...The last key force was America’s involvement in War, which in the short term provided American women with work opportunity typically reserved for males, also paving the way for second wave feminism. Many women began working outside the home for the first time When America entered WWI in 1917, a male labour shortage, meant that women took over traditional male roles while they were at war. The Woman's Land Army of America, brought over 20,000 women to rural America, these "farmerettes" were paid wages equal to male farmers and an eight-hour working day protected them. 11,000 women, served abroad as nurses; others became ambulance drivers. For many, this provided an example of women mobilizing themselves. They challenged conventional thinking about gender roles which celebrated by many e.g. The Los Angeles Times proclaimed "farmettes" were “To turn new earth in history of the...
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...“The Women’s Army Corp (WAC)” Throughout the history of the United States women have served the country during wartime in a capacity that went largely unrecognized or even acknowledged by the military. Women have helped care for soldiers as nurses or cooks, they worked as spies and in the most extreme cases they would disguise themselves as men so they could serve on the front lines of the battle. World War I brought a change to the military as the fighting was now taking place overseas and the need arose for a larger army, women were now able to begin serving a role that would be recognized in the various branches of the military; the Army, Navy, Marines and Coast Guard. These positions were still considered civilian positions and the women did not serve in combat or receive military benefits, instead they served the purpose of enabling the military to send more men to the front lines of the battle overseas while women served as the support staff back home. It was these changes that would later lead to the creation of the Women’s Army Corp during World War II and create a permanent place for women in the United States Army. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 had a profound effect on the American people for many different reasons. There was the loss of life due to the bombing but the main fear arose from the realization that the United States was no longer immune to foreign attack and there was now an increased need for military personnel to...
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...Although women in the United States were granted the right to vote in 1920 with the nineteenth amendment, subsequent world events, such as World War II, and home events, such as the Great Depression, returned women to their previous state of lacking political power and limited social roles. During the middle of the twentieth century, women were expected to adhere to the image of domesticity, to derive satisfaction only from being housewives and mothers. The social pressure to return to a life without the previous problems of the earlier decades, left women believing that their duty was to remain at home and to ensure the best for their families. This led to many women internalizing their frustrations with the lack of choices and independence that...
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...When the United States committed itself to total war after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, men packed their bags and kissed their wives goodbye and headed off to serve in the military. In rush to insure the United States was completely equipped, women quickly swooped out of the kitchen and headed to the factories, hospitals, and in front of the wheel, in place of the men in their absence. World War II gave women a sense of purpose outside their homes; It gave women a chance to live. Patriarchy has confined women into a box. Women lived with three set of rules: produce children, cook, and clean- but the second Great War has given women an opportunity to live like a man. Women had jobs in fields they were always rejected in because of their “fragile...
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...GENDER WAGE GAP INTRODUCTION Nowadays there are a lot of women graduates from universities, master programs and colleges. Also some studies showed that women are doing better in school then men (Buchmann, 2006). So why are women still not getting paid equally as men? We see that the gap is getting narrower and narrower throughout the years. However, pay gap between men and women still exist. After World War II, women were paid 60% of what men paid. This situation got better in 2000s. Studies showed that in 2009, women earn 80% of what men earn after one year they graduate from college (Day and Hill, 2007). Even though women's level of education is getting higher throughout the years, this improvement is not enough to getting pay equally as men. Women are continuing to earn less than men on average, and the convergence is not enough to compensate the gap in the upcoming years. This paper focuses on the worldwide gender pay gap and it gives general insights about the issue. I will try to explain the reasons of the gender pay gap between men and women. At the first part, I will briefly look at the issue historically. I will try to explain the trends of pay gay throughout the years. I will analyze the gender wage gap starting from the post World War II period. At the second part, I will explain some theories and studies about the reasons of gender wage gap. Some theories attribute this situation to “gender-specific”...
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...Significant events World War II through the 1970’s Assignment 3 “World War II through the 1970’s” Tim Truster Professor Michael Curran 26 August, 2012 Abstract My history assignment 3 “World War II through the 1970’s” will identify two major historical turning points during this period and what impact they had on current society, economy, politics, and culture. It will also explain two reasons Americans in the late 1930’s wanted to stay out of the European conflict that became World War II. I will explain the role women played to help win World War II. I will describe two civil rights breakthroughs after World War II that moved the cause of African-Americans forward. An explanation to why the Vietnam War brought political awareness to a new generation of young Americans. Finally two programs under President Johnson’s “Great Society” agenda that are still with us today will be discussed. Two historical turning points during the period of World War II through the 1970’s I will discuss in my paper will be the ending of World War II by defeating Japan and the Civil Rights movement. World War II itself was a major turning point in history. In 1945, Japan was lightly defended against the American attack; huge firebombing of Japanese cities went unanswered. America estimated that an invasion of the Japanese home islands would cost 50,000 American casualties in the first phase of the attack. The battles at Iwo Jima and Okinawa demonstrated the extent to which Japanese...
