WWI - The War at Home

Please read Chapter 19-3 (pg 594)

What were some things accomplished by the following wartime agencies and laws?

1. War Industries Board: encouraged companies to use mass-production techniques to increase efficiency.

2. Railroad Administration: controlled the railroads

3. Fuel Administration: monitered coal supplies and rationed gasoline and heating oil. People adopted "gasless Sundays" and "lightless nights" to conserve fuel. Introduced daylight savings.

4. National War Labor Board: it was either you worked or you would fight in the war. Also worked to improve factory conditions.

5. Food Administration: to help produce and conserve food.

6. Committee on Public Information: persuaded people to do things. For example they created paintings, posters, cartoons, and sculptures promoting the war.

7. Espionage and Sedition Acts: a person could be fined up tp $10,000 and sentenced 20 years in prison for interfering with the war effort or for saying anything disloyal, profane, or abusive about the government or the war effort.

Briefly explain why Bernard M. Baruch and George Creel are significant historical figures.
Bernard M. Baruch reorganized the war industries board and was the leader. George Creel was the head of the CPI.