Transcript The War at Home

The War at Home
• President Woodrow Wilson's
War Aims - Progressivism
Abroad
• "American Principles"
“The world must be made safe
for democracy”
Raising Money
• Income Taxes, taxes on luxury
items (alcohol, cigarettes)
• "Liberty Bonds"
• War Industries Board
-Bernard Baruch-businessman
The War at Home
• Food
Administration
– Meatless, wheatless,
sweetless, porkless days
– “Victory Gardens”
• Committee on Public
Information (CPI)
Propaganda
-Muckraker
George Creel
Individual rights and Liberties
during the Great War
• civil liberties n. rights or freedoms given to
the people by the First Amendment to the
Constitution, by common law, or legislation,
allowing the individual to be free to speak,
think, assemble, organize, worship, or
petition without government (or even private)
interference or restraints.