So women played a main role in the war as well as men because if someone was to be shot the medic which was normally a women would have to go and get him and try and help him. http://252320527578819796.weebly.com/womens-jobs-in-ww1.html World War Two The story of women’s employment during WWI was repeated during WWII. During WWII women worked in factories producing munitions, building ships, aeroplanes, in the auxiliary services as air-raid wardens, fire officers and evacuation officers, as drivers of fire engines, trains and trams, as conductors and as nurses. entry of women into occupations which were regarded as highly skilled and as male preserves, for example as drivers of fire engines, trains and trams and in the engineering, metal and shipbuilding industries, renewed debates about equal pay. despite the steady increase in women’s employment rates since the 1920s, a married woman’s place was still considered to be in the home http://www.striking-women.org/module/women-and-work/world-war-ii-1939-1945 Interwar The league of Nations – 10 Jan 1920 Hitlers Program of rearmament – 15 march 1935 ( Hitler was planning on expanding Germany with force
In response to women’s contribution in WW1 Women gained the right to vote. Because the women helped the government in order to win the war by creating ammunition and Farming, this changed the lives of women by having the right to choose who is going to control the country. I can also infer that, the group called the Suffragettes has been fighting for women's rights. Because, the leader Mrs Pankhurst believes that women and men are equal and should have the rights and this changed woman's life by getting the same amount of payment as the men. This can be seen on source A1 which states that ‘’ women had proved that they were just as important to the war effort as men in 1918 women were given some form of political representation.
Women of WWII World War II was the beginning of many changes, particularly for women. During WWII, there were many women war correspondents including Clare Boothe Luce, Elisabeth May Adams Craig, and photo journalist Esther Bubley. While there were almost 130 accredited women correspondents during this time, these three stood out to me. Clare Boothe Luce was a Congresswoman, a play writer, a war correspondent for Life, and an ambassador to Italy (Biography, 2015). Luce was considered one of the toughest women of WWII.
I found it very difficult to put the book down. It is a book I have already recommended to others especially the women in my life. It was amazing to know the amount of abuse and killings on girls and the struggle for gender equality around the world. By reading these stories we learn that women are not the problem but the solution. I believe this is not only true for the women’s stories in this book, but true for all women.
There are many women who used their photography skills during World War II to examine and bring the different faces of the war to the masses. One of the famous female photographers, Toni Frissell, had a career photographing fashion and the upper class for magazines like Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. She knew a lot of the country’s wealthy people, and when she decided on a career change, her family did not approve. Once war came to the country, she forayed into photographing nurses, orphans, African-American airmen, WACs, and soldiers. She worked for the American Red Cross, Eighth Army Air Force and the Women’s Army Corps.
Case Study: Women in Second World War Tracey Freeman Chamberlain College of Nursing Contemporary History HIST410N-64786 Professor Rose July 25, 2015 The roles that May Craig, Toni Frissell and Ester Bubley played in World War Two (WWII), not only showed heroism, their contributions made considerable differences in the lives they touched. All three being women with careers, each felt a need to contribute their talents, as a journalist and photographers, leaving the safety of their homeland, to travel either across the country or abroad to report the war and its effects. Mary Craig, a Washington correspondent, was said to have covered WWII with the same ”keen eye and shard tongue” that informed her daily “Inside Washington”
Using my own research i will discover whether the World War One had a positive effect on the role of women. After the immediate rise in female unemployment at the beginning of the war due to the ‘middle-classes wish to economise’ (first world war, accessed 07/01/09), the only option to replace the volunteers gone to front was to employ women in the jobs they had left behind. This was supported by all the major feminist groups, who suddenly ‘became avid patriots and organisers of the women in support of the war effort’ (war and gender, accessed 22/01/09). Overall women’s employment increased from ‘three million in 1914 to five million in 1918’ (Murphy, p373, 2000). For many of the women the war was ‘a genuinely liberating experience’ (first world war, accessed 07/01/09), and made the women feel useful as citizens.
Was Churchill justified in using the strategic bom • Russia had been pushing for a seconf front in Europe which would involve an amphibious landing. Churchill had had several disasters with amphibious landings (Gallipoli/ Narvick) and knowing it was an area of weakness leant towards the bombing campaign • Churchill understood that an amphbious landing could potentially result in the loss of thousands of British lives (lack of resources and weak army) and using the bombing campaign instead would "deal" with Germany quickly without the loss of as many British lives. • In the context of the time, Btisain has been bombed by Germany and many had suffered. Many people in the general public probably fely Germany deserved to be bombed after the destruction of towns like Conventry and areas of London. • Was a way of loweing morale and hindering German progression in the war, targeting their resources and factories.
When And Why Did The Second World War Turn Against Hitler And His Allies? In September 1939 the world descended into the most violent conflict in its history. This was as a result of many years of poverty stress and anger at other countries (from Germany). Hitler took this downfall of the country to become the prime minister, as he often said that if he became the leader of Germany he would sort the country of all its problems. Hitler then took away the “Power of the People” by replacing parliament with a self proclaimed dictatorship, which most Germans welcomed.
Later that year in Potsdam, many open disagreements took place because Germany had lost the war so Russia had promised to fulfil, Churchill had lost the 1945 election and Roosevelt died so Truman, who replaced him was angered by the large scale reparations imposed on Germany and the setting up of a communist government in Poland. He did not trust Russia, so kept him in the dark about him having the atomic bomb in 1945 before he dropped it on Japan to get them to surrender. By America using the atomic bomb, Stalin knew that it was possible for it to be used against them. Russia was therefore tricked by America preventing the Red Army from going to Japan. This threatened Russia and warned them that America was wary of them and could act on it.