Transcript World War I: On the Homefront

DO NOW
• Once the United States entered the
War, President Wilson moved quickly
to mobilize the nation.
• After reading pages 628-630 identify
how President Wilson prepared the
nation for war. (Be specific and site
examples)
1917 – Selective Service Act
24,000,000 men registered for
the draft by the end of 1918.
Discussion
• “Wars are not only fought at the
war's front. They are also fought
on the home front”
• What are the responsibilities of an
American citizen during a war the
US is involved in?
• What guarantees the success of a
nation during a war?
TASK: copy/complete this chart
Agency
1. Food Administration
LED BY:
2. War Industries Board
3. Committee on Public
Information
LED BY:
Purpose
How Goals Accomplished
Food
Administration
- led by
Herbert
Hoover
• Purpose:
conserve food
for troops
War Industries Board
• Led by Bernard Baruch
• Regulated all industries engaged in
war effort
DO NOW
• Turn to page 636
and answer the
following
• Why was Charles
Schneck
Arrested?
• What does that
violate?
• What did the
Supreme Court
Decide?
Committee on Public
Information: led by George
Creel
America’s
“Propaganda
Minister”
Daylight
savings time
first enacted
during WW1
to save fuel
Propaganda Poster
PPT/handout
Results of This New
Organization of the Economy?
1.Unemployment
virtually disappeared.
2.Expansion of “big
government.”
3.Excessive govt.
regulations in eco.
Results of This New Organization of
the Economy?
4.Close cooperation between
public
and private sectors.
5. Unprecedented opportunities
for disadvantaged groups.
(ex. 1. Women, 2. African
Americans, 3. Immigrants)
Attacks on Civil Liberties Increase
Anti-Immigrant Hysteria
• Germans and Austrian/Hungarians
• Suppression of German culture—
music, language, literature
Espionage and Sedition Acts
•person can be fined, imprisoned for:
- interfering with war effort, speaking
against government
• Violated 1st amendment; prosecute
loosely defined antiwar activities
- target socialists, labor leaders
NEXT
Eugene Debs Leader of
the Socialist party
sentenced to 10 years in
jail for a mildly antiwar
speech
Shenck vs. United States
socialist who sent 15,000 leaflets to men eligible for
draft
"Do not submit to intimidation", "Assert your rights",
• "when a nation is at war many things that
might be said in time of peace are such a
hindrance to its effort that their utterance
will not be endured so long as men fight,
and that no Court could regard them as
protected by any constitutional right.“
• In other words, the court held, the
circumstances of wartime permit greater
restrictions on free speech than would be
allowable during peacetime.
YWCA – The Blue Triangle
WW1: Women
working as
“Hello Girls”Frontline
telephone
operators
Opportunities for
African-Americans in WW1
“Great Migration.”
1916 – 1919  70,000
A.A. move north for war
industries work.
Enlistment in segregated
units.
Design your own wartime poster/write a paragraph
describing your tactics.
 Pick a clearly stated goal, such as asking volunteers
to join the army, buy liberty bonds or suggesting that
people not waste food during the wartime shortages.
 In drawing your poster, be sure that it will grab
people’s attention and convey your message clearly
and persuasively.
 What is the content of your message?
 What persuasive techniques do you want to use?
 To which emotions do you wish to appeal?
Use the posters on this PowerPoint as inspiration.
1. Millions of people died during the war
due to ___________________.
 a. fighting in the battlefield
 b. hunger
 c. diseases related to war
 d. all the above
2. Which of the following did the War
Industries Board not do?
 a. create daylight savings time
 b. use women's corsets to build two
battleships
 c. increase industrial production by
20%
 d. all of the above are correct
3. What was the new construction
technique that allowed America to
launch 95 ships on July 4, 1918?
 a. four Minute Men
 b. mass production & fabrication
 c. convoy systems
 d. none of the above
4. Which of the following did not apply
to the efforts made by the
doughboys for the American Force in
the war?
 a. they were led by General John J
Pershing
 b. they over threw the Russian
Government
 c. they fought the last German
offense in France
 d. they improved the Allies' morale to
win the war