...Role of Women in WW2 The role of women changed dramatically during and after World War 2 (WW2). Initially women would do the housework and look after the children. During the war, women did not only have to take care of the house, they slowly started becoming popular in the working industry. After the war, women were able to have more power and were considered more than just a pretty face. Topic sentence: Before the war, women had very little freedom, power and job opportunities. Explanation: Women were the leaders of the house. They would cook, clean, wash and wipe whilst looking after children. Some of them had feminine jobs, like tailoring, where they would work and try to earn money in order to support their husbands or if their husbands were unable to work. Before the war, it was generally thought that a MAN was the main bread winner and provider for their families. Ladies were very limited with their social interactions as well. They were occasional allowed get-togethers along-side their husbands. Evidence: Women were devoted to their husbands and if you weren’t married then you were supposed to be devoted to their father. Meaning that you were born to cook, clean, wash, wipe and bear children. Link: But with so many men away at war, this idealistic view began to change. Women were allowed to work and were expected to be an active member of the workforce. Topic sentence: The rise of women and their path to change during WW2. Explanation: When all the men where off...
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...World War I was one of the most destructive and deadliest wars of all time. The United States played a major military role in World War I. If it were not for the military effort produced by the Americans, World War One might have ended up very different. While the U.S. military remained neutral, both Central Powers and the Allied Powers used Propaganda, the sinking of ships of by German U-boats, and a German attempt in the Zimmerman Note to get Mexico to push the United States to get involved. The United States also contributed in terms of supplies, capital and raw material. Just before the U.S. declared war on April 6, 1917, the U.S. was trying hard to stay neutral, but because of propaganda and sinking of ships by German U-boats and German attempt on the Zimmerman note to get Mexico to declare the US to get...
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...“The atomic bomb is certainly the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.” –Lyndon B. Johnson. Nearing the end of World War II, Harry S. Truman decided to use two atomic bombs on Japan to make the war end quicker. On August 6, 1946, during World War 2, a U.S B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, the United States dropped a second explosive on Nagasaki. These two bombs played a major role into how Japan surrendered and how the Allied Powers won the war. Before the war began, Japan was an overpopulated nation. The country was “heavily dependent on foreign imports of food and raw materials” (WWII Overview 4). In 1931, people in the country pushed Emperor Hirohito, the dictator of Japan, to attack China for raw materials. As time passed, the military grew immensely, dominating the economy and government, also known as militarism. The army’s numbers grew and the navy had aircraft carriers, powerful battleships, and strong air and submarine...
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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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...In most societies, from the past until now, gender roles have played a key factor in everyday life. Women are typically on the poorly favored end of this ideology wherehas men have most of the benefits. It is good to break gender roles because it helps to cause progress and new innovations. In the United States of America, women are constantly changing gender roles. The role of a woman in society from now compared to say the early nineteen hundred’s is vastly different. In the early nineteen hundreds women were basically expected to sit at home and take care of the household, that is decorate the house, and sew, knit or crochet. Women were viewed as delicate and unable to do the work that men do. As time progressed however women slowly began to prove men wrong. One of the first examples was Women’s Suffrage, where women...
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...Women have always been a helping hand, whether it was to help cook or put the children to bed. They were never the providers, husbands and men were. This left women to do all of the house work and other house chores. This changed when World War II broke out, women had larger roles in society, and being a woman actually meant something. Since men were busy with battle, women gladly took their place on assembly lines in defense industries. Women were commonly known to work outside of the house, but women were suspected to work inside factories. Few women actually worked in factories, except for textile mills and sewing industries, places where women belonged. Factories began to beg for workers because of all the missing hands, so they were forced to seek out women’s help to keep their industries running. Government advertisements posted about openings in the industrial industries and they told them that they were prepared for this type of work. In fact,...
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...Before World War II, women’s roles in the home remains fairly steady and stable. They were the model of family life and domesticity and were expected to remain at home with the children to take care of the home and her husband. Though women were an integral part of society, all of their work came under the general heading of ‘housewife’. Not only did they take care of the home and the children, they were in charge of the family bookkeeping and even kept gardens, but all of this traditional work was not considered ‘real work’ because, unlike men, they earned no money. Cut off from the economy, they labored day and night producing goods and providing services vital to the well-being of the family and to society, but in the eyes of the world,...
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...How Women Were Affected by World War 2 World War II marked a big turning point for women and their roles in society. Before World War II begun, most women were seen as housewives and stay at home mothers and only that. Of course they filled other jobs and took on other responsibilities, but in most cases it would be men. The culture was that men fit the jobs better and would do a better job, and that wasn’t really questioned very much originally because that is how it had always been. Women were not going to be seen as equals with men in America unless a drastic change was going to occur. That change would have almost had to force women into the workforce and obliged their involvement with American jobs outside of housework. That drastic...
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...Roles changed of American women in War World 2 when men left to go fight in war. When America went into war men left their jobs to go fight in the war. Millions of women filled in for the men who left to go fight in the war. Women were encouraged to fill in these jobs by a campaign featuring "Rosie the Riveter." African Americans made key contributions in combat. African Americans worked in the air force during the war. Pilots were trained at the Tuskegee Army Air Field. Many Native Americans worked in defense industries or served in the armed forces. Navajo's formed a unit called the code talkers." The code talkers are a unit that uses a special based on the Navajo language. Thousands of Latinos served in the United States military. Mexican...
