WWI - Lesson 2 - The Home Front

Life did not change

Many more women began working outside the home in jobs traditionally held by men.

More women worked in government jobs.

Women were more represented in governemnt.

Hundreds of thousands of African Americans left the Deep South for industrial jobs in the North. In Northern cities, these members of the “Great Migration” could vote and had greater civil rights.

More African Americans had to join the Coast Guard

Life did not change

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to help forge alliances with neutral countries so that America would have allies

to foster cooperation between the national war effort and private businesses

to monitor events in Europe and use this information to direct troop movements

to convince the American public, including its 8 million German immigrants, to support the war effort

to produce war propaganda

to build a naval fleet

to coordinate the production of war materials

to harvest natural resources

Lusitania

Sussex

Titanic

USS Maine

Guerrilla Warfare

Blitzkering

Standard Warfare

Trench Warfare

America

Canada

Britain

Mexico

Central Powers

Allied Powers

Netural