...Minorities 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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...British armies. Most were wives or daughters of officers or soldiers. These women were known as “camp followers” because they maintained a constant presence in military camps. Their duties consisted primarily of cooking, sewing, laundry, childcare, and nursing the sick. Many women also disguised themselves as men in order to serve in the military. Civil War: During the Civil War thousands of women volunteered and signed up to work as nurses. Others helped supply food, sewed clothes and blankets, and did laundry. More than 400 women disguised themselves as men and fought in the Union and Confederate armies. Some worked as spies and messengers. W.W.I/W.W.II: Some of the more known roles of women in W.W.I/W.W.II include nurses, munitions factory workers, sewing bandages, selling war bonds, shipyards and spies. Some also worked on planes as mechanics and pilots. Korean Conflict: During the Korean Conflict most women were restricted to clerical and nursing duties. Vietnam: During Vietnam women served as nurses and were close behind fighting troops and were exposed to combat conditions and fighting forces. They were trained on how to fire the M-16 but were not allowed to fire them. Desert Storm/OIF: During Desert Storm over 40,000 US military women served in key combat‐support positions. During OIF woman also served in key combat-support roles and were assigned to support units on the front line. History of Women in Military and Combat 1942-1978 WAC: The Women’s...
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...000 women who served in the U.S. Armed Forces to perform needed services. The Army and Navy Nurse Corps were established before the First World War and included nearly 8,000 women nurses in December of 1941. There were over 59,000 Army nurses and 11,000 Navy nurses who were female by the end of the war. Wartime nurses daily risked their lives as caretakers of wounded soldiers. They tended hundreds of patients each day, as long as eighty-four hours in a week. “We worked like beavers, never enough nurses to go around. One nurse might have responsibility for nearly two hundred very sick patients, spread over an area of approximately two city blocks,” Evangeline Bakke Fairall, who served as a Captain Nurse in the U.S. Army, wrote in No Time for Fear: Voices of American Military Nurses in World War II. Many soldiers were motivated by the example of diligent nurses who cared for them. The troops believed they could do the same if the nurses could take the terrors of war. Nurses saved the lives of countless soldiers and encouraged them to continue to battle without giving up. Women joined newly established organizations and served in uniform. Each branch of the U.S. military instituted its own branch for women. These include Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC), later upgraded to the Women’s Army Corps (WAC), Women Appointed for Voluntary Emergency Services (WAVES), and Women’s Airforce Service Pilots (WASP). WAC members worked in more than 200 non-combatant jobs stateside and every scene...
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... 2. What is General Order #29, tell us what the significance of this order is to you? General Order number 29 talks about how the hospital personnel were treated and what their significance was. That no one can enter the medical corps who is unqualified, there are provisions to ensure that everyone is educated and knowledgeable in their jobs and ranks. That there is enough staff...
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...Mary Louise was a skilled nurse who enlisted into the Army Nurse Corps during the WWII. When Mary Louise graduated a high school in Texas in 1930, her father died. Her thirty-four-year mother had to take care Mary Louise and five younger siblings; but it was hard for a single mom to be a breadwinner during the Depression. The Roberts family moved back to Mississippi, where Mary Louise’s grandparents lived, and she started to work in a laundry. However, the owner did not want to hire her because of her age, sixteen. Her mom replaced her job and Mary stayed at home to look after the younger siblings. When she became eighteen, Mary Louise went to a nurse training program in Alabama to help her family’s living. In 1941, she earned stable, but still deficient, monthly income as an operating room supervisor, and she invited her family to Alabama to live with them. When America entered the WWII, Mary Louise volunteered, because she thought it was a duty as a...
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...replaced by the actual names of a people, places, or things. I got my nick name Nene from my uncle. Nene is a common nick name for people with the name nisha in their first name. Everybody I know have a nick name and not everyone nickname is related to them. Nicknames are also good to use because people do not know your real name and you can get away with things. Abbreviations are a short form of a words or phrases used chiefly in writing to represent the complete form of words. For example, Massachusetts abbreviation is Mass. or United States Marines Corps is USMC. I always abbreviate long word and long names. There are many words that I abbreviate. Memphis Tennessee is the state and city where I live and its abbreviation is Memphis, TN. I always use Memphis, TN on my mail. The word abbreviation itself can be abbreviated as abbr, abbrev. Acronym is a word formed from the initial letters of a name, such as WAC for Women's Army Corps, or by combining initial letters or parts of a series of words, such as radar for radio detecting and ranging. Acronyms are used in everyday writing and spaeaking. My name is Tenisha Boyd and some people call me TB. TB is my initial letters of my first and last...
