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Running Head: THE COLD WAR AND THE AMERICAN SOCIETY The Cold War and the American Society Student Professor Course Date 1 THE COLD WAR AND THE AMERICAN SOCIETY 2 How did the government, business, and labor work together to promote wartime production? The government World War II changed the lives of the American citizens and the role of the government, (Kaye, 2014). During World War II, the government formed federal agencies such as the Office of Price Administration, the War Manpower Commission, and the War Production Board to regulate the shipping industry, control labor allocation, fix rents/prices/wages, and set manufacturing quotas. To be precise, the War Production Board was created by the federal agencies to determine which corporations would make the materials used in the war and how these war materials would be distributed. The office of Price Administration, on the other hand, was created by the federal agencies to counter inflation and boom in the market during World War II. The federal government also organized housing and accommodation for the World War II war employees and forced the civilian companies/industries to reorganize for production during for war, (Foner, 2013). Businesses 2.5 million trucks, 100,000 armored vehicles, and thousands of aircraft rolled off American assembly lines, and new products such as synthetic fiber served as a replacement for natural resources that were currently controlled by the country Japan, (Foner, Give Me Liberty! and Vo ...
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