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...crucial part. Dis author dint understand as why men and women were treated so differently and the empowerment. In the 20th century at the time women were speechless treated differently and dint had rights as same as men there was no equality between men and women, so women dint had many choices. Virginia was born on January 25,1882 in London. Were she graduated at kings college London. Virginia had multiples mental break downs through out her life some that affected her writing as and English publisher author at the end of her life. Her first break down was on 1895 after her mother Julia, dies due to a rheumatic fever....
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...Name: Course: College: Tutor: Date: To What Degree Did World War II Affect the American Society? World War II occurred between 1939 and 1945. It led to many developments, some of them positive, others negative. One of the effects of World War II in America is that it led to deaths of many Americans. Among these were soldiers and civilians. Some of them were shot while at the war front. Others died due to the harsh environment of the war. According to Somerville (2008) the war left about 418,500 Americans died. This was about 0.32% of the total population. World War II was the highest in position terms of cost in U.S. history with costs over $350 billion and more than 292,000 American military men killed in action. The war also led to the destruction of properties worth billions of shillings. It was an enormous blow to the American economy, although not as much as other countries suffered (Kenneth, 2007) World War II changed the American social structure in a number of ways which included the empowerment of women especially in the workforce. Also many minorities groups got more jobs beside the discrimination by the rich Americans. Also the divorce rate increased and many families were weakened. World War II did affect almost every sector and aspect of American life. The decade of economic hardship is clearly marked to be 1930's. In 1930, the Great Depression got deep, and millions of American citizens were forced out of their jobs. Americans had too little money to provide...
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...The United States went through a major transformation between the period starting with World War II and ending in the 1970’s. Two major turning points that changed America as well as the entire world forever were the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the moon landing of Apollo II in 1969. On August 6th, 1945, the first atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese industrial city of Hiroshima. The intent of President Harry Truman was simple: He wanted to end the war, end it decisively and end it without a large amount of American casualties. It was determined by the President and his military commanders that a full-blown ground invasion of Japan could risk the loss of up to one million American lives. The atomic bomb, however, could bring the war to a swift end with minimal loss of American life. After the first bomb, nicknamed “Little Boy” was dropped, Japan refused to surrender. Three days later, America dropped the second atomic bomb, “Fat Man” on the city of Nagasaki. The following day, Japan offered its surrender to the Unites States. These bombings had both positive and negative effects within the United States and abroad. On one hand, the American allies saved many lives by avoiding a full blown ground invasion of Japan. They also sent a message to the international community that they had the firepower necessary to defend or destroy. They also had the scientific knowledge to create a weapon of mass destruction. Internationally, the killings...
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...Jamie Johnson War through the 1970’s History 105 Professor Nowak Strayer University June 2, 2013, 2013 The United States went through a major transformation between the period starting with World War II and ending in the 1970’s. Two major turning points that changed America as well as the entire world forever were the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the moon landing of Apollo II in 1969. On August 6th, 1945, the first atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese industrial city of Hiroshima. The intent of President Harry Truman was simple: He wanted to end the war, end it decisively and end it without a large amount of American casualties. It was determined by the President and his military commanders that a full blown ground invasion of Japan could risk the loss of up to one million American lives. The atomic bomb, however, could bring the war to a swift end with minimal loss of American life. After the first bomb, nicknamed “Little Boy” was dropped, Japan refused to surrender. Three days later, America dropped the second atomic bomb, “Fat Man” on the city of Nagasaki. The following day, Japan offered its surrender to the Unites States. These bombings had both positive and negative effects within the United States and abroad. On one hand, the American allies saved many lives by avoiding a full blown ground invasion of Japan. They also sent a message to the international...
