1. World War I American Home Front

2. Propaganda on the Home Front
- Sort each of the posters into 4-5 categories based on similarities (audience, purpose, tone, etc.)
- On separate sheet, record the reason you grouped those posters (2-3 bullets/sentences)

3. Home Front Propaganda Finance Conserve Produce at home Enlist
Women’s efforts

4. World War I American Home Front

5. New Agencies War Industries Board (1917) War Trade Board
Lots of power—gave out raw material, told what and how much to produce, and set prices
War Trade Board
Licensed foreign trade
Punished companies suspected of dealing with the enemy

6. Financing the War Liberty Bonds—special war bonds
Raised $20 billion
Boy & Girl Scouts
Committee on Public Information
Famous actors led rallies
Speeches before events

7. Regulating Food & Fuel
Lever Food and Fuel Control Act (1917)—gave president power to manage food and fuel
Rations
Gasless Days
Daylight Saving Time

8. World War I American Home Front

9. Enforcing Loyalty Info controlled by gov’t (censorship) Banned movies
Films and pamphlets explained war aims
Example slogans: “Buy Bonds till it hurts” and “The soldier gives-you must lend”

10. Fear the Foreigners Fear of German secret agents Limits on immigration
Nativism revival

11. “Hate the Hun”
Hun = nickname based on people who had brutally invaded Europe
H.S. stopped teaching German
Changed language
German measles  liberty measles
German shepherds  police dogs
Frankfurters  hot dogs
Sauerkraut  liberty cabbage
Lynching of German-born citizens

12. Repression of Liberties
Espionage Act (1917) - illegal to interfere with the draft
Sedition Act (1918) - illegal to obstruct sale of bonds or to discuss anything disloyal or profane about American gov’t

13. Changing Lives African Americans Women
The Great Migration  moved north for jobs in manufacturing
Women
Joined the labor force

14. Home Front Efforts
Create propaganda posters to represent the efforts made for the war back in America.