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World War I American Home Front. Propaganda on the Home Front. - Sort each of the posters into 4-5 categories based on similarities (audience, purpose, tone, etc.) - On separate sheet, record the reason you grouped those posters (2-3 bullets/sentences). Home Front Propaganda. Finance
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Propaganda on the Home Front - Sort each of the posters into 4-5 categories based on similarities (audience, purpose, tone, etc.) - On separate sheet, record the reason you grouped those posters (2-3 bullets/sentences)
Home Front Propaganda • Finance • Conserve • Produce at home • Enlist • Women’s efforts
New Agencies • War Industries Board (1917) • Lots of power—gave out raw material, told what and how much to produce, and set prices • War Trade Board • Licensed foreign trade • Punished companies suspected of dealing with the enemy
Financing the War • Liberty Bonds—special war bonds • Raised $20 billion • Boy & Girl Scouts • Committee on Public Information • Famous actors led rallies • Speeches before events
Regulating Food & Fuel • Lever Food and Fuel Control Act (1917)—gave president power to manage food and fuel • Rations • Gasless Days • Daylight Saving Time
Enforcing Loyalty • Info controlled by gov’t (censorship) • Banned movies • Films and pamphlets explained war aims • Example slogans: “Buy Bonds till it hurts” and “The soldier gives-you must lend”
Fear the Foreigners • Fear of German secret agents • Limits on immigration • Nativism revival
“Hate the Hun” • Hun = nickname based on people who had brutally invaded Europe • H.S. stopped teaching German • Changed language • German measles liberty measles • German shepherds police dogs • Frankfurters hot dogs • Sauerkraut liberty cabbage • Lynching of German-born citizens
Repression of Liberties • Espionage Act (1917) - illegal to interfere with the draft • Sedition Act (1918) - illegal to obstruct sale of bonds or to discuss anything disloyal or profane about American gov’t
Changing Lives • African Americans • The Great Migration moved north for jobs in manufacturing • Women • Joined the labor force
Home Front Efforts Create propaganda posters to represent the efforts made for the war back in America.