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...Home AS and A Level History International History, 1945-1991 Was the "Battle of Britain" a Major Turning Point In World War II. Level: AS and A Level Subject: History Topic: International History, 1945-1991 Word count: 2716 Save Was the “Battle of Britain” a Major Turning Point In World War II For this essay I am going to study the Battle of Britain and analyse its importance as a *turning point of World War II. *A turning point is a particular decision or act that significantly alters the turnout of a conflict. In 1939 Adolph Hitler led Nazi Germany on a crusade to dominate all of Western Europe. After crushing Poland, Norway and eventually France with their vicious and relentless “Blitzkrieg” or “Lightening War” tactics Germany had only one obstacle left before it attained total Western European domination; Great Britain. After a humiliating defeat in France, the British Expeditionary Force, or B.E.F. as it was better known, was faced with a terrible choice. Either stay to fight the German advance and risk encirclement, or pull back to the beaches of Dunkirk, and attempt to get as many men as possible back to Great Britain. Eventually the British and French commanders decided that France was lost and that they should evacuate as soon as possible. What followed was a mass withdrawal using as many floating vessels as were available. Under heavy bombardment from both land and air, cargo ships, freighters, battleships and even fishing boats were used in an...
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...were also serving the country in World War II. According to LivingHistoryFarm’s article, “Civil Rights for Minorities”, “The Army accepted black enlistees but created separate black infantry regiments and assigned white commanders to them. The Navy segregated Negro units and gave them most menial jobs on ships, and the Marines at least initially, didn’t even accept African Americans.” Sadly the enlistees couldn’t escape the segregation they experienced on a daily basis but eventually the segregation was difficult to keep up with as they were all being attacked by the Axis powers in the war. The National Museum of the Pacific War says “2.5 million African Americans men registered for the draft, 167,000 served in the Navy, 909,000...
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... 1 Event Analysis: World War II LaKisha J. Williams PAD540 International Public Administration Dr. Angela Parham Strayer University February 7, 2013 Event Analysis 2 Event Analysis: World War II World War II The United States stood in shock and fear as Japan initiated their attack on the naval base at Pearl Harbor with absolutely no warning. After the Great Depression of the 1920s, Japan was left without the resources they largely depended on the United States to provide. As Japan’s population became more overcrowded and their resources became scarce, the Japanese military decided to try and take over lands in China; mainly Manchuria. The Empire of Japan was aimed at taking over East Asia. As tensions arose between Japan and China the United States under the leadership of Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt (in the beginning) decided that they did not have any stake siding with either country. Up to this point the United States policy in China was based on the principle known as the Open Door Policy in which any and all countries were free to trade and make investments with and within China. The United States felt that if they sanctioned Japan and China, both economically and with military assistance, it would be enough for Japan and China to stop the fighting, but it didn’t. At that point Japan decided to accept Germany as an ally and began to take over lands governed by the French...
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...Neal Conner History of Modern Asia Ehlers 10/23/12 Reading Response to “An Artist of the Floating World” “An Artist of the Floating World” provides us with a unique perspective on the life of Masuji Ono and his struggles following World War II. Ono was a Japanese artist, and what seemed to be a Japanese nationalist. The end of the war coupled with Japan’s loss take a great toll on him and his state of mind. Ono works himself into this state of denial and shows this staunch unwillingness to change. As this story progresses, we see his perspective clash with those of the reality he is living in after World War II. This story isn’t really about art, but more or less a man’s struggle with finding a way to go on after the life and concept of country and world he had have changed. When first introduced to Masuji Ono, it is apparent that his vision for Japan was the great nation that was fighting the Second World War. Ono wanted a strong Japan, and a powerful empire. He believed in this vision that he committed his work and essentially his life to the Empire of Japan. He wanted to radiate his country’s greatness in his work. Ono had great pride in his nation. Everything about him was so heavily invested into his country, that it’s inevitable defeat at the hands of the Allied Powers was supremely devastating on his pride, his career, and even his humanity as he loses his wife and his son. This ultimately leads him down a path of nostalgia, play, and pleasure that is disgraceful, but...
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...whole world: a global army. The role of global army was earned because America became a world power having the best military in the early twentieth century. American soldiers have been called into international incidents that had nothing to do with our country, but because America is the global army, it was called on for aid. Two international incidents that America used military action abroad are the Iraq War and the Syrian Civil War. The Syrian Civil War is a war in Syria between the people loyal to Ba’ath government and President Bashar al-Assad and the people rebelling the government by trying to overthrow it. It began in as a peaceful protest in March 2011 and has grown and gotten worse since (PBS, 2013). In June 2013 America debated putting boots on ground in Syria because proof that the Syrian government was using chemical weapons on its own people came to light (PBS, 2013). President Obama instructed air attacks on Syria, but before he made that decision, the war raised controversy among the American people. Some Americans felt it was essential that America intervene because the Syrian government was mistreating its people (Pyle, 2013). Some Americans felt that the United States was so depleted from all of the other affairs it has been involved in that adding one more would hurt the country even more economically (Pyle, 2013). Furthermore, Americans felt that enough men and women have died from Americans involvement in the war in Iraq (Pyle, 2013). The war in Iraq...
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