1. 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

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

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

6. 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"