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...was published, Soldiers that were specifically tasked at a medical facility or had these duties were now enlisted and specifically trained to perform them. They were allowed to have ranks, therefore became more structured and organized, this ensured that those with the most experience were in charge (Hospital Steward) and since they had more responsibility more pay was awarded. They would also be entitled to whatever allowances were attributed to that grade. No Hospital Steward was allowed to fill that position unless they had been examined before a board. The Surgeon-General was the only one who authorized to approve the examination before the board. The Secretary of War would decide to enlist more or less privates into the Medical Corps as situation dictated...
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...[7] The WAC (Women’s Army Corps consisted of 140,000 recruits, the WAVE (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) recruited 100,000, 23,000 joined the Marine Corps Women’s Reserve, and 13,000 with the Coast Guard Women’s Reserve. Additionally, 76,000 joined as navy nurses. [8] Some women broke the traditional gender barrier by working as mechanics and welders, few became clerks, telephone operators, and deiticians. Although nurses were a welcome addition, they were not allowed to become doctors until the April of 1943. Black women also endured racial discrimination and were segregated, mostly in part to the fact that African American men served in extremely low, menial positions. It was only in the year of 1944 that Black women were even accepted into the military. [9] 10% of WACS were African American, and worked in segregated units as well as lacking sufficient training and job opportunities. [10] Defense industries, much like the military, found it difficult to employ women into their service. Women initiated campaigns that incentivized women to assist their nation under the guise of Uncle Sam. Women’s participation in the defense industry helped break down traditional sex-segregational patterns and applied job opportunities as welders, riveters,...
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...the work force were typically working class wives, widows, divorcees, and students in need of money (Munitions). With the help of women, young and old, total industrial production doubled from 1939 to 1945. To keep the assembly lines operating around the clock women worked six days a week, were pushed to work overtime, and enjoyed only a handful of holidays (Factories). Women were responsible for the creation of aircrafts, engines, tanks, ships, guns and ammunition, as well as clothing in textile workshops. The push for women in the armed forces was made by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and many women’s groups. The idea was supported by General George Marshall and instituted in May 1942. The Women’s Army Corps, or WACs, were given full military status and served in more than “… 200 non-combatant jobs stateside and in every theatre of the war. By 1945, there were more than 100,000 WACs and 6,000 female officers” (History.com Staff). In 1942, the United States began to train women in the air forces due to a severe shortage in male pilots. The group of female pilots were named the Women Airforce Service Pilots or WASP. The pilots became the first women to fly an American military aircraft. The young women flew almost every type of aircraft, including the B-26 and B-29 bombers. They ferried planes to military bases, tested new aircrafts and towed targets for training shooting (Stamberg). “More than 1,000 WASPs served, and 38 of them lost their lives during [World War II]” (History...
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...Women have long lived to be perceived as only being a domestic housewives. World War II challenged these views and expanded women's' responsibilities and roles. World War II made it necessary for women to take on male occupations and to serve in the military. Male and female jobs became connected for the first time. Women became both influential in the home and in the work place. Gender roles became intertwined, which challenged their expected domestic and professional occupations. Many might argue that the Women's Movement started in World War II. Studs Terkel interviewed Dellie Hahne, a women who worked as a nurses aid in WWII, whom addressed her thoughts on Women in World World II. Dellie Hahne claimed “I think a lot of women said, Screw...
