Changes on the Homefront May 1917 Selective Service Act 3 million men called to military service Converted all shipbuilding to military service US soldiers called doughboys brought enthusiasm to the war ID: 379085
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The Great War Rages OnSlide2
Changes on the Homefront
May 1917: Selective Service Act: 3 million men called to military service
Converted all shipbuilding to military service
US soldiers called “doughboys” brought enthusiasm to the warSlide3
Weapons
Tanks
Airplanes
Observation Balloons
“mechanized warfare”Slide4
Problems for Soldiers
Shell Shock
Trench Foot
Trench MouthSlide5
The End of the War
1917: Russia pulled out of the war b/c of problems at home
US stopped Germans in France
Nov. 1918: A-H surrendered, German soldiers: mutiny, Kaiser resignedSlide6
The End of the War
Armistice: 11/11/18 at 11 am
Totals: 20 million dead, 20 million wounded, 10 million refugeesSlide7Slide8
In Flanders Fields, John McRae
In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields
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Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.Slide9
“Gassed,” John Singer Sargent