WWI Home Front (Chapter 24)

Established to Maintain and regulate the United States economy and war production schedules

• War Advisory Board

• War Administrative Council

• War Industries Board

• War Services Board

information, especially of a biased or misleading nature

• Fake news

• Alternative facts

• Fox television

• Propaganda

To raise money to pay for the war, the government began selling

• Comic books and board games

• Radios and televisions

• Shares in common stock

• Victory Bonds and Liberty Bonds

By buying Liberty Bonds, Americans were

• loaning the government money that would be repaid with interest in a specified number of years

• forcing government to set aside future shares in construction of ships, planes, tanks, and weapons for safekeeping

• sacrificing the ability to stay out of debt in order to win the war

• able to justify the extravagant meals and comfortable clothes our soldiers were promised when they went to France.

The Great Migration was

• A way to get people to mobilize and move heavy equipment to the ocean ports

• Moving supplies to the docks and loading ships to Europe

• A technique to avoid German U-Boats in the Atlantic Ocean

• African Americans left the South to settle in the North to fill the job voids

Function of the War Industries Board in the United States during World War I

• find jobs for mexicans to take factory work

• maintain and regulate the United States economy and war production schedules

• provide education and skills to women so men could fight the war

• allocate and ration food, gasoline, bread, and cotton

The nation's first formal government propaganda agency

• Campaign to Promote Public Awareness

• Selective Services Agency

• Committee on Public Information

• Posters, Banners, and Flyers Board

What was the Sedition Act in May 1918

• An act, signed by Congress to allow free speech

• Permits spying and fraudulent use of government entitlements

• Made it illegal to criticize the president or the government

• Withheld the ability to profit from making wartime supplies

What are the name of the acts that made it illegal to criticize the U.S. involvement in the war or encourage draft resisters

• Espionage and Sedition Acts
• Treaty of Versailles and the Fourteen Points
• the Yalta Agreement and the Treaty of Versailles
• The Espionage Act and the Fourteen Points

Why did the U.S. sell war bonds during the war?

• To control wages and prices
• To raise money for the war
• To rally support for the war
• To conserve scarce resources