Fear God and Take Your Own Part was a followup to Theodore Roosevelt's 1915 book, America and the World War. That earlier book was a collection of writings by Roosevelt in late 1914, after war had broken out in Europe.
In Fear God and Take Your Own Part, Roosevelt wrote about the response of the United States to German aggression during the war, in particular the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915, which caused the deaths of many United States citizens.