1. By Eric Bercaw, Kyle Boyd, and Graham Boreland #3. AN ECONOMIC OVERVIEW OF WWI

2.  In 1916, the government created the councils of national defense.  It oversaw the governments preparedness for a war.  After war was declared, the war industries board was created to coordinate military purchasing, ensure production efficiency and supply the troops  August 1917: Wilson set up the Fuel and the Food Administration  The Fuel Administration controlled coal output, regulated fuel prices and consumption, and introduced daylight-saving time  The Food Administration oversaw production and allocation of meat, wheat and sugar to ensure supplies for the army as well as for the desperately food-short Allies GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC REGULATIONS

3.  National War Labor Board resolved labor-management disputes that jeopardized production  Railroad Administration, led by William McAdoo, transformed thousands of miles track operated by competing companies into an efficient national rail system GOV. ECON. REG. CONT.

4.  Headed by journalist George Creel  It was created to promote government propaganda  It published the government’s version of events and discredited all who questioned the governments version  Examples:  One division distributed posters that were pro-war  Other divisions wrote articles that reported news that favored the government’s goals COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION

5.  Administration used new professions of advertising and public relations to pursue their goal of supporting the war  Examples:  Posters exhorted citizens to “Fight or Buy Bonds”  Liberty Loan parades featured flags, banners and marching bands  Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and other famous movie stars prompted the cause  Schoolchildren purchased “thrift stamps” convertible into war bonds  Patriotic war songs reached a large public through phonograph recordings USAGE OF PROPAGANDA