1. Aim: What steps were taken by the United States to make its war effort a success? Do Now: Answer the following: What is unrestricted submarine warfare? Why did Germany use it? Provide an example What was the Zimmerman note? What did it say? What event happened in Russia in 1917? What impact did it have on the Allied powers?

2. Reasons for U.S. Entry into WWI German use of unrestricted submarine warfare. Breaking the Sussex pledge Zimmerman note- Many Americans saw this as an attack on the U.S. Communist Revolution in Russia. Hurt Allied Powers- Germany only had to fight a war on one front.

3. President Wilson’s War Message It is a distressing and oppressive duty, gentlemen of the Congress, which I have performed in thus addressing you. There are, it may be, many months of fiery trial and sacrifice ahead of us. It is a fearful, thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in, the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts--for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.

4. President Wilson’s War Message “We are glad, now that we see the facts with no veil of false pretense about them, to fight thus for the ultimate peace of the world and for the liberation of its peoples, the German peoples included: for the rights of nations great and small and the privilege of men everywhere to choose their way of life and of obedience. The world must be made safe for democracy”.

5. What does a nation need to have a successful war effort? An Army Money Production of War Goods Workforce at home Food and Fuel Unity of Public Opinion

6. Selective Service ActSelective Service Act (1917) – required all men from the age of 21 to 30 to register for the military draft World War I – The Homefront · By 1918, approximately 4 million Americans joined the armed forces.

7. The Most Famous Recruitment Poster

8. Uncle Sam—He the Man!

9. Don’t Mess with the U. S.

10. 1917 – Selective Service Act 24,000,000 men registered for the draft by the end of 1918. 4,800,000 men served in WW1 (2,000,000 saw active combat). 400,000 African-Americans served in segregated units. 15,000 Native-Americans served as scouts, messengers, and snipers in non-segregated units.

11. Public Support: · The government raised over $21 billion through the sale of Liberty Bonds. Liberty Bonds

14. Even Grandma Buys Liberty Bonds

15. · The War Industries Board told factories what to produce and the War Labor Board settled labor disputes.War Industries Board Labor: 'Women working in larger munitions factories were known as Canaries because they dealt with TNT which caused their skin to turn yellow. Around 400 women died from overexposure to TNT during World War One. Other hazards were more obvious and minor problems were common.' From the biography of a 'Munitionette', Miss Joan WilliamsMunitionette

16. · Women took over the jobs of men fighting in the war. Woman In a Factory During World War I

17. Examples: “Meatless Monday’s” “Wheatless Wednesday’s” Organizing the War Effort Food: · Americans learned to conserve food for the soldiers.

21. U. S. Food Administration

22. U. S. School Garden Army

23. · In order to support the troops “victory gardens” were grown by people throughout the nation.victory gardens

25. U. S. Fuel Administration

27. The “Mad Brute” In order to encourage Americans to support the war, they began a propaganda campaign. Designed to portray Germany as a monster.

28. Government Excess & Threats to the Civil Liberties of Americans Espionage Act 1. Espionage Act – 1917 - forbade actions that obstructed recruitment or efforts to promote insubordination in the military. - ordered the Postmaster General to remove Leftist materials from the mail. - fines of up to $10,000 and/or up to 20 years in prison.

29. Government Excess & Threats to the Civil Liberties of Americans Sedition Act 2. Sedition Act – 1918 - it was a crime to speak against the purchase of war bonds or willfully utter, print, write or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about this form of US Govt., the US Constitution, or the US armed forces or to willfully urge, incite, or advocate any curtailment of production of things necessary or essential to the prosecution of the war…with intent of such curtailment to cripple or hinder, the US in the prosecution of the war.

30. Government Excess & Threats to the Civil Liberties of Americans Schenck v. US 3. Schenck v. US – 1919 - in ordinary times the mailing of the leaflets would have been protected by the 1 st Amendment. - BUT, every act of speech must be judged acc. to the circumstances in which it was spoken. -The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic. [Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes] - If an act of speech posed a clear and present danger, then Congress had the power to restrain such speech.

31. Over there, over there Send the word, send the word over there That the Yanks are coming, the Yanks are coming, The drums rum-tumming everywhere So prepare, say a prayer Send the word, send the word to beware Over there, over there Send the word, send the word over there That the Yanks are coming, the Yanks are coming, The drums rum-tumming everywhere So prepare, say a prayer Send the word, send the word to beware We'll be over, we're coming over, And we won't come back till it's over, over there! We'll be over, we're coming over, And we won't come back till it's over, over there!

32. Johnnie get your gun, get your gun, get your gun, Take it on the run, on the run, on the run, Hear them calling you and me, Every son of liberty. Hurry right away, no delay, go today, Make your daddy glad to have had such a lad, Tell your sweetheart not to pine, To be proud her boy's in line. Johnnie get your gun, get your gun, get your gun, Take it on the run, on the run, on the run, Hear them calling you and me, Every son of liberty. Hurry right away, no delay, go today, Make your daddy glad to have had such a lad, Tell your sweetheart not to pine, To be proud her boy's in line.

33. Over there, over there Send the word, send the word over there That the Yanks are coming, the Yanks are coming, The drums rum-tumming everywhere So prepare, say a prayer Send the word, send the word to beware We'll be over, we're coming over, And we won't come back till it's over, over there! Over there, over there Send the word, send the word over there That the Yanks are coming, the Yanks are coming, The drums rum-tumming everywhere So prepare, say a prayer Send the word, send the word to beware We'll be over, we're coming over, And we won't come back till it's over, over there!

34. Johnnie get your gun, get your gun, get your gun, Johnnie show the Hun you're a son of a gun, Hoist the flag and let her fly, Yankee Doodle do or die. Pack your little kit, show your grit, do your bit, Yankees to the ranks from the towns and the tanks, Make your momma proud of you And the old Red White and Blue. Johnnie get your gun, get your gun, get your gun, Johnnie show the Hun you're a son of a gun, Hoist the flag and let her fly, Yankee Doodle do or die. Pack your little kit, show your grit, do your bit, Yankees to the ranks from the towns and the tanks, Make your momma proud of you And the old Red White and Blue.