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Home Front

Home Front. Building up the Military. Selective Service Act WWI was the 1 st war in which the government imposed conscription (the draft) Men were called to serve by lottery Volunteers. Building up the Military. African Americans 369 th Infantry: received France’s highest medal of honor

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Home Front

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  1. Home Front

  2. Building up the Military • Selective Service Act • WWI was the 1st war in which the government imposed conscription (the draft) • Men were called to serve by lottery • Volunteers

  3. Building up the Military • African Americans • 369th Infantry: received France’s highest medal of honor • Women • Army Nursing Corps

  4. Organizing Industry • War Industries Board • Encouraged companies to use mass production to increase efficiency

  5. Organizing Industry • Food & Fuel Administration • Most successful program during the war • “Food will win the war- Don’t waste it” • Slogan encouraged Americans to observe Wheatless Mondays

  6. Organizing Industry • Daylight Savings- to conserve energy during war

  7. Paying for the War • Victory Bonds • Allowed the U.S. government to borrow money with these for the war

  8. Mobilizing the Workforce • National War Labor Board • Prevented strikes from disrupting the war effort • Women join the workforce

  9. Mobilizing the Workforce • Great Migration • African Americans moved from S. to N. looking for jobs • Mexican Americans • Migrated North and settled in barrios

  10. Great Migration

  11. Ensuring Public Support • Selling the War • Committee on Public Information • Duty of “selling” the war to the people • “Four-Minute Men” • Gave 4 minute speeches on war topics

  12. Civil Liberties Curtailed • Sedition and Espionage Acts • Effectively silenced criticism of war at home • Led to the deportation of thousands of immigrants

  13. Climate of Suspicion • Anti-German Sentiment • When WWI broke out, many German traditions/culture were done away with or re-named in U.S.

  14. Supreme Court • Schenck v U.S. (1919) • Freedom of Speech could be limited in wartime

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