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...Women at War Women have faced multiple struggles to gain equality. When it comes to women trying to fight for our rights in the country, the struggle is even tougher. Throughout history, women being involved in the military seemed to be more of a burden than anything. Even though women can help with military readiness, social change throughout the military and get the career advancement they have been dreaming of for so long, they have had a hard time convincing others differently. Others would see women being a part of the military as a risk factor, as they are not as physically strong as men or that women are to compassionate compared to men. Even with the extra stress from maternal and post-traumatic stress disorder, to being sexually assaulted, women did all they could to be a part of the military. Women may not be as physically strong and capable as men but having them in the military can strengthen intelligence operations. Throughout history women have been doing all they can to be a part of the military, even to the extent of dressing as men and creating a fake identity. Support for women being a part of the military was nonexistent until recent years when women have been accepted for roles in the military. Women have been a part of the war effort since the Revolutionary War, but in the early days of our nation they had to disguise themselves to serve alongside men. Deborah Samson Gannett, from Plymouth, Massachusetts, was one of the first American women soldiers. In...
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...Women’s roles in the Armed Forces have been acknowledged more in the past 20 years than ever before. Deseret Storm was a starting point in realizing that women could be an asset, not a detriment. Still, any combat related job within each branch had a rule of no females. On December 3, 2015, the United States Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter stated that all roles in the military are now open to women. This allows women to try out and be a part of the elite positions within the Armed Forces, a huge step for equal rights within the military. Women should be allowed the option of a career in a combat role, even if the physical build discrepancies between men and women are different. Testing should not be adjusted to accommodate a woman’s body...
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...orders were posted in Japanese American communities giving them instructions on what they were to do. This included the Issei who were the first generation Japanese to immigrate to American and also the Nisei who were the second generation Japanese in America. The Japanese were allotted a few days to pack whatever they could and bring it with them. Many families had to sell off their homes, businesses and their belongings at a much lower price they had purchased it for. The 117,000 people of Japanese decent living in the U.S were later removed from their homes and moved to internment camps to prove their loyalty to the United States. During moving process they were also forced to take a questionnaire to identify possible recruits for the Army among the internees. The questionnaires allowed them to leave the camps to work, live and attend schools in other regions of the United States, which was basically another ticket to stir away from being interned. As families eventually relocated to camps throughout the war, many struggled...
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...Assignment 2 Individual Project World History American Intercontinental University Everett Smith The United States economy was greatly stimulated by the War of 1812, even more so than World War I. The depression was brought to an end and new industrial buildings were built all over the United States. Spared by the physical destruction of the war, the US economy dominated the world economy. After about four years of military buildup, the US had also become the leading military power. The position of the United States as world leader was more obvious now than ever. Economically, the war effected American society as many workers were frozen in their jobs and could not join the armed services. The ones that lost their jobs were the poor souls that ended up being drafted into the war. Those working made a lot of money from the overtime and premium pays but had no place to spend any of it, due to the rationing that came in stages during the war. Many food supplies were rationed, like butler, meats, etc., as well as, gas tires and clothing. Most all Industries had been converted to military goods, making consumer goods extremely hard to come by. Many War Bond rallies were held in order to stem inflation all the many excess dollars and too few goods would have caused inflation rises. In effect, the American population financed World War II by purchase of what we know today as “savings bonds”. All major industries had to expand to fulfill war requirements...
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...The Advancement of Women Tammy Phillips HIS 204 Instructor Vera Parham January 8, 2014 The Advancement of Women Through History Women’s Rights have grown stronger through the years. Women have gone from being seen and not heard to having a voice, supporting war multiple war efforts, and becoming politicians. In the landmark case of Roe verses Wade gave women the right to own their own body with the decision of whether or not to have an abortion. Women were battling for equality as well as the right to vote. This suffrage was a long drawn out battle through the years but finally was won. Women’s roles during all three wars, the Spanish American War, World War I, and World War II, included nurses, clerical positions, and they back filled spouse’s duties at home. A “New Woman came about in the 1920s as women changed their attitude along with hair, make-up and attitude. All of the progressions were won due to persistence. Women have played a significant throughout the wars in America, not just stateside but abroad. “The Spanish-American War created a substantial need for military nurses” (Small, 1998). Dr Anita Newcomb McGee became the nurse’s bureau chief. This was the first time contract nurses were hired to in military hospital. In September 1918, 1,100 nurses were serving in the United and overseas. During World War I women were allowed to serve in non-nursing positions performing clerical duties. 34,000 women served in the military and 10,000 served as...
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