Civillian Life and Wommen
During WW1 civilian life became almost under the complete control of the goverment as each nation realized that to keep up the war effort they needed to have a smotthly flowing supply line. This caused countries to take hold of their home economies often being flexible with the age boundaries for war cervice and lengthening the time to complete military service. Because they took grip of their economies goverments began to issue longer working hours, issued wage and price controls and at one point even restrictec the movement of workers while watering down alchohol such as to keep workers concentrated when they came back from their lunch break. On another perspective though while the goverment took most of the male portion of their populations for the war effort they allowed for wommen to barge into the workforce and hold down factory jobs among others to support the armies. This later incouraged women to seek more rights.
Mrs. Helen Fairchild
she was born on the 21st, of Novemrber on 1885 in Pensylvanya and graduated as a nurse from Pensylvaya Hospital on 1913. She voluntered to go support the war effort along with 63 other nurses one month after america declared war on April, 6th, 1917 and was on duty as an active nurse on May 7th, 1917 on Flanders during the battle of Passhendaele and carried out her work swiftly and efficiently until it was discovered that she had a large ulcer under her pylorus through an X-ray. Suspicion had aroused because she had a history of abdominal pains after meals and by christmas had been throwing up after everysingle one. She went through gastro-enterostomy operation and improved in health until dying in a coma on January, 18th, 1918.
Propaganda & the War
Propaganda was used in rich amount during the war to incourage civilians that the war was good, and that the brave men fighting it were better. It ofcourse left out the completely groosome experiences of being in actual combat includig trench warfare, and incredible amount of casualties. Propaganda at the time varied from news articles (as the goverment controled the media), to posters, and movies which were in many cases faked with staged scenes that were well accepted, and supported. Propaganda was not in all times peaceful though as most countries simply depicted their enemy as barbarians, rapists, and merceless savages which more than likely scared the populations of what could happen should the individual war efforts fail. The following examples of propaganda incourage women to play their part in the war working for the soldiers supplies, and Uncle Sams poster simply seeks to gain capable men for the war's front lines or efforts basicaly saying "Join the army!".