1. American Power Tips the Balance

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

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

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

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

7. 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

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