The document discusses America's involvement in World War 1 from several angles: 1) It provides lyrics to recruitment songs from the time encouraging young men to join the war effort. 2) It outlines some key statistics about the draft and numbers of Americans who served. 3) It describes several new government organizations and agencies that were formed to mobilize the economy and resources for the war, such as the Fuel Administration. 4) It discusses some of the social impacts of the war at home, including expanded roles for women and opportunities for African Americans, as well as some civil liberties restrictions put in place by the government.

7. Huns Kill Women and Children!”

10. 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,
Ev'ry 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.

11. 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 ev'rywhere
So prepare say a pray'r
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!

12. Johnnie get your gun, get your gun,
get your gun,
Johnnie show the Hun you're a son
of a gun,
Hoist the flag and let her fly,
Yankee Doodle do or die.
Pack your little kit, show your grit,
do your bit,
Yankees to the ranks from the towns
and the tanks,
Make your mother proud of you
And the old Red White and Blue.

15. The Spirit of ’76’

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 ev'rywhere
So prepare say a pray'r
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!

18. 1917 – Selective Service Act
e 24,000,000 men registered for
the draft by the end of 1918.
e 4,800,000 men served in WW1
(2,000,000 saw active combat).
e 400,000 African-Americans
served in segregated units.
e 15,000 Native-Americans served
as scouts, messengers, and
snipers in non-segregated units.

20. Council of National Defense
e War Industries Board –
Bernard Baruch
e Food Administration –
Herbert Hoover
e Railroad Administration –
William McAdoo
e National War Labor Board –
W. H.Taft & Frank P. Walsh

21. U. S. Food Administration

22. U. S. Food Administration

23. U. S. Food Administration

24. National War Garden Commission

25. U. S. School Garden Army

26. U. S. Shipping Board

27. U. S. Fuel Administration

28. U. S. Fuel Administration

29. Results of This New
Organization of the Economy?
1. Unemployment virtually disappeared.
2. Expansion of “big government.”
3. Excessive govt. regulations in eco.
4. Some gross mismanagement -->
overlapping jurisdictions.
5. Close cooperation between public
and private sectors.
6. Unprecedented opportunities for
disadvantaged groups.

32. YWCA – The Blue Triangle

33. Munitions Work

34. The Girls They Left Behind Do
Their Bit!

35. Women Used In Recruitment

36. Even Grandma Buys
Liberty Bonds

37. The Red Cross - Greatest
Mother in the World

38. The Red Cross Nurse

39. National League
for Woman’s
Service

41. Opportunities for
African-Americans in WW1
e “Great Migration.”
1916 – 1919  70,000
e War industries work.
e Enlistment in segregated
units.

42. True Sons of Freedom

43. For “Colored” Men in Service

44. African-Americans on a Troop
Ship Headed for France

45. “Rescuing a Negro During the
Race Riots in Chicago”, 1919

47. The “Flag of Liberty”
Represents All of Us!

48. We are ALL Americans!

49. United War Work Campaign

50. American Committee for Relief
in the Near East

52. The Committee of Public
Information (George Creel)
e America’s “Propaganda
Minister?”
e Anti-Germanism.
e Selling American Culture.

53. “Remember Belgium”

54. The “Mad Brute”

55. Beat Back the “Hun”

56. The “Menace of the Seas”

57. Creel Commission Film

59. Government Excess & Threats to
the Civil Liberties of Americans
1. Espionage Act – 1917
- forbade actions that
obstructed recruitment or
efforts to promote
insubordination in the military.
- ordered the Postmaster General
to remove Leftist materials
from the mail.
- fines of up to $10,000 and/or
up to 20 years in prison.

60. Government Excess & Threats
to the Civil Liberties of Americans
2. Sedition Act – 1918
- 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.

61. Government Excess & Threats
to the Civil Liberties of Americans
3. Schenck v. US – 1919
- in ordinary times the mailing of the
leaflets would have been protected by the
1st Amendment.
- BUT, every act of speech must be judged
acc. to the circumstances in which it was
spoken.
-The most stringent protection of free
speech would not protect a man in falsely
shouting fire in a theater and causing a
panic. [Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes]
- If an act of speech posed a clear and
present danger, then Congress had
the power to restrain such speech.

62. Government Excess & Threats
to the Civil Liberties of Americans
4. Abrams v. US – 1919
- majority ruling --> cited Holmes’
“Clear and present danger” doctrine.
- Holmes & Brandeis dissented:
The best test of truth is the
power of the thought to get
itself accepted in the competition
of the market, denying that a
“silly leaflet” published by an
“unknown man” constituted such a
danger.

63. Government Excess & Threats
to the Civil Liberties of
Americans
5. Post-war labor unrest:
 Coal Miners Strike of
1919.
 Steel Strike of 1919.
 Boston Police Strike of
1919.

64. Anti-Labor
“If Capital & Labor Don’t Pull Together”
– Chicago Tribune

65. Coal Miners’ Strike - 1919
“Keeping Warm” – Los Angeles Times

66. Steel Strike - 1919
“Coming Out of the Smoke” – New York World

67. Boston Police Strike - 1919
“He gives aid & comfort to the enemies of
society” – Chicago Tribune

68. Boston Police Strike - 1919
“Striking Back” – New York Evening World

69. Consequences of Labor Unrest
“While We Rock the Boat” – Washington Times

70. The “Red Scare”
“What a Year Has Brought Forth” – NY World

71. “Red Scare” -- Anti-Bolshevism
“Put Them Out & Keep Them Out” –
Philadelphia Inquirer

72. Government Excess & Threats
to the Civil Liberties of Americans
 1919 - 3rd. International
goal --> promote worldwide
communism.
 Attorney General, A. Mitchell
Palmer (The Case Against the
Reds)
 Palmer Raids - 1920
6. “The Red Scare”:

73. Congressman Victor Berger (WI)
You got nothing out of the war except the
flu and Prohibition.

74. “Red Scare” – Palmer Raids
A. Mitchell Palmer’s Home Bombed, 1920

75. Police Arrest “Suspected Reds’ in Chicago, 1920
“Red Scare” – Palmer Raids

76. The American Legion
“The New National Figure” –
Memphis Commercial Appeal

77. Prohibition - 1920
“Merry Christmas!” – The New York World

78. The 1920 Election