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Section 3
Mobilizing for War -Gov’t needed money to pay for the war ($35,500,000,000) -Raised taxes -Sold war bonds (liberty bonds and victory bonds) -Low-interest loans to gov’t -Celebrities helped sell bonds -Used propaganda posters -Conservation -Planted “victory gardens” -Recycled -Wheatless, meatless, and “fuelless” days -War Industries Board -Managed the buying and distribution of war materials -Set production levels and prices -Committee on Public Information -Propaganda board -Movies -The Beast of Berlin -The Claws of the Hun
Intolerance -Germans discriminated against -Sauerkraut = liberty cabbage -Dachshunds = liberty pups -Espionage Act and Sedition Act -Illegal to criticize war effort -Cannot encourage dodging the draft -Schenck v. US -Supreme Court upheld laws -Free speech could be limited in wartime -“Clear and present danger”
New Jobs -African Americans took many jobs left by soldiers -Great Migration -500,000 African Americans moved north -Mexicans took jobs in the southwest (farming) -Women
Flu Epidemic -In 1919, world struck by flu epidemic -20,000,000 worldwide died -500,000 in US
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