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"Remember Pearl Harbor" | Unifying battle cry for the American public |
Selective Service System | Expanded the draft by providing 10 million soldiers for the armed forces |
General George Marshall | Army Chief of Staff that pushed for the formation of WAAC |
Women's Auxiliary Army Corps | Women volunteers serving in non-combat positions |
A. Philip Randolph | Threatened to stage a march on Washington to draw attention to the discrimination in war industries and the military |
Office of Scientific Research and Development | Spurred improvements in radar and sonar |
The Manhattan Project | Code name for research to create the atomic bomb |
Office of Price Administration | Fought inflation by freezing prices on most goods |
War Production Board | Ensured that war industries would receive the resources that that they need |
rationing | fixed allotments of goods deemed essential to the military |