US History › Section L · The Great War and the 1920s › Topic L.2
The United States prepares for war
Declaring war was the easy part. To fight in Europe, the federal government had to raise an army, feed and supply it, pay for it and win over a divided public, and it grew more powerful than ever before in doing so.
In this topic
- A country unready for war
- The draft
- Refusing to serve
- Food and fuel
- Organising industry and the railways
- Paying for the war
- Worked example: reading a recruiting poster
- Selling the war
- Laws against dissent
- Worked example: Schenck v. United States (1919)
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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