World War I Home Front!
America was thrown into the war because of Germany's aggression towards unarmed peaceful ships. before for roughly 170 years america was trying to stay out of the world and not get involved. They thought that trading was the most things they could do, anything more was untolerated.
World war one began by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife while visiting the city of Sarajevo. World war one consisted mostly of trench warfare where the sides would dig in and every now and again rush the enemy trenches. It usually ended up being a slaughter. Eventually Italy joined the Allies and gave them the upper hand over the central powers.
At this time the U.S. was deploying multiple agencies in order to help the war effort. The war industries board was a U.S. government agency that was established in July 28 1917 in order to manage weapons and war supplies. The Federal Mobilization Agencys(there was a lot of them) was when the nation would have the civilian population help with the war such as care packages, manufacturing, sewing, and food preperation. It consisted mostly of women since they weren’t aloud to join the military and they wanted to help with the war. National War Labor Board was a federal agency created by President Woodrow Wilson in April 8th 1918 in order to help the relationship between workers and employers. It was disbanded after the war. An agency called the committee on public information(PBI) was created by the U.S. in order to influence U.S. public opinion about the Americans being in world war one, which they wanted them to support.
food was being wasted because with the opportunities opening up people usually made a lot of food and couldn't eat it all so they would throw it away and the soldiers on the front needed food, they would run low on it a lot. Hoover Slogan “Food will win the war, don’t waste it!” Food was rationed which means the soldiers would only get some food everyday in order to save the food as long as possible The Victory Gardens were a vegetable and herb garden in United states, England, Germany, and Canada in order to reduce the war effort of trying to get enough food for the soldiers on the front.
The U.S. increased the taxes and started to draft people into the military. They also started war bonds which was a way for civilians to send money to the war effort and in the end they would get their money back plus a little extra. Liberty Bonds were a war bond in the United States given specifically to the Allies for aid. Victory Bonds were war bonds from Canada.
At this time women couldn't join the military so they helped by working the factories and making the weapons and the bullets and everything that the Allies used on the front.
The Great Migration was a movement where a huge portion of the population from the African Americans moved to the southern states. During the war America couldn’t focus on the nation as much as the war so the economy was going down and African Americans couldn’t find jobs so they moved. Mexican Americans migrate North because of the same reason as the Great Migration. The only difference was that they were moving south. The war effort was taking a lot out of the United States and people were losing jobs and they were getting less and less pay. Strikes broke out and people were starting fires and getting out of control.
During the war people were appreciative and glad that the women and African Americans were helping anyway they could but after the war they went back to being discriminated and still didn't have rights. They were ridiculed and people lost the gratitude they once had for them.