and were American citizens |
| Fair Employment Practices Commission | investigated companies to assure that all citizens regardless of race were treated fairly in hiring |
| Rosie the Riveter | symbol of the American women working in the defense industry while the men fought in the war |
| Pearl Harbor | military base attacked by Japan on December 7, 1941, to bring the U.S. into World War II |
| James F. Byrnes | headed the Office of War Mobilization and was considered by many to be the "assistant president" |
| Thomas Dewey | Governor of New York who ran against and lost to FDR in the 1944 election |
| Harry S. Truman | the man elected as FDR's vice-president in 1944 |
