Mobilization & The Home Front
What was the name of the American military force sent to Europe in World War I?
The American Expeditionary Force (AEF)
What was the main way the U.S. government financed World War I, besides taxes?
Selling Liberty Bonds
This 1917 law restricted freedom of speech and allowed censorship of mail during WWI.
The Espionage Act of 1917
This was President Wilson’s plan for postwar peace and a new international organization.
What were the Fourteen Points and the League of Nations?
This 1919 amendment started Prohibition in the United States.
What was the Eighteenth Amendment?
This law required young American men to register for possible military service in 1917.
The Selective Service Act
Who was the head of the War Industries Board, which coordinated manufacturing for the war?
Bernard Baruch
This Supreme Court case upheld restrictions on free speech during wartime.
What was Schenck v. United States?
The U.S. Senate refused to ratify this postwar organization, leading to American isolationism.
What was the League of Nations?
This constitutional amendment granted women the right to vote in 1920.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
Who led the Committee of Public Information, the government’s propaganda agency during WWI?
George Creel
What was the result of the U.S. lending large sums to the Allies during the war?
The U.S. became a creditor nation.
This 1918 act made it illegal to criticize the government, flag, or Constitution during WWI.
What was the Sedition Act?
This term describes the fear of communism that swept the U.S. after WWI.
What was the Red Scare?
This car manufacturer revolutionized mass production with the assembly line.
Who was Henry Ford?
This government agency was responsible for food production and conservation at home.
The Food Administration
What did the Fuel Administration encourage Americans to conserve?
Coal and gasoline (fuel)
This socialist leader was imprisoned for making an anti-war speech in 1918.
Who was Eugene Debs?
This organization, led by Carrie Chapman Catt, supported the war and helped win women the right to vote.
What was the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)?
This new medium brought news, music, and advertisements into American homes during the 1920s.
What was radio?
Name two ways women contributed to the war effort on the home front.
Took industrial jobs, volunteered as nurses, sold war bonds, joined the Red Cross, etc.
What organization resolved labor disputes and supported the eight-hour workday during the war?
The War Labor Board
During WWI, this group of Americans migrated from the South to Northern cities in search of industrial jobs.
Who were African Americans (The Great Migration)?
How did the economic power of the United States change relative to Europe and the rest of the world in the aftermath of World War I?
After World War I, the United States emerged as the world’s leading economic power.
What was the Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural, social, and artistic movement that took place in the 1920s, centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City.