#9 Flashcards
What was the problem of organizing civilian labor?
Increased labor, decreased workers
What did mobilizing for “total war” create?
- Created centralized agencies charged with supervising nationwide activity of:
- food administration
- US Railroad Administration
- Aircraft Production Board + Emergency Fleet Corporation
When men go to war what do women do?
Woman enter into the workforce
When organizing civilian labor what else arose?
National War Labor Board
What is the Selective Service Act?
Authorized the right to DRAFT regardless of:
- wealth
- ethnicity
- social standing
What in the army end up doing?
Segregating black soldiers from white
What were the living conditions of people who lived in the trenches?
Terrible:
- filled with mud, blood, urine, shrapnel, body parts
- men’s feet rotted
- lead to death
- dugouts
What caused trench foot?
By the damp water close to freezing temperatures
What was trench Fever?
Similar to typhoid + influenza
What did soldier eat in the trenches?
Beef, bread, tea and sometime veggies
What was paying the bills like?
High debts
Increased taxes (especially in the wealthy)
Rest came from sale of “liberty bands”
How did people get support?
Committee of Public Information 1917
–CPI message: deep love of country + sense of participation in grand democratic experiment
What were the political changes?
2nd revolution in Russia took it out of the war
Hurt the allied cause military + politically
What prevented war? (wartime repression)
- CPI: called on people to report on others
- German-Americans took the biggest hit
- 1917 immigrant restriction
- 18th amendment 1919 –no alcohol
- Espionage, Sabotage + Sedition Acts
What did Wilson’s 14 points do?
- Made in a speech to Congress on January 8, 1918
- Gave the allies an idealogical boost
- written to assure the country that the great war was being faught for a moral cause in for postwar peace in Europe
- these points would later become the basis for the terms of the German surrender
