Four 86” touch tables let visitors explore the tectonic technological changes that occurred during World War I. Aircraft of World War I features 20 period aircraft, which visitors investigate by pulling flying models from an animated scene. In Maritime!, visitors try to ship goods across the Atlantic while evading enemy ships and submarines. Battlefield Communication challenges visitors to get urgent messages across a battlefield using a choice of tools. And in Uniforms of World War I, visitors browse a selection of Great War uniforms and see how they changed over time.

America’s entry into World War I brought dramatic changes across the nation. After years of careful neutrality, the U.S. dove into a social, political, and industrial transformation to support the war effort. Two 40” touchscreens let visitors explore this upheaval via digitized versions of the museum’s world-class artifact collection. Through photos, news articles, posters, movies, songs, and more, the interactive shows users the how Americans changed their lives to support the war – and how more pacifist-minded Americans risked their freedom to stop it.