1917-1918

The Home Front

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President Wilson“It is not an army that we must shape and train for war, it is a nation.”

War Industries Board Railroad AdministrationFood Administration

Increased agricultural productionRecruited labor/organized laborCommercialization

Financing war - Liberty Bonds

Economy

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Women – suffrage, prohibition19th Amendment (1920)African Americans – jobs in the North/race riots

New Opportunities

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Espionage ActSedition Act

Suppressing Dissent

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Selective Service Act (1917)American Expeditionary Force – intervention in war:

Bolsheviks in RussiaTrench warfare in Argonne ForestNew weapons and strategies

TOTAL WAR

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Isolationism or Intervention?Wilson’s Fourteen

PointsLeague of NationsTreaty of Versailles

Insert map of the changed boundaries from the Treaty of Versailles

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