Launch list 1. Copy new objectives 2. Have homework out and ready.

Objectives 9. Identify 3 new technologies used in ww1 and explain how it affected warfare. (3) 10. List 3 roles of women during ww1(2). 11. Explain why laws were passed limiting freedom of speech were passed during ww1(2).

2a. Warmonger- person who tries to stir up war.

2b. Czar- Russian Leader. (like a king or a Kaiser)

2c. Draft-Law requiring people to serve in the military.

2d. Illiterate- unable to read or write. (25% of army recruits)

2e. Bureaucracy-System of managing the government through departments.

2f. Pacifist-People who refuse to support war because it is evil.

2g. socialist- people who believe the government should own everything and everyone should get a fair share

3. Identify 3 events that moved the United States towards war –Germany’s u-boat attacks –The Zimmerman notes –Russian revolution

Allied Ships Sunk by U-Boats

4A. List 3 government agencies that were set up to organize the war effort. 1. Food administration- boosted food output 2. War Industries Board- oversaw the correct factory output took place 3. War Labor board- settled labor disputes, prevented strikes

5. What steps did the government take to silence the critics of war? –Criticizing the government or hindering the war effort became crimes. –(people were sent to jail!)

7. Organizing the War Effort: The government organized the economy to help the war effort by setting up government agencies.

8. List 4 major government agencies set up to help organize the war effort. 1. Food Administration 2. War Industries Board 3. War Labor Board 4. Committee on Public Information

9. Food administration: Urged families to conserve for the war effort Wheat less Wednesdays Meatless Tuesdays Food will win the war Farmers planted Victory Gardens

2. War Industries Board Urged manufacturers to use mass production techniques and increase efficiency

3. War Labor Board Settles labor disputes.

10. Committee on Public Information Public speakers urging Americans to make sacrifices for freedom and democracy Government hired 75,000 speakers called “four minute men”

4. Committee on Public Information

11. What were Liberty Bonds? Citizens would lend money to the government to pay for the war. Raised over 21$ billion, over half of what it spent on the war

Liberty Bonds:

A Multi-Front War

Trench Warfare

“No Man’s Land”

Verdun – February, 1916 e German offensive. e Each side had 500,000 casualties. e German offensive. e Each side had 500,000 casualties.

The Somme – July, 1916 e 60,000 British soldiers killed in one day. e Over 1,000,000 killed in 5 months. e 60,000 British soldiers killed in one day. e Over 1,000,000 killed in 5 months.

War Is NOT PRETTY

Sacrifices in War

Krupp’s “Big Bertha” Gun

The War of the Industrial Revolution: New Technology

French Renault Tank

British Tank at Ypres

U-Boats

Allied Ships Sunk by U-Boats

The Airplane “Squadron Over the Brenta” Max Edler von Poosch, 1917

Curtis-Martin U. S. Aircraft Plant

Looking for the “Red Baron?”

The Zeppelin

Flame Throwers Grenade Launchers

Poison Gas Machine Gun

World War I Casualties

Women and the War Effort

Financing the War

For Recruitment

Munitions Workers

French Women Factory Workers

German Women Factory Workers

Working in the Fields

A Woman Ambulance Driver

Red Cross Nurses

Women in the Army Auxiliary

Russian Women Soldiers

Spies e “Mata Hari” e Real Name: Margareetha Geertruide Zelle e German Spy! e “Mata Hari” e Real Name: Margareetha Geertruide Zelle e German Spy!

Intolerance at home: Espionage Act of 1917: Anything that hurt the war effort was considered illegal. Punishable by a $10,000 fine and 20 years in prison

Supreme Court Case: Schenck vs USA 1919 Mr. Schenck passed out anti-war leaflets at a military recruitment site. His argument was that a military draft = slavery “don’t go to war!”

Found guilty of the Espionage act because what he was doing presented a “clear and present danger” to the country.