Chapter 11, Section 2 America Tips the Balance of Power Objectives: • Described how the U.S. mobilized for the war. • Summarize U.S. battlefield successes. • Identify the new weapons and the medical problems faced in WWI. • Describe U.S. offensives and the end of the war.
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Chapter 11, Section 2 America Tips the Balance of Power Objectives: Described how the U.S. mobilized for the war. Summarize U.S. battlefield successes.
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Chapter 11, Section 2America Tips the Balance of Power
Objectives:• Described how the U.S. mobilized for the war.• Summarize U.S. battlefield successes.• Identify the new weapons and the medical
problems faced in WWI.• Describe U.S. offensives and the end of the war.
American Ace –Eddie Rickenbacker
Manfred Von Richtohofen“The Red Baron”
“You’re in the Army Now”
How did the U.S. raise an army?
• 1917 – only 200,000 men in the service• Selective Service Act – May, 1917
– Required men 18 to 45 to register– 24 million registered– 2 million Europe ( most had not attended high
school and 20% foreign born)• Wide acceptance – believed this was the
“war to end all wars”
“You’re in the Army Now”• Selective Service Act
– 24 million register– 2.8 million are drafted– 2 million volunteer– Democratic procedures controlled by local draft
boards• New IQ test shows illiteracy at 25%
– “The military tent will rank next to the public schools among the great agents of democratization,” Teddy Roosevelt.