Why Did The Us Enter Ww1

The United States entered the war late on April 6th 1917, it had to quickly ramp up its efforts to supply troops and ammunition to the front. Training camps started popping up all throughout the country to meet the demand. A draft was put in place to generate enough men to go over and fight. There was a social cry for war, many people hopped on the bandwagon to help out anyway they could. The United states had to quickly mobilize their forces deploying, a draft and creating many pop up training camps throughout the country as well as converting factories from commercials goods to munitions. Many men flocked to enlist after the U.S joined the war. However the number on men that volunteered did not merely meet the number of men required to fight.
Its goal was getting Americans to back the war and help in any way they could. Propaganda was controlled by the Committee of Public information. The committee sent speakers around the country to make to insight nationalistic views in the people. They hired hundreds of writers artists and speakers to achieve their goals of rallying as many people behind the war effort as possible. Along with speakers they put up posters to show the people that the enemy was the devil and wrote articles about heroes to make the people feel we were winning the war. There motto was “100% Americanism”(infobase). This motto put American nationalism into a two word
Two of the most important resources during war time. Coal and fuel are needed to fuel vehicles to move the raw materials to the factories and then the munitions to the front. “In order to provide enough fuel for defense industries, the Fuel Administration forced nonessential industries to close on certain days during the winter of 1918”(US History). This move was made to lower the energy usage on the homeland so it could be repurposed to aid the war effort. Many were against this move. This plan was quickly replaced to one that prioritized deliveries of fuel to front instead of restriction homeland use, however it was a step in the right direction to improving the efficiency of the American war machine. The Federal Food Administration was founded to provide adequate food supplies for military needs. It looked over farm production to make sure they were as efficient as possible. It also regulated food prices. The administration asked Americans to plant victory gardens to repurpose the food being produced to the front. People could be self sustainable so they no longer had to live off commerical food. All of the food that was longer being eaten by Americans on the homefront was sent to the soldiers fighting in