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...When women were wanting to help with the war, they weren’t given many jobs. The male military workers were still getting more benefits and better jobs, during World War ll. Women weren’t allowed to do everything the men were allowed to do. Many bigger roles were to given the men. During this war, women hardly ever got to do a big job or become a captain for the military. According to Karen Donnelly who wrote American Pilots of World War ll, “General Arnold ordered their plane reassigned to a male pilot. He was afraid of the publicity that would result if women pilots were killed in the War Zone” (Donnelly,21). The United States wasn’t used to having women in the military, so because of this there roles were often compromised by male workers....
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...the A-bomb and the damage of this bomb was beyond belief. The new President Harry Truman tell the allies about the bomb and on July 26th the US give Japan an Ultimatum. “Unconditional surrender or face prompt and utter destruction. Japan refuses, so on August 6th the Enola Gay drops an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, destroying 80% of it, and killing 68,000 instantly. (118,000 and more in total). The next target was Nagasaki. The bomb killed another 30,000 instantly. This was important for WW2 because this was the last event that occured before the end of world war two. September 2nd 1945- Japan surrenders unconditionally. The Japanese navy and army were completely destroyed so even if they wanted to fight back they couldn't. With the the US, The Soviet Union, Britain and China arriving in the Tokyo Bay, Mamoru Shigemitsu who was the prime minister at the time signed for their Government and General Yoshijiro Umezu signed for their entire military. This was truly the end of WW2 and this was a very important day for America. We got into this war because of Japan and if we did not win we would have looked inadequate, but since we won, we have only further proven ourselves to being a world power. ...
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...In World War Two, Australian women had similar roles. In most of the Second World War, nurses were the only females to serve outside of Australia in any capacity. These organisations included the Australian Army Medical Women's Service the Australian Army Nursing Service, and Voluntary Aid Detachments of the Red Cross. 5,000 Australian nurses served in a range of locations, including hospitals, troops ships, camps and temporary hospitals and on aeroplanes. They served in Mediterranean, The Middle East, Britain, Asia, the Pacific, and Australia. While nurses were kept away from the home front as much as possible , they were also caught up in the evacuation of Singapore ,and many died when the Japanese army force attacked the hospital ships. A nurse was killed in the first Japanese attack on Darwin. Some Nurses served on the front line but they mainly stayed behind....
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...In the year 1942 WWII was going on, because of this there was a high demand on men to be recruited to fight in war. This was a bad time for all Major League Baseball teams due to decrease in amount of players on the teams. Major League Baseball was said to be on hold because of the war. Philip K. Wrigley the owner of the Chicago Cubs realized that this was a problem, he began looking for ideas in 1943 to help continue the large amount of people going to Wrigley. He then saw how big softball was and how many fans it brought, then he came up with the idea of girls playing professional baseball. He not only thought this was a good idea to bring fans to Wrigley but also to keep people and soldiers entertained during the war .Women playing baseball goes back to the 1860s when Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. made a team. 80 years later the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League ( AAGPBL)Was started. The league lasted about twelve years and gave over 500 women a chance to play. Wrigley stated “ The need for additional recreation in towns busy with war defense work prompted the idea”. The league began as a softball league, rules quickly became modified and the league developed four Midwest teams: the South Bend Blue Sox,the Rockford Peaches, and the Kenosha Comets, the Racine Belles, at other times the league included: the Fort Wayne Daisies, Minneapolis Millerettes, Kalamazoo Lassies, Muskegon Lassies, Grand Rapid Chicks, Peoria Redwings, Milwaukee Chicks, and Chicago Colleens...
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...World War 1 (WW1), from 1914 and 1918, and World War 2 (WW2), which occurred between 1939 and 1945, were two significant battles known to almost all Americans today. These wars were caused by several factors, in which some are alike and some are different. Their causes differ in that one of World War 1’s reasons for war included the German U-boats sinking the Lusitania. On the other hand, one different cause of World War 2 was the Treaty of Versailles. Both wars are alike in that they both were caused due to militarism, imperialism, and nationalism. In analyzing the causes of both wars, it’s crucial to know that there were similarities and differences because of their time periods of occurrence (for different events happening) as well as the...
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...Assess the significance of war in influencing the transformation of approaches to medical treatment and surgery in the period 1870-1990 Throughout 1870-1990, warfare played a crucial role in transforming approaches to medical treatment and surgery as it; prompted more government responsibility in healthcare, innovated technological developments in medicine such as the establishment of blood transfusion services, contributed to individual breakthroughs by catalysing the development, and mass-production of penicillin. However, there's an ongoing historical debate regarding the significance of other factors' influence in transforming approaches to medical treatment and surgery. Other factors include; individuals who used their scientific knowledge to develop new medical treatment and surgical treatments, and the role of the government in enhancing healthcare in Britain. The effects of war were prevalent as early as the Second Boer War; which exposed inadequacies within the healthcare system, instigating increased government awareness towards poor health. Henry Hyndman suggested up to 50% of volunteers were unfit and in Manchester, 8,000 out of the 11,000 who volunteered for the army were rejected as they were physically unsuitable. The public's poor health hindered recruitment for the Boer War alarmed the government. This forced them to respond by establishing the inter-department Committee on Physical Deterioration; which highlighted nutrition as an indicator of the public's...
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