describe the process the united states used for building up and army and navy to fight in WWII?

Question

Describe the process the United States used for building up an army and navy to fight in WWII? What role did women and African Americans have in the armed forces?

Answer 1

Those are both two very large questions.  The first one I have no idea what your book is really asking for.  

 

http://www.njdigitalhighway.org/enj/lessons/ww_ii_industrial_production/ includes some great descriptions of the actual engineering processes.  

 

 

The second one is fairly normal, and here's a useful starting point for you to start your readings: 

 

 

Women were nurses and "auxiliaries" in WWII.  They didn't normally see combat, except for those women (WAFs) who shuttled airplanes from place to place -- many of them ended up better pilots than the men, just from surviving more hours in the air.  There were some excellent black pilots as well (see the Tuskegee airmen).

 

Blacks were not allowed to have much rank during WWII.  Black combat units often got the deadliest missions, and on the whole acquitted themselves very well.  The very valor with which they accomplished their difficult missions was a great part of the reason that Americans of all colors began breaking down the racial segregation that had been held as normal before that point.  Once men have fought together, they can't easily let go of the esprit de corps they've established.   

 

The above are my personal opinions and observations.  You'll have to check your resources to see whether this is the stuff they think you should be learning, or whether they expect you to find other details or other conclusions.