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WWI – home front Economic, social, demographic, political ramifications Death/disease Spanish Influenza 50 – 100 million die 500,000 – 675,000 in U.S. Young adults Funding War/Economy Taxes Revenue Act (1916) War Revenue Act (1917) Revenue – $900 million to $4 billion in1918 Bonds “Liberty Bonds” $20 billion

Agriculture Mechanized, greatly expanded Women Blacks “Great Migration” 400,000 (1916-1918) Industry War Industries Board – Frank Scott, Bernard Baruch Voluntarism Food Administration

Selling the War Committee on Public Information (CPI) George Creel Newspapers, pamphlets, radio, movies, posters

Four-minute men – 75,000 Anti-German sentiment Robert Prager Washington Post “In spite of excesses such as lynching, it is a healthful and wholesome awakening in the interior of the country"