Impact of WWI on Homefront and Foreign Policy: Liberty Bonds, Labor Disputes, Social Change

1. “Back Home”12.4

2. Back Home • Funding the war • Liberty Bonds $20 billion raised • Price Controls • Rationing • “Food will win the war.” • Daylight savings time

3. Liberty Bonds

4. Liberty Bonds

5. War Trade Board • Licenses trade with foreign countries • Punishes companies suspected of dealing with the enemy.

6. War Labor Board • Settled labor disputes that might interfere with the war effort • Very anti-union • Supported by Samuel Gompers

8. Back Home • Espionage Act • Illegal to interfere with draft • Sedition Act • Illegal to obstruct sale of LB’s • Illegal to say anything bad about the USA

9. Sedition – Political Radicals • Eugene Debs • 10-year jail sentence for criticizing the government • Newspapers • Mailing rights of 45 were revoked within 1 year

10. Alien Act • Imposed a Literacy test for immigrants • Passed over Wilson’s veto

12. Affects of the war… • Women • Women find work on farms, factories and offices • The war seemed to bring about major social change

13. African and Mexican Americans • Companies that had once refused to hire minorities now actively recruited them for work

14. Immigration • WWI virtually stopped the flow of immigrants from Europe

15. What does Wilson Want?

16. What do European leaders want?

17. 14 Points • This was Wilson’s plan. • Contains plan for theLeague of Nations

18. Reparations • Other Allies demanded reparations from Germany. • “War guilt” left many bitter • Germans initially refuse to sign the treaty • France threatens them

19. The “Irreconcilables”

20. Wilson’s Crusade • Wilson needs approval of Congress  DIFFICULT • US tour • 36 speeches in 3 weeks • Stroke & paralysis

21. US Ends War • Congress rejected the Treaty of Versailles • Separate peace w/ Germany after Wilson leaves office(1921) • Never joined League of Nations