US Home Front Efforts During WWI

US Home-front effort

4 minute
men, gave
speeches
to promote
the war
and efforts
at home.

Enlisted
Soldiers
Moral Support

People/La
bor

Women
and Black
people
stepped
into jobs
that
soldiers
left behind.
Ship
builders
given pass
on draft to
construct
ships. (95
sent in
1918)

Economi
cally

Liberty
Bonds to
help US
fight war.
(nearly 400
per
person!)

Income tax
raise for
wealthy,
tobacco and
liquor taxes.
(1/3 of all
money used
earned
here!)

War
Industries
Board
created to
allocate
resources
towards war
and
maximize
efficiency of
America
during the
war.
(Production
up 80%)

Popular
music
for war.

Rationi
ng

Victory
Gardens,
Meatless Meals,
Gasless Sunday,
and Lightless
Nights.
(Daylight
Saving used to
help too!)

Eliminating
Strikes for
war.

Women gave
up corsettes
for the steel
to build
ships.

Results of the war home-front efforts: Women and Black Citizens were gaining grounds in the public and working fields. US lost
48,000 men in war, 62,000 had disease, and 700,000 would be wounded too. Internationally U.S. Would get the opportunity to
seal its place as a top world power.