How the United Stated was influenced/changed by entering the war
Manufacturers had to keep production up to the pace needed to support the war. In order to make more material in a short amount of time, new technologies were made to meet the needs of the government and people. Also more employment chances opened for men and women and African-Americans. In the privation of most of the able-bodied men in America, women became the main population of the factories, and African-Americans migrated to the cities to find jobs. During this time as industry grew, so did the economy. More previously unemployed people held jobs, and the finances of the public.
June 15, 1917, two months after America's entrance into World War 1, against Germany, the United States Congress passed the Espionage Act.
Compelled largely by A. Mitchell Palmer, the United States attorney general under President Woodrow Wilson, the Espionage Act essentially made it a crime for any person to keep information from to interfere with the U.S. armed forces prosecution of the war effort or to promote the success of the country's enemies. Anyone found guilty of such acts would be subject fined of $10,000 and a prison sentence of 20 years.
The term red scare denotes two distinct periods of strong Anti-Communism in the United States: the First Red Scare, from 1919 to 1921, and the Second Red Scare, from 1947 to 1957. The First Red Scare was about worker revolution and political extremists. The Second Red Scare was focused on national and foreign communists influencing society, gaining access to the federal government or both.
The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more than the Great War, known today as World War 1, at somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. It has been cited as the most harmful epidemic recorded in world history. More people died of influenza in a single year than in four-years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague from 1347 to 1351. Known as "Spanish Flu" or "La Grippe" the influenza of 1918-1919 was a global tragedy.
Thirty odd booklets were printed in several languages. Seventy-five million copies were made in America, and many million copies were made abroad. Tours were arranged for the Blue Devils (French soldiers), Pershing's Veterans, and the Belgians, and huge meetings were arranged in many communities. Forty-five war conferences were held. The Four Minute Men controlled the volunteer services of 75,000 speakers, operating in 5,200 communities, and making a total of 755,190 speeches.
With the aid of a volunteer staff of several hundred translators, the Committee supplied the foreign language Press of America with selected articles. It planned war exhibits for the state fairs of the United States, a series of inter-Allied war expositions, and defended millions of dollars-worth of free advertising space from the Press, periodical, car and outdoor advertising forces of the country.
June 15, 1917, two months after America's entrance into World War 1, against Germany, the United States Congress passed the Espionage Act.
Compelled largely by A. Mitchell Palmer, the United States attorney general under President Woodrow Wilson, the Espionage Act essentially made it a crime for any person to keep information from to interfere with the U.S. armed forces prosecution of the war effort or to promote the success of the country's enemies. Anyone found guilty of such acts would be subject fined of $10,000 and a prison sentence of 20 years.
The term red scare denotes two distinct periods of strong Anti-Communism in the United States: the First Red Scare, from 1919 to 1921, and the Second Red Scare, from 1947 to 1957. The First Red Scare was about worker revolution and political extremists. The Second Red Scare was focused on national and foreign communists influencing society, gaining access to the federal government or both.
The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more than the Great War, known today as World War 1, at somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. It has been cited as the most harmful epidemic recorded in world history. More people died of influenza in a single year than in four-years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague from 1347 to 1351. Known as "Spanish Flu" or "La Grippe" the influenza of 1918-1919 was a global tragedy.
Thirty odd booklets were printed in several languages. Seventy-five million copies were made in America, and many million copies were made abroad. Tours were arranged for the Blue Devils (French soldiers), Pershing's Veterans, and the Belgians, and huge meetings were arranged in many communities. Forty-five war conferences were held. The Four Minute Men controlled the volunteer services of 75,000 speakers, operating in 5,200 communities, and making a total of 755,190 speeches.
With the aid of a volunteer staff of several hundred translators, the Committee supplied the foreign language Press of America with selected articles. It planned war exhibits for the state fairs of the United States, a series of inter-Allied war expositions, and defended millions of dollars-worth of free advertising space from the Press, periodical, car and outdoor advertising forces of the country.