Government mobilizes war effort
Selective Service Act: In May 1917, this act authorized a draft of young men to serve in the military. Around 2.8 million Americans were drafted into the armed forces during the war.
The Council of National Defense: This was formed in August 1916 to set up agencies that helped regulate phases of the war effort.
War Industries Board: Headed by Bernard Baruch, the WIB was created to oversee industries that played a role in the war effort.
Committee on Public Information: The CPI informed people on the war.
Espionage Act: This act was passed in 1917 to allow postal services to ban treasonable or seditious printed material.
Women: Women played the most significant role in the war effort on the homefront. They took over male jobs in factories and worked to produce weapons. They also took over services to aid wounded soldiers. They worked as nurses in hospitals.
Propaganda: The media promoted the war effort and raised nationalism in the U.S.
Liberty bonds: loaned money to the government to fight the war
The Council of National Defense: This was formed in August 1916 to set up agencies that helped regulate phases of the war effort.
War Industries Board: Headed by Bernard Baruch, the WIB was created to oversee industries that played a role in the war effort.
Committee on Public Information: The CPI informed people on the war.
Espionage Act: This act was passed in 1917 to allow postal services to ban treasonable or seditious printed material.
Women: Women played the most significant role in the war effort on the homefront. They took over male jobs in factories and worked to produce weapons. They also took over services to aid wounded soldiers. They worked as nurses in hospitals.
Propaganda: The media promoted the war effort and raised nationalism in the U.S.
Liberty bonds: loaned money to the government to fight the war
Social changes
Women: Women took over the workforce and proved they could do the work men could do. They were they backbone of the war effort and proved themselves worthy of suffrage.
African Americans: African Americans supported and fought in the war. The wartime industry also provided new opportunities in the workforce, which caused African Americans to move up North. This was known as the Great Migration.
Mexican Americans: Mexicans crossed the border in search of living better lives, looking for jobs, and starting a ranch.
African Americans: African Americans supported and fought in the war. The wartime industry also provided new opportunities in the workforce, which caused African Americans to move up North. This was known as the Great Migration.
Mexican Americans: Mexicans crossed the border in search of living better lives, looking for jobs, and starting a ranch.
Peace
The idea behind Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points was "peace without victory." This meant Wilson wanted the war to result with freedom and peace rather than the U.S.'s acquisition of territory.
During the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, which was held to settle the end of WWI, Woodrow Wilson suggested his Fourteen Points. The Fourteenth point called for the formation of a League of Nations. The League of Nations was supposed to be a group of countries who would settle disputes peacefully with one another. However, Wilson's idea of a League of Nations did not win support at home, nor from the U.S. Senate. They did not support it because it went against isolationist principles by calling for the U.S. to play a more significant role in global affairs. Woodrow Wilson could not convince the Senate to approve of the League of Nations, which ultimately led to the rejection of the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles.
During the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, which was held to settle the end of WWI, Woodrow Wilson suggested his Fourteen Points. The Fourteenth point called for the formation of a League of Nations. The League of Nations was supposed to be a group of countries who would settle disputes peacefully with one another. However, Wilson's idea of a League of Nations did not win support at home, nor from the U.S. Senate. They did not support it because it went against isolationist principles by calling for the U.S. to play a more significant role in global affairs. Woodrow Wilson could not convince the Senate to approve of the League of Nations, which ultimately led to the rejection of the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles.