1. Bellringer Part I Friday October 13th
1) What are the FOUR long term causes of World War I?
2) What was America’s position at the start of the war? Why?
3) Why does America eventually enter WWI and which side to we join?
4) Complete the Woodrow Wilson Quote “to make the world safe for __________”

2. Did President Wilson make the right decision to ask Congress for a Declaration of war?
YES NO

3. Bellringer 10/13 Part II
Pick up a copy of the song lyrics “Over There”
Read the lyrics.
Answer the 5 questions IN THE BELLRINGER SECTION OF YOUR NOTEBOOK
Do not write on the handout!

4. Focus Questions: How did WWI affect Americans at Home
Focus Questions: How did WWI affect Americans at Home? How did the role of the government change in WWI?
World War I at Home

5. Predict: What things do you think America might need to do to get ready for War & support its troops during the War?

6. Immigrants Germans faced anti-immigrant attacks
People with German last names lost their jobs
Schools stopped teaching German language
Orchestras refused to play music of German artists
Hamburger renamed Salisbury Steak or Liberty Steak
Dachshunds renamed “liberty pups”

7. Women Moved in to jobs previously held by men
Railroad Workers, Cooks, Bricklayers, Coal Miners
Worked in Red Cross facilities
Planted “victory gardens”

8. African Americans
Great Migration: large scale movement of hundreds of thousands of Southern blacks to cities in the North.
Wanted to escape discrimination
Also drop in European immigration led to new job opportunities in factories in the North for African Americans

10. Government Agencies Purpose: to draft men into army
Selective Service Commission (Selective Service Act)
Purpose: to draft men into army
1st draft in US History!

11. Government Agencies War Industries Board Bernard Baruch is leader
Purpose: decided what products factories would make to help support War.

12. Why would this be important?
Government Agencies
National War Labor Board
Purpose: to help prevent conflict between employees and bosses
Why would this be important?

13. Government Agencies Created during WWI
Food Administration
Could control prices, oversee exports, tell farmers to grow more crops.
Purpose: to help with rationing food

14. Why would the U.S. need to ration things?
Meatless Mondays and Wheatless Wednesdays!
Why would the U.S. need to ration things?

16. Government Agencies created during WWI
Committee on Public Information
-George Creel was leader
-Purpose: to produce PROPAGANDA!
Definition: Information that is spread for the purpose of promoting a cause.

17. Why do you think the U.S. needed propaganda in WWI?
Types of propaganda: advertisements, songs, poems, writings

18. How did the government limit personal liberties?
Espionage & Sedition Acts
Created to keep people from speaking out against the War
Eugene Debs, the leader of the American Socialist Party, is put in prison under this act.
What did the socialist party believe in? Why do you think they are targeted and punished during WWI?

19. Schenck v. United States, 1919
Charles Schenck published pamphlets (writings) protesting the draft.
Schenck was arrested under the Espionage Act.
He appealed to Supreme Court because the 1st amendment gives the right of free speech!
Supreme court ruled in times of war, the government may limit free speech

20. Propaganda? persuading people towards a particular behavior or belief

22. Common Objectives of Wartime Propaganda
Recruiting Soldiers
Making $$ to help with war effort
Unifying the Country
Conserving Resources (food, oil, and other things needed for war)

23. Common Tools of Wartime Propaganda
Demonization: shows the enemy as evil
Emotional Appeal
Name Calling: encourages hatred of enemy
Patriotic Appeals
Catchy Slogans
Half-Truths or Lies
Visual Symbols
Humor or Caricatures.

28. In your groups Part 1: Evaluating Propaganda Posters
Examine all four propaganda posters
Complete the Propaganda Chart for each poster. Make sure you know whether you are looking at poster A, poster B, etc.

29. In your groups Part 2: Creating Propaganda Posters
Your group will select one objective (goal) and one technique/tactic.
Create a propaganda poster that uses the technique you have selected and also has the objective you selected.
Posters should have a visual and some type of slogan or phrase.

30. Evaluating another group’s poster
On the back of the group’s poster- please guess– you can only guess ONE so guess whatever is most readily apparent
1) What their objective was (recruiting soldiers, unifying the country, making $$, conserving resources)
2) What technique they used (demonization, emotional appeal, name calling, patriotic appeals, catchy slogans, visual symbols, humor)

31. Free Write Ticket Out
In a paragraph (COMPLETE sentences):
Describe how WWI affected the lives of individual Americans. Give at least 3 specific examples.