Supporting the War by Carter Dewey https://padlet.com/deweycr/t6lj8sldkrjzdfsl Made with a dash of wit en-us 2020-12-02 17:57:19 UTC 2020-12-04 18:07:09 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f970.png What was the War Industries Board?- Carter deweycr https://padlet.com/deweycr/t6lj8sldkrjzdfsl/wish/980961781 The War Industries Board is a government agency created to help businesses convert their factories from producing consumer goods to producing war goods. They could help provide support for companies to produce war goods and they would tell them exactly what they were making and exactly how to do it in the best and most efficient way possible. They were also in charge of getting them the right materials and in an efficient way. They had all the control over the factories so if something was done wrong it was their fault. For example, one thing they did was tell Ford that they needed to produce tanks and vehicles for the war instead of continuing the regular production of its own cars.]]> 2020-12-02 18:05:44 UTC https://padlet.com/deweycr/t6lj8sldkrjzdfsl/wish/980961781 W., Sim. "How did the War Industries Board (WIB), led by Bernard Baruch, prepare the United States for war?" Socratic.org, 15 Apr. 2017, socratic.org/ questions/ how-did-the-war-industries-board-wib-led-by-bernard-baruch-prepare-the-united-st. Accessed 2 Dec. 2020. deweycr https://padlet.com/deweycr/t6lj8sldkrjzdfsl/wish/981008800 A picture of some of the board members]]> 2020-12-02 18:14:55 UTC https://padlet.com/deweycr/t6lj8sldkrjzdfsl/wish/981008800 What was rationing?- Carter deweycr https://padlet.com/deweycr/t6lj8sldkrjzdfsl/wish/985118124 Rationing was how we would take certain amounts of our food and designate it for the soldiers and leave the civilians with a limited amount of food forcing them to adjust their eating habits and specifically to save food because otherwise there wouldn’t be enough for everybody. During World War 1, the food administration was tasked with getting the soldiers food to fight in the war, so to do that, they would advertising things like “Meatless Tuesdays” that would help save some of the food that could survive a trip overseas for the soldiers. Thus the soldiers would get food because the people in America were saving some for them.]]> 2020-12-03 18:42:01 UTC https://padlet.com/deweycr/t6lj8sldkrjzdfsl/wish/985118124 Schumm, Laura. "Food Rationing in Wartime America." History.com, 23 May 2014, www.history.com/news/food-rationing-in-wartime-america. Accessed 3 Dec. 2020. deweycr https://padlet.com/deweycr/t6lj8sldkrjzdfsl/wish/985127209 An example of a ration book that would be used to track how much food you could buy in a period of time.]]> 2020-12-03 18:43:48 UTC https://padlet.com/deweycr/t6lj8sldkrjzdfsl/wish/985127209 What was the Fuel Administration?- Carter deweycr https://padlet.com/deweycr/t6lj8sldkrjzdfsl/wish/985206545 The Fuel Administration was designed to keep the sources of fuel in the U.S. relatively inexpensive and keep them available. They would try to keep this fuel from being used in nonessential ways. For example, they would shut down unneeded businesses some days during the winter so they didn’t consume this fuel. For most of the war thought the Fuel Administration was trying to prioritize getting the fuel to where it was going more than saving it from unnecessary use. They helped the war by getting the military the fuel they needed in the fastest and most efficient way possible.]]> 2020-12-03 18:59:21 UTC https://padlet.com/deweycr/t6lj8sldkrjzdfsl/wish/985206545 "World War I Agencies." u-s-history.com, u-s-history.com/pages/h4302.html. Accessed 3 Dec. 2020. deweycr https://padlet.com/deweycr/t6lj8sldkrjzdfsl/wish/985233098 A poster encouraging them to buy coal now so they can send the rest for military use.]]> 2020-12-03 19:04:40 UTC https://padlet.com/deweycr/t6lj8sldkrjzdfsl/wish/985233098 What was the Railroad Administration? deweycr https://padlet.com/deweycr/t6lj8sldkrjzdfsl/wish/985306368
  • The Railroad Administration was created to keep the railroads afloat and make them more efficient. They divided the railroads into three parts and made it easy to get where you were going in the quickest way possible. They stopped a lot of unnecessary travel and bought about $380 million dollars worth of railroad cars and steam engines. They were disbanded after the peace treaty was signed and the railroad companies got back their property.


    • ]]>     2020-12-03 19:19:31 UTC https://padlet.com/deweycr/t6lj8sldkrjzdfsl/wish/985306368     History.com Editors. "U.S. Government Takes over Control of the Nation's Railroads." History, A&E Networks, 5 Nov. 2009, www.history.com/ this-day-in-history/u-s-government-takes-over-control-of-nations-railroads. Accessed 3 Dec. 2020. deweycr https://padlet.com/deweycr/t6lj8sldkrjzdfsl/wish/985327844 2020-12-03 19:23:50 UTC https://padlet.com/deweycr/t6lj8sldkrjzdfsl/wish/985327844 What was the Food Administration? Jay jensenjr https://padlet.com/deweycr/t6lj8sldkrjzdfsl/wish/986811058
  • The food administration was a volunteer-based organization led by Herbert Hoover that helped teach people about food preservation and helped the government ration the food out to citizens. The reason for this rationing and preservation of food was so that they could feed the soldiers that were fighting overseas and help to feed their allies. This organization and their volunteers used trains to travel around bringing awareness to the people and trying to collect these donations of food for the war and these soldiers. While they were taking these donations, they were also teaching how to save and preserve food.

