1. War on the Homefront (1917)

2. Raising Troops
Selective Service Act- required all men age to register for the military draft.
Next 18 months, 4 million men and women joined the armed forces.

6. Raising Troops
Women served as nurses, radio operators, clerks, and stenographers.

7. Raising Money
Liberty Bonds-American citizens were lending money to the government to pay for the war.
Liberty Bonds raised $21 billion, just over half the cost of the war.

11. Public Opinion Anti-German prejudice was very prevalent in the U.S.
Pacifists- people who refuse to fight b/c they believe war is evil.

12. Public Opinion
Socialist-believed that workers should benefit from war time business and not factory owners.

13. Helping the Troops U.S. set up a bureaucracy.
Bureaucracy- a system of managing government through departments.
1. Food Administration-job was to boost food production.

17. Helping the Troops
2. War Industries Board- government told factories what to produce.