3. Selling The War War Financing
U.S. spent $35.5 billion on the war effort
Money was raised through a progressive income tax (the more you make, higher % of tax you pay – still today), taxes on tobacco, liquor, and luxury goods, and the selling of “Liberty Loans” and “Victory Loan” U.S. saving bonds.
Sum #8

4. Committee On Public Information
The CPI was established as the 1st propaganda agency
The CPI created thousands of paintings, posters, cartoons, and sculptures promoting the war
75,000 men went around the nation speaking about everything relating to the war.
75 million pamphlets were distributed by the Boy Scouts for the propaganda campaign
Propaganda Posters – Designed to stereotype and show negative images of Germans

5. Anti-Immigration Hysteria
Attacks on Civil Liberties Increase
Anti-Immigration Hysteria
- Attacks were focused at German and Austria-Hungary immigrants
People with German last names lost their jobs, towns with German names changed them, schools stopped teaching the German language, violent attacks took place against German-Americans.
Other things tied to Germany were changed:
Hamburger -> “Salisbury Steak” Sauerkraut -> “Liberty Cabbage”

6. Espionage and Sedition Acts
2 Acts passed by Congress in 1917 and 1918
A person could be fined up to $10,000 and sentenced to 20 years in jail for interfering with the war effort or for saying anything disloyal, profane, or abusive about the government or the war effort.
Violated the 1st Amendment
Over 2,000 Americans were prosecuted

7. The War Encourages Social Change
The Great Migration
A large scale movement of thousands of Southern African-Americans to cities in the North
African-Americans left to escape racial discrimination in the South and take advantage of the job opportunities in Northern factories

8. Women moved into jobs held by men who left for the war
Women in the War
Women moved into jobs held by men who left for the war
President Wilson acknowledged the importance of women in the war effort
In response to the respect women gained during the war, the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote was passed by Congress in 1919
Propaganda

9. WWI Poster Analysis 1

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22. Propaganda Analysis Sum # 9
Were these propaganda pieces successful and what emotions were used?