USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR I

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To conserve energy during WWI, which of the following was introduced?

(A) longer days

(B) ** daylight savings time

(C) Hooverizing

(D) corn-based fuels corn-based fuels

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -Daylight-saving time was introduced as a temporary measure during World War I, as a way of conserving energy and providing more usable hours of daylight. Germany was the first to start using it, in 1916. The U.K. followed a few weeks later, and France and the U.S. followed suit.

Concept note-2: -DST was first implemented in the US with the Standard Time Act of 1918, a wartime measure for seven months during World War I in the interest of adding more daylight hours to conserve energy resources. Year-round DST, or “War Time", was implemented again during World War II.

Concept note-3: -Germany was the first country to enact daylight saving time. It took World War I for Willett’s dream to come true, but on April 30, 1916, Germany embraced daylight saving time to conserve electricity.