HIST 2057 Chapter : World War I Over Here
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How are people going to feel the urgency and the need to sacrifice and get involved: george creel. Encourages people to support the war by doing radio stories about the horrors of the war, instilling fear in the people. Need to protect ourselves and fight in europe because if not the germans will come to us. Four minute men: trains speakers to go out to community groups, schools, etc, tell people why they need to support the war, 75,000 minute men. Promoting liberty bond drive: war bonds, people help finance the war, gets movie stars, celebrities to have rallies to get people to buy bonds, portray anything german as bad. Everything german has to be rid of. Stop teaching german, no referring to sauerkraut, renaming streets. Police department uses info collected and rounds up suspected peoples (5,000) Against immigrants detain and deport them. Not one person is brought up on charges in court.
