WORLD WAR I
CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WAR
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National War Labor Board
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War Industries Board
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Committee on Public Information
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League of Nations
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Detailed explanation-1: -The War Industries Board (WIB) existed from July 1917 to December 1918 to coordinate and channel production in the United States by setting priorities, fixing prices, and standardizing products to support the war efforts of the United States and its allies.
Detailed explanation-2: -Under the War Industries Board, industrial production in the U.S. increased 20 percent. The vast majority of the war material, however, was produced too late to do any good. The War Industries Board was decommissioned by an executive order on January 1, 1919.
Detailed explanation-3: -Wilson created the War Industries Board to help industry set priorities and conserve materials. The Board fixed prices for certain commodities and directed the changing of peacetime goods manufacturing to wartime goods. Headed by Bernard Baruch, this was the most powerful of Wilson’s wartime agencies.
Detailed explanation-4: -Baruch as its chairman. Drawing authority from the Overman Act of 1918 granting the president the power to coordinate government agencies during the war, Wilson also established the WIB as a decision-making body separate from the CND, marking a major step in its development.
Detailed explanation-5: -General Hugh Johnson, a veteran of the War Industries Board and friend of Baruch, was put in charge.