1. Mobilizing the Home Front Propaganda and the War Effort Recruiting soldiers Buying War Bonds Saving Food Contributing to the War Industry (weapons factories) Joining the Red Cross

2. “First Call” the Poster Art of World War I

4. British Recruitment Ad, 1915 following the sinking of the ship “Lusitania”

5. Civic organizations use the media to call for war. Poster from the Mayor’s Committee, New York 1917

7. “Go soldiers and fulfill your role as Christians. Oh gentleman, complete your duty to your fatherland and earn your place in Heaven.” German recruitment poster, 1914

8. “Committee on Public Information” established as the nations first propaganda agency.

9. About two-thirds of all war financing came from the selling of “war bonds” to the public.

14. U.S. Food Administration poster, 1917

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17. Life on the Home Front Women join the war effort

18. French Women Factory Workers

19. German women factory workers

20. Russian Women Soldiers

21. Working in the Fields

22. A Woman Ambulance Driver

23. Red Cross Nurses

24. Women in the Army Auxiliary

25. Spies  “Mata Hari”  Real Name: Margareetha Geertruide Zelle  German Spy!

26. BBC Video: The Changing role of Women

27. Fighting in the Great War Trench Warfare –Most of the fighting occurred in man-made trenches –Video: Gallipoli, The Trenches Scene –gallipoli interactive mapgallipoli interactive map Christmas truce –Christmas 1914, fighting stopped for a day –Video: The Christmas Truce

28. Weapons and New Technology Machine Guns Chemical Warfare –Mustard gas –Video: All quiet on the Western Front

29. French Renault Tank

30. British Tank at Ypres

31. U-Boats

32. Allied Ships Sunk by U-Boats 1917-1918

33. The Airplane “Squadron Over the Brenta”Max Edler von Poosch, 1917

34. Curtis-Martin U.S. Aircraft Plant

35. The Zeppelin

36. Flame Throwers Grenade Launchers

37. Mustard Gas Machine Guns

38. Reading Material World War I US entry into WWI worksheet + questions (see blog)