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Day 68 War at Home

Day 68 War at Home. Music: Stars and Stripes Forever Homework: 388-403. Power to Wilson. Bernard Baush leads the War Industries Board (WIB) War Production increased 20% “Work or Fight” Food Admin. Rationing through personal morality Victory Garden. Selling War.

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Day 68 War at Home

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  1. Day 68 War at Home • Music: Stars and Stripes Forever • Homework: 388-403

  2. Power to Wilson • Bernard Baush leads the War Industries Board (WIB) • War Production increased 20% • “Work or Fight” • Food Admin. • Rationing through personal morality • Victory Garden

  3. Selling War • Taxes (Income, war profit, tobacco, alcohol) • Victory Bonds • Propaganda • George Creel head of Committee on Public Information- first official propaganda machine

  4. Civil Liberties • Anti Immigrant • Espionage and Sedition Act • 20 years for sedition • Target socialist and labor unions

  5. Social Change • Dubois vs. William Monroe Trotter • “Great Migration”- to the north looking for high wage work • Mexican immigration grows. Agriculture work. • Women and work • Flu Epidemic of 1918 (30 Million Die- 50,000 American)

  6. Summary Questions • What was the nations main wartime regulatory body? • Who reorganized the War Industries board in 1918? • Who was the muckraker who led the Committee on Public Relations? • Under what act could someone be prosecuted for interfering with the war effort? • Where did African Americans go on the great migration?

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