1. Good Morning! NVC HOT ROC: WWI Prior Knowledge
Mobilizing America for War
Essential Question: How did the United States prepare for WWI?
Homework: TEST ON FRIDAY!

2. WWI Prior Knowledge Write down everything you know about WWI!
USE YOUR CORNELL NOTES FROM OVER THE WEEKEND!

3. April 1914: The World at War Central Powers Allied Powers
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Ottoman Empire
Allied Powers
Britain
France
Russia
United States
Led by Woodrow Wilson
Neutral/Isolationist
April 1917 joins war on the side of the Allied Powers

4. Why did the U.S. enter WWI? Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
Sinking of the Lusitania
Zimmerman Telegram
German/Mexican Alliance
Economic ties with Great Britain

5. Mobilizing America for War
“It is not an army that we must shape and train for the war…it is a nation”- Woodrow Wilson

6. Mobilizing America for War
Preparation for war resisted by Wilson
“If you want WAR, vote for Hughes. If you want PEACE with honor, vote for Wilson.”
Preparedness Movement
Led by Theodore Roosevelt in 1915
Alarmed that U.S. not ready
Wilson gives in  agrees to double army and navy

7. Selective Service Act
Selective Service Act: also called a draft or conscription
All men ages must register for military service
Allows U.S. to quickly create a large army

8. Committee on Public Information
CPI created to “sell” the war to the public
Massive propaganda campaign
Create movies, posters, etc to demonize the Germans

9. Transforming the Economy for War
WWI leads to Big Government
New programs and agencies to help run the war
Liberty Bonds
People encouraged to buy “bonds” to fund the war
National War Labor Board
Prevents strikes in wartime
U.S. Food Administration
“Food will win the war”
Meatless Mondays and Wheatless Wednesdays to conserve

10. Exit Ticket
What were three changes the United States made to prepare for WWI?

11. New Opportunities Draft sends America’s young men overseas to fight
Leads to new job opportunities for women and blacks
Great Migration: mass movement of blacks from South to work in factories in the North