World War 1 context

Question 1

How did US get involved

Answer 1

Become directly invilved after declaring war on Germany on April 6, 1917

• Over 116,000 American servicement were lost in the war
• War represented the climax of the Progresive era as it sought to bring and democracy to the world

Question 2

Food

Answer 2

• United States Food administration under Herbert Hoover
• Launched large campaign to teach Americans to economise on their food budgets and grow gardens in their backyards for famiily consumption
• total cost of the war was $37 billion, enermous economic and financial stress

Question 3

Women

Answer 3

• They took job roles that were traditionally assigned to men
• Worked on assembly lines - Afircan American women were employed for the first time
• However, they were still seen as housewives

Question 4

Propaganda

Answer 4

• Through photographs, movies, rallies, press reports and public meeting they saturated the public with propaganda
• American patriotism and Anti-German sentiment to the younger generation

Question 5

What is the Espionage act of 1917 and Sedition Act of 1918

Propaganda

Answer 5

Outlawed any criticism of the government/war efforts
20 years in prison

Question 6

What did African Americans have to grow through?

Answer 6

Segregation in the war trenches

• Conditions were poor
• Did not improve

Question 7

Readjustment period

Answer 7

• Unemployment
• Lots of strikes
• Race riots
• Elected a republican to return to “normalcy”

Question 8

Literary context

Answer 8

• War changed the way people spoke about life
• Realities of the war revealed the frivolous nature of sheer entertainment and opened questions about life and death
• Shifted from light hearted, carefree to the bitter remembrance and outlooks of a generation who now knew prain and suffering on a massive scale

Question 9

Lost generation

Answer 9

Loss of grand narratives due to the atrocities of war