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Selective Training and Service Act
passed by the Congress of the United States, becoming the first peacetime conscription in United States history when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed it into law two days later. This Selective Service Act required that men between the ages of 21 and 35 register with local draft boards. Later, when the U.S. entered World War II, all men aged 18 to 45 were made liable for military service, and all men aged 18 to 65 were required to register. -By Carlee Brannigan -
The Office of Price Administration
Established by an executive order. The OPA's job was to control inflation by limiting prices and rents. Such controls sometimes backfired,for example comapines would cut back on the production of goods whose prices did not allow for substantial profit. -Amber Zimecki -
War Production Board
FDR knew that the federal governement would have to coordinate the production of American businesses to meet allied demand. The governement set up the War Production to direct the conversion of peacetime industries that produced war goods. Quicky haulted the production of hundreds of civilian goods, from cars to lawn mowers to bird cages, and encouraged compaines to make goods for the war. -Sami Hedges -
Office of war mobilization
The office would serve as a superagency in the centralization of resouces. Working from a office in the White House. Byrnes had such broad authoritythat he was often called the "assistant president". Some peoplesaid that Byrnes ran the country while FDR ran the war.-Megan Vacco -
The Smith COnnaly Act
Was an American law, over president FDR's veto. The legidlation was hirriedly created after 400,000 coal miners, their wages significatly lowered due to hight wartime infationfor a 2$ wage increase.- Dylan Edmonds
