World War I Home Front

During times of war what is the "home front"?

• The site of military action and where major battles are conducted.

• Location where troops are loaded on to carrier ships along with supplies.

• The civilian population and their activities. Any aspect of wartime life.

• "Safe zone" from enemy attack. Usually reserved for elderly, women, and children to escape conflict.

Common roles performed by women during WWI

• Aircraft delivery pilots. First time women flew military planes.

• Butchers, Bakers, and Candlestick makers.

• Dentists, Doctors, and animal keepers.

• Clerks, pharmacists, photographers, and nurses.

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

Consequences for people who aided the enemy, such as treason

• Espionage and Sedition Acts

• Treason, Aiding, and Abetting Acts of 1917-1918

• Public reciting of Pledge of Allegiance in town squares

• Being "tarred and feathered" in public

How did World War I affect legal immigrants to the United States?

• They were contracted to build a wall across much of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas

• Many immigrants were suspected of being spies and potential traitors

• Mexicans were forced to migrate to northern cities

• "Okies" from Oklahoma relocated to California

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