1. Chapter 9 Section 2
The Home Front

2. 1. Organizing The Economy
Government Agencies
Ensure efficient use of national resources
War Industries Board (WIB)- established to coordinate the production of raw materials, construct new factories, set some prices.
Food Administration- Increasing food production, while reducing civilian consumption
Victory Gardens
Wheatless Mon, Meatless Tues, Porkless Thurs.

3. Paying for the War
3. Fuel Administration- To conserve energy and manage the nation’s use of coal and oil.
Intro to Day light savings time and shortened workweeks for factories that didn’t make war materials.
4. Liberty Bonds and Victory Bonds- Americans would lend money and government would repay with interest

4. The Workforce
National War Labor Board (NWLB)- Would mediate labor disputes to prevent workers from going on strike.
Improve wages, adopt an eight-hour workday, allow unions right to organize, and bargain collectively.
Women
Factories, shipyards, railroads, police officers, mail carriers, industrial jobs
African Americans
“Great Migration”
Mexican Americans
Southwest: Labor for farmers & ranchers

5. Public Opinion
Committee on Public Information- Sell the war to the American People
Pamphlets and “four-minute speeches”
Espionage and Sedition Act Spying to obtain government information; illegal to speak against the war publicly.
Propaganda

6. 2. Building The Military
Selective Act of Draft; Done by the states through local draft boards.
African Americans
Discrimination & prejudice in army
Racially segregated units
Supervised by white officers
Women
Noncombat positions
Navy: Clerical, radio operators, electricians, pharmacist, chemist, and photographers
Army Nursing Corps.

7. DEATH TOLLS 50,000 Americans died 200,000 wounded
Another 60,000 Americans- disease
Flu Epidemic
25-50 million worldwide
Including 500,000 Americans