[207] Baden immediately sought an armistice with Wilson, with the Fourteen Points to serve as the basis of the German surrender.[208] House procured agreement to the armistice from France and Britain, but only after threatening to conclude a unilateral armistice without them.[209] Germany and the Allied Powers brought an end to the fighting with the signing of the Armistice of 11 November 1918.[210] Austria-Hungary had signed the Armistice of Villa Giusti eight days earlier, while the Ottoman Empire had signed the Armistice of Mudros in October. By the end of the war, 116,000 American servicemen had died, and another 200,000 had been wounded.[211]

Home front
Main article: United States home front during World War I
Liberty Loan drive in front of City Hall, New Orleans. On City Hall is a banner reading "Food will win the war—don't waste it".
Women workers in ordnance shops, Pennsylvania, 1918
With the American entrance into World War I in April 1917, Wilson became a war-time president. The War Industries Board, headed by Bernard Baruch, was established to set U.S. war manufacturing policies and goals. 