The Home Front

Essential Question

What was the role of the home front during the war?

BUILDING A MILITARY

•Army was small

•Selective Service Act of 1917

•Volunteers

Who Else Volunteered

• African Americans

• Women

Mobilizing

• War Industries Board (WIB)

• Victory Gardens

• Daylight Savings

• Power to regulate price and rationing

Propaganda

• Committee on Public Information (CPI)

• Ran by George Creel who recruited advertisers to produce posters, speeches, and many other forms of propaganda.

Liberty and Victory Bonds

National War Labor Board(NWLB)

• Women- took this opportunity take industrial jobs.– These jobs were not permanent and many

return to their old jobs after the war.

• Great Migration– African Americans: 300 to 500 thousand

moved to northern cities– Mexican Americans: migrated into the

Southwest and Midwest.