US History - WW1 - Study Guide Chapter 19 Section 3
War Industries Board (WIB)
Encouraged factories to mass produce and eliminate waste
Espionage and Sedition Acts
Federal agents could tap telephones and open private mail
Effects of (WIB) on Women
No corsets, low cut shoes, shorter hemlines
National War Labor Board
Organization to improve working conditions & ban child labor
Purpose of Government Propaganda
Sold the war to the people by promoting patriotism and manufactured hate.
Job opportunities the War gave women
bricklaying, shipbuilding, delivery trucks, coal mining
Attacks on Civil Liberties after the war began
Americans with German names lost jobs, orchestras didn't play Mozart, Bach & Beethoven, schools didn't teach German and books by German authors removed from libraries
Effects of the international flu epidemic
500,000 people died in US - 40 million world wide
Propaganda
Information shared with people that is not really true in order to make them believe a certain way.
Irony of the war to make the world safe for democracy
Limited American's free speech and free press
Reasons for the "Great Migration" of people of color
To escape Jim Crow laws, racial discrimination, floods, and droughts and to get factory jobs in the North
Methods to produce and conserve food
Victory Gardens & meatless, sweetless and wheatless days
