ENLISTMENT. How are these posters trying to influence Americans to enlist into the military?

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4 ENLISTMENT How are these posters trying to influence Americans to enlist into the military?

5 The Most Fam ous Recruitm ent Poster

6 Selective Service Act Congress passed in 1917 to meet need for more fighting power. Act required men to register with the government in order to be randomly selected for military service. By end of 1918, 24 million men had registered under the act & 2 million troops reached Europe.

7 1917 Selective Service Act 24,000,000 men registered for the draft by the end of ,800,000 men served in WW1 (2,000,000 saw active combat). 400,000 African-Americans served in segregated units. 15,000 Native-Americans served as scouts, messengers, and snipers in non-segregated units.

8 Uncle Sam He the Man!

9 Don t M ess with the U.S.

10 Huns (Germ an Soldiers)KilW omen and Children!

11 The Little Soldier

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13 SONGS OF WWI Explain how this song supports or opposes the war? Who do you think might be the intended audience for your song troops, or people on the home front? How can you tell?

14 World W ar IAm erican Anthem

15 Johnnie get your gun, get your gun, get your gun, Take it on the run, on the run, on the run, Hear them calling you and me, Every son of liberty. Hurry right away, no delay, go today, Make your daddy glad to have had such a lad, Tell your sweetheart not to pine, To be proud her boy's in line.

16 Over there, over there Send the word, send the word over there That the Yanks are coming, the Yanks are coming, The drums rum-tumming everywhere So prepare, say a prayer Send the word, send the word to beware We'll be over, we're coming over, And we won't come back till it's over, over there!

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18 CouncilofNationalDefense The Council of National Defense was a U.S. organization formed during World War I to coordinate resources and industry in support of the war effort, including the coordination of transportation, industrial and farm production, financial support for the war, and public morale.

19 PROPAGANDA Look at the propaganda posters created by the Federal Government to support the war effort and pick one of the posters and explain how the Federal Government is trying to influence Americans to support the war effort and how?

20 U.S.Food Adm inistration

21 U.S.Food Adm inistration

22 U.S.Food Adm inistration

23 U.S.Shipping Board

24 U.S.FuelAdm inistration

25 U.S.FuelAdm inistration

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27 WOMEN After looking at the posters, how were women encouraged to help out America during WWI? Give at least 2 ways.

28 Munitions Work

29 The Girls They Left Behind Do Their Bit!

30 Women Used In Recruitm ent Helo,Big Boy!

31 Even Grandm a Buys Liberty Bonds

32 The Red Cross -Greatest Mother in the World

33 The Red Cross Nurse

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35 MORE PROPAGANDA Who was the mad brute and Hun portrayed in the posters? What do you think Liberty Bonds were and why do you think Americans were encouraged to buy them?

36 The M ad Brute

37 Beat Back the H un

38 The M enace ofthe Seas

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40 ATTACKS ON CIVIL LIBERTIES This section explains two acts passed by Congress in 1917 and 1918, How do you think these acts violated the First Amendment?

41 Governm ent Excess & Threats to the CivilLiberties ofam ericans 1. Espionage Act forbade actions that obstructed recruitment or efforts to promote insubordination in the military. - fines of up to $10,000 and/or up to 20 years in prison.

42 Governm ent Excess & Threats to the CivilLiberties ofam ericans 2. Sedition Act it was a crime to speak against the purchase of war bonds or willfully utter, print, write or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about this form of US Govt., the US Constitution, or the US armed forces or to willfully urge, incite, or advocate any curtailment of production of things necessary or essential to the prosecution of the war with intent of such curtailment to cripple or hinder, the US in the prosecution of the war.

43 SECURING THE PEACE What do you think Woodrow Wilson meant from his statement made in July 1917, England and France have not the same views with regard to peace that we have by any means. When the war is over we can force them to our views of thinking, because by that time they will, among other things, be financially in our hands. Why do you think it would be a struggle for Wilson to get Congress (and people at home) to ratify (approve) the treaty that he was hoping to create in Paris? Why do you think Britain and the United States did not want to see the peace conference held in Paris?