Home front Of World War 1

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 Selective Service Act was passed to:

• encourage conservation of select resources
• establish a formal quota system on immigrants
• increase troop numbers through a lottery system draft
• encourage home front support 

One of the ways that Women contributed to the Home Front during the war was

• Taking up work in munitions factories

• Becoming farmers out West

• Enlisting in the US Army

• Staying at home and minding the children

One of the ways everyday citizens could contribute to the war was by

• Making their own weapons

• sewing clothes

• planting "Victory Gardens" to help conserve important foods

• cleaning out warehouses

One of the primary ways the US funded WWI was through the sale of

• Passports

• War Bonds

• Alcohol & Tobacco

• Loans from Great Britain

Which of the following is a requirement for the draft?

• You had to be at least 20 years old (they change it to 18 at a later time)

• You had to be a male.

• Every male must register for the draft.

• All of the above.

This was the act of saving food during World War 1.

• Selling food to the military.

• Sharing food with everyone.

• Rationing .

The purpose of rationing was to:

• Make sure that everyone got enough food.

• To provide more food for the soldiers and our allies.

• To make sure the homeless got enough food,

• All of the above.