AMERICAN HISTORY STUDY GUIDE

5.2 – The Home Front During World War I (223-229)

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Respond with a well supported paragraph (nearly always)                                                                                                                   Skip a line after each item.

A. Mobilizing for War

OBJECTIVE: Analyze how the US government mobilized the public to support the war effort.  

1. Explain how the United States mobilized an army to fight in WWI.  [p 223]

1. Introduction

2. Expanding the Army

1. American Expeditionary Force **

2. John J. Pershing **

3. Selective Service Act

4. draft (aka conscription)

2. Explain how the federal government organized the national economy for WWI.

[p 224]

3. Managing Economic Effects

5. war bonds / victory bonds **

6. Council of National Defense

7. War Industries Board (WIB)

8. Bernard Baruch

9. Food Administration

10. Herbert Hoover

11. victory gardens **

12. Railroad Administration **

13. Fuel Administration **

14. “lightless nights” **

3. Explain how the federal government worked to convince the American people to support the war effort.  [p 224]

4. Convincing the American People

15. Committee on Public Information (CIP)

16. George Creel

17. propaganda **

B. Opposition to the War

OBJECTIVE:  Describe opposition to World War I and how the federal government responded to it.

4. Describe the opposition to US participation in WWI.  [p 225]

1. Introduction

18. pacifists

19. dissent

2. Opposition to the Draft

20. conscientious objector

3. Women Oppose the War

21. Women’s Peace Party

22. Jane Addams

23. Jeannette Rankin

5. Explain how the US government countered opposition to US involvement in WWI.  [p 226]

4. The Federal Government Stifles Dissent

24. Espionage Act

25. Sedition Act

26. Eugene V. Debs

27. Emma Goldman

28. No Conscription League **

29. Schenck v United States (1919)

6. Describe the impact of anti-Germany sentiment in America during WWI.  [p 226]

5. Prejudice Against German Americans

30. The Kaiser, Beast of Berlin

31. liberty measles, liberty steaks, liberty pups

C. The War Changes American Society

OBJECTIVE: Analyze the causes and effects of migration and social changes that occurred during WWI.

7. Create an ideagram to show the impact of WWI on women, African Americans, and Mexican Americans.  [p 227]

• All ideas listed in the right column must be represented with at least one image & text box.
• Use 8 x 11 size paper  [all on one page only]
• Use historically accurate pictures.

1. Introduction

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2. Women Welcome New Opportunities

32. Army Corps of Nurses

33. 19th Amendment

3. African Americans and the Great Migration

34. W.E.B. Du Bois

34a. The Crisis

35. William Monroe Trotter **

36. Great Migration

37. push-pull factors

4. Mexicans Move North

38. migrant workers

39. barrios