Question

What role did the office of war mobilization play?

Answer 1

Hint: The War Production Board was supposed to be replaced by the Office of War Mobilization, which was deemed inefficient. It was necessary to increase the war's resources.

Complete answer:
In 1939, Roosevelt began creating mobilisation organisations, but none of them had the power or authority to restore order to the turmoil produced when industry turned to war production. In January 1942, he founded the War Development Board to organise mobilisation, and in 1943, he established the Office of War Mobilization to supervise the slew of military departments that had sprouted up in Washington, D.C.

During World War II, the United States government established the Office of War Mobilization (OWM) as an autonomous department to oversee all government departments participating in the war effort. Executive Order 9347 founded it on May 27, 1943.

Former US Senator and Supreme Court Justice James F. Byrnes led the group. Byrnes had previously worked as the Director of the Office of Economic Stability, which was in charge of market and tax policy. The OWM was in command of the OES, as well as the War Development Board and other government departments. On October 3, 1944, it was renamed the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion.

Note:
- Byrnes' power as the head of the OWM was so extensive that he was nicknamed "assistant President."
- Byrnes resigned after attending the Yalta (Big Three) Conference with Roosevelt in February 1945, but was recalled to active duty as secretary of state by President Harry S. Truman in the same year, and accompanied Truman to the Potsdam Conference.