USA in World War I

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USA in World War I

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Food Administration

• Herbert Hoover was in charge of Food
  Administration
• Food needed to supply Allies
• When USA entered war, Great Britain only had a
  six-week supply of food left

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• Congress did NOT pass laws regarding food
  administration
• ALL food conservation measures were voluntary
• Advertising PromotionsPersuasive gimmicksmade
  Americans feel like they were part of the
  solutionjust as important as the soldiers
• Wheatless Mondays
• Meatless Tuesdays
• Sweetless Thursdays
• Gospel of the Clean Plate
• Hooverize your plate
• Wasting food was considered hurting US soldiers
  and allies

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VICTORY GARDENS
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War Industries Board

• WIB was a government agency intended to regulate
  industry
• Make sure we had EVERYTHING we needed when we
  needed it
• Increase output and efficiency
• Bernard Baruch was in charge

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War Industries Board

• Oversaw ALL aspects of industrial production
• Set pricesoften allowing large profits for
  companies
• You could be forgiven if you paid too much to
  get the stuff, but you could never be forgiven if
  you did not get it and lost the war.
• Bernard Baruch

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Financing the War

• WW I would cost the United States about 33.5
  billion
• 7 billion of this was in loans to the Allies
• Over 2/3 of the cost of the war was financed by
  borrowingWAR BONDS
• Steeply graduated income tax covered the rest

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The Great Migration

• The Army took so many men from the workforce that
  unemployment disappeared and wages rose
  dramatically in industry
• Poor southern blacks looking for economic
  opportunity and an escape from the repression in
  the southMOVED NORTH IN RECORD NUMBERS
• 500,000 BETWEEN 1914-1919
• NY from 92,000 152,000
• Detroit from 5,700 41,000

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Other Issues

• Propaganda and Civil Liberties
• George Creel Committee on Public Information
• United effort
• Progressive Reform
• Largely came to an end due to focus on the war
  and need for industrial output

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AEF
American Expeditionary Force United States
military force sent to Europe in World War I.
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General John J. Pershing Nickname Black
Jack General of the AEF
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