Fight or Buy Bonds: Mobilizing the American Economy for World War I

Many of the World War I posters included in the Fight or Buy Bonds exhibit address the challenges of mobilizing the American economy to meet the needs of the war and ask the public to accept the burdens. Even though American involvement in the war was much shorter than that of the European powers, the conflict made unprecedented demands on the economy. It was the first major war to be fought simultaneously on land, at sea, and in the air…