1. the Home Front

2. Mobilizing for War Government needed money for the war
WWI cost $33.5 billion dollars
To raise money Americans sold – War bonds – low interest loans by civilians to the government, meant to be repaid in a number of years

3. Americans Helped in the War Effort
Boy Scouts sold war bonds
Victory Gardens – send food to the troops
Wheatless Mondays and Wednesdays and meatless Tuesdays
Government limited civilian use of steel and other metals

4. Social Changes African Americans Women Great Migration North
Job opportunities
Escape racial tension
Women
Took over male jobs
1919 passage of 19th Amendment

5. Propaganda
President Wilson created the Committee on Public Information – writers, artists, photographers and filmmakers produced propaganda – opinions expressed for the purpose of influencing the actions of others.
Sold the war through posters, pamphlets and movies.

6. Intolerance and Suspicion
Propaganda stirred anti-German feelings in America
Berlin, Maryland changed to Brunswick, Maryland
Sauerkraut became “liberty cabbage”

7. Espionage Act
Espionage Act – law that set heavy fines and long prison terms for antiwar activities and for encouraging draft resisters

8. Sedition Act
Sedition Act – law that made it illegal to criticize the war; it set heavy fines and long prison terms for those who engaged in antiwar activities

9. New Jobs and the Great Migration
Labor shortage
Willing to hire African Americans
,000 African Americans moved north to cities such as New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland and St. Louis
Movement north became known as the Great Migration

10. The Flu Epidemic of 1918
Flu in 1918 that killed 20 million people on six continents
No known cure
Movement of troops spread the virus
500,000 Americans died