17.1 Overview
Mobilizing For Defense

1.  What was selective service and how did it work?

2.  How were women able to serve and in what capacity?

3.  What effect did discrimination have on the recruitment process and how was it overcome?

4.  How did industry rise up and meet the demands of the war?

5.  How did workers contribute to the effort to meed the industrial needs of a nation at war?

6.  Who was A. Philip Randolph, how did he call attention to the discrimination in defense hiring and what was the effect?

7.  How did Hollywood help mobilization efforts?

8. How did science help to mobilize our resources for war?

9.  How did the government control the economy during wartime and how did Americans react to this?