The Great War for the Doughboy

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The Great War for the Doughboy
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Life for the average soldier

• The AEF had a demographic pattern unique to any
  army in history.
•     37 were unable to read and write.    
  Only 21 of the drafted enlisted men had some
  education beyond grammar school..     10 were
  Black Americans.    52 were country boys.
      39 were first or second generation
  immigrants to America.

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The American Expeditionary Force

• The AEF was led by General John J. Pershing
  (a.k.a. Blackjack Pershing)
• The average American soldier was known as a
  Doughboy

• The American forces were rallied by the George
  M.Cohan song, Over There

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Life in the Trenches
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The Doughboy and his Gear
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A doughboy catches some sleep in the trenches
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The Doughboys Gas Mask
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America Fights the Great War at Home

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The War on the Homefront
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Selective Service

• The Draft
• Lottery System

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Paying for the War

• Liberty Bonds Victory Bonds
• Bond Drives

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Committee on Public Information

• - Led by George Creel
• Coordinated US Propaganda- Sell the War
• Film, Posters, Ads,
• Four-Minute Men
• - Enlisted stars to sell bonds and publicly
  support the war

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Food Administration

• Headed by Herbert Hoover
• Asked Americans to grow food in Victory Gardens
• Encouraged Americans to go without certain foods
  Wheatless and Meatless Days
• Guaranteed farm prices to keep production high

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Protecting Society

1. Espionage Act

II. Sedition Act
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National War Labor board

• - Headed by William Howard Taft
• - Settled differences between workers and
  employers to ensure that no strikes would injure
  the war effort
• - Recruited workers to fill open industrial jobs

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War Industries Board

• Bernard Baruch
• - Coordinated the allocation of raw materials and
  mandated production levels.
• War Industries Board
• Had complete control over the US economy
  
• Raised industrial production 20

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Fuel Administration

• - Promoted the Conservation of Fuel
• - Created Day light Savings Time

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Propaganda Posters

• The Committee on Public
• Information produced many
• pieces of propaganda to
• encourage Americans to support the war.

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This poster appealed strongly to immigrants to
support the war effort America had significant
German and Irish populations who opposed the war
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These posters played on the patriotism of
Americans to support the war
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Women were needed to keep hope alive as well as
the economy runninghence these posters
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Women were a crucial labor force at home, as
represented in this poster
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