7.6

• U.S joins WWI due to German aggression

  • unrestricted submarine warfare

    • Lusitania

    • Sussex pledge

  • Zimmerman note/telegram

• Wilson war message: U.S will join only for the purpose of making the world safer for democracy

  • will affect actions at the end of the war

• U.S enters state of total war

  • every aspect of the country is geared towards supporting the war

Economy

• War Industries Board: Sets production goals and priorities, encourages businesses to cooperate instead of competing

• Food Administration: Overseas food production and distribution leads to rationing

• War Labor Board: Workers gain 8 hr. workday, higher wages, increased power of unions

Society

• Selective Service Act: Drafted 2.8 million men during the war

• Women fill roles typically reserved for men: Head of household, farmers, factory workers, drivers, police, etc.

• Great Migration: African Americans move north and west to fill factory jobs and to escape sharecropping and Jim Crow laws

• Mexicans came to U.S seeking job opportunities

• Nationalism, hysteria, nativism leads to restrictions on immigration and attacks on all things German

• Sedition and Espionage Acts: Criminalize protesting the war, draft, war bonds, etc.

Technology

• Battleships or dreadnoughts developed and used

• Germans used submarines

• Airplanes

• Tanks

• Chemical Warfare