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American Power Tips the Balance

I. America Mobilizes A. Selective service act- required men to register with the government in order to be randomly selected for military service.

B. Mass Production – -government control of some industries -fabrication techniques -Ship builders exempted from draft

II. America turns the tide Convoy System- a heavy group of destroyers escorted merchant ships back and forth across the Atlantic.

B. New Weapons - Machine gun -Airships and Airplanes -Poison Gas -Tanks

III. The Government Regulates Industry The War Industries Board- Encouraged Mass-Production techniques. National War Labor Board – dealt with strikes. Work or fight! (no strikes) C. Food Administration – conservation campaigns

George Creel’s CPI U.S. Committee on Public Info. The nation’s first propaganda agency

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