  • “The U.S. Food Administration, Women, and the Great War: The Pennsylvania Food Conservation Train.” Google Arts & Culture, 4 Dec. 2020, artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/the-u-s-food-administration-women-and-the-great-war-the-pennsylvania-food-conservation-train-u-s-national-archives/ogKSCGsEff-WIg?hl=en.




    • ]]>     2020-12-04 07:08:25 UTC https://padlet.com/deweycr/t6lj8sldkrjzdfsl/wish/986811058     What is a victory garden? Explain, in detail, how it was used to support the war. Jay jensenjr https://padlet.com/deweycr/t6lj8sldkrjzdfsl/wish/986817175  
    • A victory garden is, simply put, a backyard garden. It’s sole purpose was to feed the residents within each individual home so they had extra food to send overseas to help the war effort. Farmers were growing as much crop as they could to support the people within America and the people serving in the war. The government was eventually forced to ration the food and the victory garden was a way for American citizens to be interdependent in their food source. Having victory gardens helped increase the amount of food that could be sent to the soldiers in the war and ultimately fed and helped the war carry on in it’s efforts.

      “The U.S. Food Administration, Women, and the Great War: The Pennsylvania Food Conservation Train.” Google Arts & Culture, 4 Dec. 2020, artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/the-u-s-food-administration-women-and-the-great-war-the-pennsylvania-food-conservation-train-u-s-national-archives/ogKSCGsEff-WIg?hl=en.


    ]]>     2020-12-04 07:13:25 UTC https://padlet.com/deweycr/t6lj8sldkrjzdfsl/wish/986817175     What were liberty bonds? Explain, in detail, what its intended purpose was. Jay jensenjr https://padlet.com/deweycr/t6lj8sldkrjzdfsl/wish/986823318
  • Liberty bonds were an effort to raise money for the war during 1914. These Liberty bonds were documents that gave you a 3.5% interest rate and sometimes a 4% interest rate. Many investors wanted this deal because it was a better investment than a current savings account and they could ultimately get their money back in various ways of payment, sometimes even gold.

    Sutch, By Richard. “Liberty Bonds.” Federal Reserve History, 4 Dec. 2020, www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/liberty-bonds.



    • ]]>     2020-12-04 07:18:32 UTC https://padlet.com/deweycr/t6lj8sldkrjzdfsl/wish/986823318     How much did WWI cost?- jay jensenjr https://padlet.com/deweycr/t6lj8sldkrjzdfsl/wish/986825370
  • World War 1 ended up with 9 million soldiers dead and led to about 5 million civilians dead. The war cost around $186 billion in direct costs and another $151 billion in indirect costs,  WW1 overall cost about $337 billion dollars. This war had many losses both in money and in lives and the cost of World War 1 was insurmountable.

    “Digital History.” Overview of World War I, 4 Dec. 2020, www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraid=12&smtid=1.



    • ]]>     2020-12-04 07:20:19 UTC https://padlet.com/deweycr/t6lj8sldkrjzdfsl/wish/986825370     Define Mobilization. How did mobilization help support the United States in WWI?jay jensenjr https://padlet.com/deweycr/t6lj8sldkrjzdfsl/wish/986828289

    • Mobilization is the government preparing supplies and obtaining more troops to help the war effort. This was a major support to the war because during mobilization they produced supplies for the war to help their soldiers have enough equipment, and had many more troops they gathered to fight. The government would mobilize the workforce and factories to produce more troops and more materials to send off to war and helped in many different ways..



    “WW1 Mobilization: US History for Kids ***.” WW1 Mobilization, 9 Jan. 2018, www.american-historama.org/1913-1928-ww1-prohibition-era/ww1-mobilization.htm#:%7E:text=Troops%20were%20needed%20for%20the,to%20further%20the%20war%20effort.


    ]]>     2020-12-04 07:22:42 UTC https://padlet.com/deweycr/t6lj8sldkrjzdfsl/wish/986828289     How much of the cost of WWI was funded through liberty bonds?- Carter deweycr https://padlet.com/deweycr/t6lj8sldkrjzdfsl/wish/987410833
  • U.S. citizens bought about $21 billion worth of liberty bonds and that funded about 2/3rds of the war!

    • ]]>     2020-12-04 13:33:02 UTC https://padlet.com/deweycr/t6lj8sldkrjzdfsl/wish/987410833     Every Liberty Bond is a Shot at a U-boat. www.visitthecapitol.gov/exhibitions/ artifact/every-liberty-bond-shot-u-boat-buy-liberty-bond-poster-ca-1917. Accessed 4 Dec. 2020. deweycr https://padlet.com/deweycr/t6lj8sldkrjzdfsl/wish/987413731 A propaganda poster trying to get people to buy liberty bonds]]> 2020-12-04 13:33:57 UTC https://padlet.com/deweycr/t6lj8sldkrjzdfsl/wish/987413731