1. Warm Up 3/13 Take the paper up front. Once done reading and marking
Highlight any sentences/phrases that talk about specific events we have covered in class.
Out to the side of these highlights, write the event that is being talked about.
Once done reading and marking
Flip to the back of the paper
Create a drawing for each of the four underlying causes of WWI (MANI)

2. World War I at Home
Focus Questions: How did WWI affect Americans at Home? How did the role of the government change in WWI?

3. Immigrants Germans faced anti-immigrant attacks
People with German last names lost their jobs
Schools stopped teaching German language
Orchestras refused to play music of German artists
Hamburger renamed Salisbury Steak or Liberty Steak
Dachshunds renamed “liberty pups”

4. Women Moved in to jobs previously held by men
Railroad Workers, Cooks, Bricklayers, Coal Miners
Worked in Red Cross facilities
Planted “victory gardens”

5. African Americans
Great Migration: large scale movement of hundreds of thousands of Southern blacks to cities in the North.
Wanted to escape discrimination
Also drop in European immigration led to new job opportunities in factories in the North for African Americans

7. Government Agencies Purpose: to draft men into army
Selective Service Commission (Selective Service Act)
Purpose: to draft men into army
1st draft in US History!

8. Government Agencies War Industries Board Bernard Baruch is leader
Purpose: decided what products factories would make to help support War.

9. Why would this be important?
Government Agencies
National War Labor Board
Purpose: to help prevent conflict between employees and bosses
Why would this be important?

10. Government Agencies Food Administration
Could control prices, oversee exports, tell farmers to grow more crops.
Purpose: to help with rationing food

11. Meatless Mondays and Wheatless Wednesdays!

13. Government Agencies Committee on Public Information
-George Creel was leader
-Purpose: to produce PROPAGANDA!
Definition: Information that is spread for the purpose of promoting a cause.

14. How did the government limit personal liberties?
Espionage & Sedition Acts
Created to keep people from speaking out against the War
Eugene Debs, the leader of the American Socialist Party, is put in prison under this act.

15. Schenck v. United States, 1919
Charles Schenck published pamphlets (writings) protesting the draft.
Schenck was arrested under the Espionage Act.
He appealed to Supreme Court because the 1st amendment gives the right of free speech!
Supreme court ruled in times of war, the government may limit free speech

16. Common Objectives of Wartime Propaganda
Recruiting Soldiers
Making $$ to help with war effort
Unifying the Country
Conserving Resources (food, oil, and other things needed for war)

17. Common Tools of Wartime Propaganda
Demonization: shows the enemy as evil
Emotional Appeal
Name Calling: encourages hatred of enemy
Patriotic Appeals
Catchy Slogans
Half-Truths or Lies
Visual Symbols
Humor or Caricatures.

22. Propaganda Posters
With your partner, create a propaganda poster, using the given technique, to convince the American people to support the war.
You must use the given technique
You can choose to target food rations, working, or fighting
You must include a slogan

23. Schenck v. US Read the description of the court case.
Write in a minimum of three sentences, whether or not you agree with the courts ruling.
Write in a minimum of three sentences, whether you think a court case like this could take place in the present, and do you think the same ruling would apply?