Mobilizing the Home FrontPropaganda and the War Effort

• Recruiting soldiers• Buying War Bonds• Saving Food• Contributing to the War Industry

(weapons factories)• Joining the Red Cross

“First Call” the Poster Art of World War I

British Recruitment Ad, 1915 following the sinking of the ship “Lusitania”

Civic organizations use the media to call for war.

Poster from the Mayor’s Committee, New York 1917

“Go soldiers and fulfill your role as Christians. Oh gentleman, complete your duty to your fatherland and earn your place in Heaven.”

German recruitment poster, 1914

“Committee on Public Information” established as the nations first propaganda agency.

About two-thirds of all war financing came from the selling of “war bonds” to the public.

U.S. Food Administration poster, 1917

Slide #1 1Slide #2 Slide #3 Slide #4

Slide #5 Slide #6 Slide #7 Slide #8

Life on the Home Front

Women join the war effort

French Women Factory Workers

German women factory workers

Russian Women Soldiers

Working in the Fields

A Woman Ambulance Driver

Red Cross Nurses

Women in the Army Auxiliary

Spies “Mata Hari” Real Name:

Margareetha Geertruide Zelle

German Spy!

BBC Video: The Changing role of Women

Fighting in the Great War• Trench Warfare

– Most of the fighting occurred in man-made trenches

– Video: Gallipoli, The Trenches Scene– gallipoli interactive map

• Christmas truce– Christmas 1914, fighting stopped for a day– Video: The Christmas Truce

Weapons and New Technology

• Machine Guns• Chemical Warfare

– Mustard gas– Video: All quiet on the Western Front

French Renault Tank

British Tank at Ypres

U-Boats

Allied Ships Sunk by U-Boats 1917-1918

The Airplane

“Squadron Over the Brenta”Max Edler von Poosch, 1917

Curtis-Martin U.S. Aircraft Plant

The Zeppelin

Flame Throwers

Grenade Launchers

Mustard Gas

Machine Guns

Reading Material World War I

US entry into WWI worksheet + questions (see blog)