Chapter 12 Lesson 1 Review

Cos-plus contracts helped the US get ready for war by motivating companies to produce war materiel quickly and in quantity due to the guaranteed profit stipulated in these contracts.

During the war, women and African Americans especially benefited due to the new economic opportunities made available to them as a result of war production and due to new political developments, that lessened some of the discrimination that African Americans faced.

Minorities and women served in the army, navy, and air force as nurses, pilots, sailors, and combat troops.

The US government mobilized the economy for war by making loans available to factories that wished to convert to wartime production, creating cost-plus contracts, coming to no-strike agreements with labor organizations, and calling for public support in the forms of rationing, scrap collection, and bond purchasing.

WW2 gave women and minorities more opportunities to work and progress in society and the military, while also subjecting certain minority groups, such as the Japanese, Germans, and Italians, to government-sponsored discrimination, displacement, and mistreatment.

The wartime displacement of many Americans served as a massive stain on the history of the US government, a legitimation of discriminatory practices, and a way through which the rights, property, and wealth of many individuals was taken.

The government set into place wage and price regulations, along with rationing, in order to stabilize wages and prices.