World War 1

The Homefront

Do you remember?• How WW 1 started?• The archduke of Austria was shot by a Serbian

nationalist.• Who sunk the Lusitania?• German U-Boats• What the Zimmerman Telegram was?• The Germans tried to get the Mexicans on their

side.• Which side the US fought with in 1917 and 1918?• The Allied side: England, France and Russia

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What do you think?

• Should the US have remained neutral in WW 1 or was it right to have entered the war?

The Home Front

• In a war there is the battle front where soldiers fight.

• The home front are the civilians at home who are helping the war effort.

• They work in factories that make weapons.• They grow food for the troops.• The support the war effort by buying war

bonds.

New Opportunities

• Sometimes war provides new opportunities for people.

• During WW 1 many women took jobs outside the home to fill in for men who were in Europe fighting.

• African Americans traveled north during the Great Migration, to work in the war industries.