WWI the homefront

1. World War I on
the Home Front
A look at how people in America helped win
the war.

2. Objective
• By the end of the lesson, SWBAT
explain how the people on the
home front in America helped the
troops fighting in Europe win
World War I

3. Vocabulary
•Rations - Limits you put on
things.
•Scarcity - Not having an unlimited
supply of something.
•Propaganda - Information that is
used to shape people’s thinking.

4. Lightning Round Review
•How did World War I start?
•Who were the two sides that
were fighting in World War I?
•Why did the U.S. enter World
War I?

5. America Enters the
War
•It is 1917, and America is
beginning to fight in the deadliest
and largest war that has ever
taken place, what sort of supplies
do the soldiers need?

6. Supplies Needed• Weapons Uniforms
• Tanks Ships
• Airplanes A LOT OF THINGS!
• Food
• Gas Masks
• Helmets

8. Supplies• Many of the supplies that were needed
for the war had to come from America.
• But because of scarcity, not having an
unlimited supply, many people had
ration the amount of food and metal
that they used in the United States
during the war so they could provide
enough food and supplies for the
soldiers fighting.

9. Rationing

10. Scarcity

11. Rationing
•Why would people in America
need to ration the amount of
food and metal they ate and
used during the war?

12. Rationing
•To get people to cut down on the
amount of food and metal people
used, the government used
propaganda to persuade or talk
people into rationing and working
harder for the war effort.

14. Propaganda
•Where do we see
propaganda in our lives
today?

16. Propaganda• The government used propaganda
posters to convince people:
• eat less food
• use less money
• worker harder building equipment for the
troops
• THE GOVERNMENT USED
NATIONALISM

17. Supplies
• There were a lot of supplies (guns, tanks,
helmets, uniforms, etc.) that were needed
for the war effort in World War I.
• Many of the men who worked in those
factories before the war, were now fighting
in the war.
• Who worked in the factories while the
men were fighting?

18. Women in the Work
Force• Women had to step in and work in the
factories
• Women filled the spots that were left by
the men and helped make all of the supplies
needed in the war.
• WorldWar I would not have been won if it
were not for the help of women in the
factories who made supplies.

20. Women in the Work
Place
•What was a woman’s role in
society before World War I?

21. Women’s Rights
• Women did not have the right to
vote.
• Women did not work in factories.
• Women did not work anywhere but
in schools or sometimes as
secretaries.

22. Women
• Society’s view of women changed a
lot after World War I.
• Women got the right to vote in
1919 with the 19 Amendment to
the U.S. Constitution.

23. Propaganda Posters
• For each propaganda poster, try to
figure out what the poster is trying to
convince Americans do to help in the
war effort?

24. Poster 1

25. Poster 2

26. Poster 3

27. Poster 4

28. Poster 5

29. Poster 6

30. Poster 7

31. Conclusion
• The U.S. needed to ration the amount of
food and supplies people used during
WorldWar I.
• The U.S. used propaganda to get people
to help out with the war effort.
• Women played a major role in the war by
helping in factories during the war.