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Congress approved the Selective Training and Service Act, a plan for the first peacetime draft in American history.
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The Air Force created its first ever African American unit, the 99th Pursuit Squadron. Trained in Tuskegee Alabama they were know as the Tuskegee Airmen.
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President Roosevelt issued the Executive Order 8802 in 1941, which stated that there shall be no discrimination in the employment of workers.
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The army enlisted them for the first time but barred them from combat. Many jobs that the women took were administrative and clerical. When women took these jobs it freed more men from combat. Congress first allowed them in war in may 1942 due to the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC).
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By the summer of 1942 almost all major industries and some 200,000 companies converted to war production.
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In 1942 president Roosevelt set up the War Production Board (WPB), this directed priorities production goals to the war.
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Created by president Roosevelt the OWI's role in the war was to improve the publics understanding of the war and act as a liaison office with various media.
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President Roosevelt signed this allowing the war department to declare any part of the U.S a military zone and move people from that zone if needed.
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Starting in 1943, the U.S military did not end all segregation during the war, they did have interstates bases. the African American role steadily expanded, through there success president Truman decided to fully integrate the military in 1948
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Racial violence erupted in Detroit as fighting between African Americans teens and whites triggered a citywide riot that left 25 African Americans dead and 9 whites dead.