A Call to Arms:Mobilizing America for World War I

The colossal mobilization effort required to  build and equip a military that was all but nonexistent before the war leads to an unprecedented scale of mobilization to create, outfit, transport, and supply huge armies, navies, and air forces on so many distant and disparate fronts.

“It is not the army we must get is shape for the war, it is the nation”

Planning, promoting and paying for America’s involvement in World War I

The American Experience - The Great War [CLIPS]

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Selective Service Act of 1917  [Planning for the war]

Military mobilization - General population; Ballston Boys enlist 

Sacco and Venzetti as draft dodgers

Financing the War   “Work or Fight” 

Government oversight [Planning and promoting]

George Creel Committee on Public Information

Bernard Baruch  War Industries Board 
 

Herbert Hoover  Food Administration

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 African Americans  

 Native Americans

 Women 

http://www.newhorizonsgenealogicalservices.com/ww-roll-of-honor/saratoga-county.htm

https://www.nationalguard.mil/News/Article/1673678/armistice-left-some-new-york-guard-soldiers-with-mixed-feelings/

Comparing 1917 with 1941 

World War I [WIP Links]

http://exhibitions.nypl.org/africanaage/essay-world-war-i.html