Wartime Agencies
This US agency was responsible for coordinating industrial production during World War II.
What is the Wartime Production Board?
The US government shifted much of it's economy to this sector during the war.
What is manufacturing?
What was the largest way the US government collected money to fund the war, both before and during it.
What are taxes?
This person was the president during WW2, leading many of the policy changes, as well as general economic strategy during the time.
FDR
This government agency regulated prices and implemented rationing programs during World War II.
What is the Office of Price Administration?
During the war, the US government launched campaigns to get these people in factories.
Who are women?
What are war bonds?
This person founded the IMF, a fund meant to increase global cooperation and help grow the economies of smaller nations.
Who is John Maynard Keynes?
This organization oversaw labor and employment during World War II, addressing the shortage of workers in industries.
What is the War Manpower Commision?
During the war, large amounts of tax dollars were spent on innovating this field.
What is technology?
Due to heightened government spending, industrial production, and employment, this thing grew and ended the great depression.
What is the economy?
This person founded the World Bank, an organization working to decrease global poverty and improve standard of living across the world.
Who is Harry Dexter White?
This US board was established during World War II to formulate economic strategies against enemy nations.
What is the Board of Economic Warfare?
What are training programs?
During the war, these programs were instituted to keep costs low foe everyday items.
What is Price Control?
This person implemented the Marshall plan, accelerating the West's economic recovery.
Who is Harry Truman?
This government office aimed to maintain economic stability during World War II through various policies and measures.
What is the Office of Economic Stabilization?
Because of this thing increasing, the wartime economy saved America from the great depression.
What is Employment?
During the war, the US used this strategy to conserve resources and keep their country's reserves sufficient.
What is rationing?
As the secretary of treasury under FDR, this man coordinated the US's economy, including war financing, debt management, and international relations.
Who is Harry Morgenthau Jr.?