US History MOD 7.3

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Chloe Gilbert

Cards (9)

  • The War Industries board encouraged companies to use techniques that increase efficiency
  • Bernard Baruch was the leader of the War Industries board
  • The Committee on Public Information was the nation's first propaganda agency
  • Woodrow Wilson created the committee on public information to encourage people to support the war effort
  • Propaganda is is a kind of biased communication designed to influence people's thoughts and actions
  • George Creel was a former muckraker and head of the committee on public information
  • If you interfered with the war effort or said anything disloyal about the government or the war effort you would be fined and put in jail under the Espionage and Sedition Acts
  • The Great Migration marked a time where many southern African American's moved to the north
  • The flu epidemic killed 500,000 Americans. 30 million worldwide