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“OVER THERE” BY GEORGE M. COHAN
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UNIT 4 - DAY 2
“OVER THERE”
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LET’S FIRST TAKE A LOOK AT
AMERICA’S
MILITARY
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RAISING AN ARMY
Only 200K men in army, trainees had no real weapons to train with
The American military was under-manned and ill-equipped for WWI
SELECTIVE SERVICE ACTrequired young men to register for military service via a draft lottery
mass productionfactories converted assembly lines to make military goods in great #sCONVOY SYSTEMnavy destroyers escorted cargo ships, cutting losses to sub attacks in half
24 mil registered, 3 mil were called, army remained segregated
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led by Gen. John “Black Jack” Pershing, these ”Doughboys” were sent to France
In the end, the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) was ready for combat!
New Weaponsera of mechanized warfare begins w/ tanks, airplanes, machine gunshorrors of war
the AEF fought as a separate army from the other allied forces
AMERICANS IN THE FIGHT
AMERICAN HEROISM
Naive US soldiers suffered “shell shock”, trench foot, trench mouth, dysentery
alvin york, eddie rickenbacker
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now, what about
WAR ON THE
HOMEFRONT
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wilson sent his powers to various agencies
To deal w/ unprecedented war needs, Congress gave POTUS new economic powers
applied price controls to inputs, kept costs low, oversaw
reduction in waste & mass prod.
THE WAR ECONOMY
WAR INDUSTRIES BOARD (WIB)
rationed gasoline & coal, instituted “Daylight saving time”
Fuel administration
Urged days w/o wheat, meat, sugar, & encouraged “Victory
Gardens”
food administration improved factory conditions, banned child labor, settled labor disputes by threatening to send
workers to the war
National war Labor Board
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however, the wealth was unevenly divided
America grew enormously wealthy during the war
high demand for war supplies meant high prices, big sales, huge profits
prosperity during wwi
corporations
stock values rise 1000s of %
with high prices, farmers made profits, bought more land, planted more crops
farmers
wages ROSE, income ROSE, but prices SPIKED, so families didn’t benefit much
average americans
% Inc
rease
0%
Inflation
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920
income
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also...
ATTACK ON
CIVIL
LIBERTIES
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American society turned on its own and its Constitution during the war
Anti-immigrant hysteriaeastern Europeans (germanic) faced suspicion of treachery, faced prejudice
espionage and sedition actsmade it illegal to criticize the government and/or war effortlike Alien/Sedition Acts (1789), these acts violated 1st Amendment
INTOLERANCE & SUSPICION
german music/food/books were banned, German names changed
both laws targeted socialists & labor
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and lastly...
MINORITIES
AND WOMEN
DURING WWI
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SOCIAL CHANGE AT HOMEBoth African-Americans and women were affected greatly by WWI
THE GREAT MIGRATIONblacks were leaving the south & moving to northern cities in millions
women in the workforcew/ men away at war, women filled their factory jobs at lower wagestheir work in blue-collar jobs gave support and credibility to the Women’s Suffrage movement
they filled factory jobs, fled racial discrimination, agricultural servitude
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1) The US military buildup for WWI
2) America’s wartime economy
3) Attacks on civil liberties
CLOSURE
Write THREE things you
learned today about: