Total War
Mobilize the entire population
Governments mobilized large segments of their populations. Men of all classes were recruited as soldiers. Women began to do the work men left behind and also joined the war effort as nurses and other . The colonies also joined the war. Europeans appealed to the colonies with a sense of duty and patriotism so that they would join in the war effort.
“The women worked as ammunition testers, switchboard operators, stock takers. They went into every kind of factory devoted to the production of war materials, from the most dangerous posts in munition plants to the delicate sewing in aeroplane factories.”
- Alice Dunbar Nelson, American Poet and Civil Rights Activist, on African American women’s efforts during the war, 1918