National War Garden Commission

(noun)

The National War Garden Commission was organized by Charles Lanthrop Pack in March 1917, to address the decline in war-time food production, which resulted from agricultural labor being recruited into military service and remaining farms devastated by the conflict. The campaign promoted the cultivation of available private and public lands, resulting in over five million gardens and foodstuff production exceeding $1.2 billion by the end of the war.

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Examples of National War Garden Commission in the following topics:

  • The American Rally

    • Victory gardens and the Women's Land Army of America were important contributions to food supplies during World War I..
    • In March 1917, Charles Lathrop Pack organized the National War Garden Commission and launched the war garden campaign.
    • These gardens produced up to 40 percent of all the vegetable produce being consumed nationally.
    • War gardeners, Washington, D.C. or vicinity, circa 1918.
    • Homefront efforts led by women, such as war gardens, were an important part of U.S. entry into WWI.

  • Mobilizing a Nation

    • The coal shortage that struck the nation in December 1917 exemplified the confusion.
    • To keep factories running smoothly, the president established the National War Labor Board in 1918, which forced management to negotiate with existing unions.
    • In March 1917, Charles Lathrop Pack organized the National War Garden Commission and launched the war garden campaign.
    • War gardeners in the Washington, D.C. vicinity, circa 1918.
    • Home front efforts led by women, such as large war gardens and domestic "victory gardens," were an important part of U.S. entry into WWI.

  • French Architecture in the Baroque Period: Versailles

    • The Palace of Versailles was built during King Louis XIV's reign and contains 700 rooms, extensive gardens, and lavish decoration.
    • Louis XIV declared Le Brun the "greatest painter of all time," and Le Brun worked on such notable features of the palace as the Halls of War and Peace, the Ambassadors' Staircase, and the Great Hall of Mirrors.
    • Headed by Andre Le Notre, the gardens at Versailles cover nearly 2,000 acres of land and were executed in the French formal garden style, or jardin a la francaise.
    • The Grande Canal is a notable feature of the gardens, with an impressive length of 1,500 x 62 meters.
    • The Grande Commande is a series of 24 statues that were commissioned by Louis XIV to decorate the gardens.

  • A New Labor Force

    • As one of the first total wars, World War I mobilized women in unprecedented numbers on all sides .
    • President Wilson appointed Gompers to the powerful Council of National Defense.
    • To keep factories running smoothly, Wilson established the National War Labor Board in 1918, which forced management to negotiate with existing unions.
    • War gardeners, Washington, D.C. or vicinity, circa 1918.
    • Homefront efforts led by women, such as war gardens, were an important part of U.S. entry into WWI.

  • Changing Roles for Women

    • Women in World War II took on a variety of roles.
    • In addition, women volunteers aided the war effort by planting victory gardens, canning produce, selling war bonds, donating blood, salvaging needed commodities and sending care packages.
    • Margaret Craighill became the first female doctor to become a commissioned officer in the United States Army Medical Corps.
    • The WAAC, however, never accomplished its goal of making available to "the national defense the knowledge, skill, and special training of the women of the nation."
    • That year, the first female officer of the United States Marine Corps was commissioned, and the first detachment of female marines was sent to Hawaii for duty in 1945.

  • America and WWI

    • Food Administration, the War Industries Board, and the National War Labor Board.
    • Wilson created the National War Labor Board (NWLB) in 1918.
    • This World War I-era poster urged civilians to raise their own food to free up resources for the war effort.
    • "Victory gardens" were encouraged by the U.S.
    • Food Administration, the War Industries Board, and the National War Labor Board.

  • Changing Roles for Women

    • Margaret Craighill became the first female doctor to become a commissioned officer in the United States Army Medical Corps.
    • That year, the first female officer of the United States Marine Corps was commissioned, and the first detachment of female marines was sent to Hawaii for duty in 1945.
    • Captain Anne Lentz was its first commissioned officer, and Private Lucille McClarren its first enlisted woman; both joined in 1943.
    • Nearly a million "government girls" were recruited for war work.
    • In addition, women volunteers aided the war effort by planting victory gardens, canning produce, selling war bonds, donating blood, salvaging needed commodities, and sending care packages.

  • Mobilization and the Development of the West

    • In all, 350,000 American women served in the U.S. military during World War II.
    • Margaret Craighill became the first female doctor to become a commissioned officer in the United States Army Medical Corps.
    • A total of 6,520 African-American women served during the war.
    • Captain Anne Lentz was its first commissioned officer and Private Lucille McClarren its first enlisted woman; the first detachment of female marines was sent to Hawaii for duty in 1945.
    • Women volunteers aided the war effort by planting victory gardens, canning produce, selling war bonds, donating blood, and salvaging needed commodities.

  • Providing National Security

    • National security, a concept which developed mainly in the United States after World War II, is the protection of the state and its citizens through a variety of means, including military might, economic power, diplomacy, and power projection.
    • using counterintelligence services or secret police to protect the nation from internal threats.
    • It is responsible for providing national security intelligence assessments, performed by non-military commissioned civilian intelligence agents, to senior U.S. policymakers.
    • The White House National Security Council is the principal forum used by the President for considering national security and foreign policy matters with his senior national security advisers, and Cabinet officials.
    • the Central Intelligence Agency, responsible for providing national security intelligence assessments

  • The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

    • The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a non-binding declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948, partly in response to the barbarism of World War II.
    • The UDHR was framed by members of the Human Rights Commission, with Eleanor Roosevelt as Chair, who began to discuss an International Bill of Rights in 1947.
    • The members of the Commission did not immediately agree on the form of such a bill of rights, and whether, or how, it should be enforced.
    • A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established after World War II in order to prevent another such conflict.
    • During World War II, the Allies adopted the Four Freedoms—freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from fear, and freedom from want—as their basic war aims.