How World War I Impacted American Society

Women contributions to the workforce rose from 24% in 1914 to 37% in 1918. Women had to take over all of the men’s jobs, the physical and financial burden of caring for families. These jobs included farming, deliveries, weaponry work, printing, teaching and shop assistants. The years during the war 1914-1918 were extremely busy and stressful for both the women and the children. Women’s organisations became very active during the time of the war.

Wilson viewed America as a nation of peace and he wanted to preserve this view. However, as time went on, the little things the U.S did while claiming its neutrality started to matter. Germans retaliated to the U.S trade with the Allies. One thing led to another and the U.S joined the war under the Allies’

With most of the men at war women had to fill their shoes at home. They took factory and industrial jobs. Women took a giant leap and tackled the work force. Society called these jobs war jobs. This let women know that when the men returned home from war that the men would return to their jobs and the women would have to go back to being the homemaker.

The United States entered World War I for many different reasons including the Zimmerman Note, the sinking of the Lusitania, and the Russian Revolution, among other factors. The Zimmerman note influenced America to join the war because the note stated that Mexico would form an alliance with the central powers and in return the central powers would help Mexico to take back land that it lost to America in the Mexican Session. America would also not want the war to be so close to home, if Mexico did not get involved the war would stay almost entirely in Europe. The Zimmerman Note was also excellent for propaganda because it was initially published by newspapers instead of being officially released by the government. The sinking of the Lusitania

World War I, known as the war to end all wars at the time, had massive impacts on the U.S. Soldiers that were being sent off into the battlefield not knowing whether they would return home dead or alive. Soldiers fought, slept, and lived in trenches for the entirety of the war. Although, soldiers were not the only ones experiencing poor conditions during the war Citizens, and even countries, were affected by the war in various ways. Citizens in the U.S were stripped of their right of freedom of speech under the first amendment. WWI caused a large epidemic in the U.S regarding health safety.

National 5 History Assignment To what extent was war work the main reason why women gained the vote in 1918? In 1918, the Representation of the People Act was passed. This allowed all women over 30 who owned their own property, were married to a proper owner or were graduates to vote.

Before the war broke out women were restricted to housewife jobs such as cooking and cleaning. Not every woman wants to do housewife duties. I believe that people started to realize that not everybody is cut out for a certain job description. After the war started and men were shipped overseas, women were finally able to do more productive jobs like factory or office jobs. Women were even given the chance to become nurses for the Red Cross Association.

Women fought more than two hundred years in order to got the rights that were guaranteed to man in the constitution of the united states. Even if the revolution of the United States against the colonial Great Britain gave them more consideration among the society especially regarding the education of their children with the republican motherhood aspect, women were not equal to men and they were totally dependent of their husband for their entire life. Then, the civil war appeared in April 1861; during this war, which is considered as the bloodiest war of the American history, women were really involved and contributed a lot to help soldiers both of the confederated and of the union side. Some women engaged herself as nurse and gave care to the soldiers. Other tried to collect funds in order to provide food, uniforms and other things the soldiers needed.

Many became nurses, a role that prevailed from aiding the heavily injured men from war. “…female nurses did mostly custodial work, feeding and bathing patients, emptying chamberpots, cleaning hospital wards and occasionally cooking” (Brooks 2013, para. 7). Nursing allowed women to obtain a better sense of their well-being. It expanded their usefulness, emphasizing recognition upon their gender role. Among the roles in the war, the majority were “cooks, maids, laundresses, water bearers and seamstresses for the army” (Brooks 2013, para. 16).

World War II is very similar to World War II with women joining the industrial workforce with over fifty percent. Women also joined the Women’s Army Corps and WAVES or Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service, but women were not allowed in combat. Many of these women that joined these two organizations performed many duties including clerical, nursing, and transportation duties with 240,000 women in their ranks. Women who took the jobs at home including the industrial jobs, textile jobs, defense jobs, and other jobs their income did go up as they moved to more important positions. Propaganda was used again to persuade women to join the war effort and help supply the men overseas.

Although it is the WWII that a lot of media shows focus on, we can see that lots of historians claim WWI has diverse sides and has much more to learn from because it is complex. In this base, it would also be interesting to see what effects of WWI affected the American Public by changing American Public’s perspectives on each other and on their beliefs. Looking at the events of WWI, it is clear that deaths of the male during WWI helped to rise the status of women, and how women are viewed in American society. The WWI is a horrible war because lots of men who volunteer as soldier did not know the terrible death they would meet. Because Europe was pretty peaceful since the Napoleon Wars, people during this time did not exactly realized how

Once the First World War started in 1914, many men went off to fight leaving a shortage of workers in factories, shops, and manufacturing companies. Women helped fill the void by taking jobs as workers in various fields. Many women manufactured weapons and ammunitions to help with the war effort. Women who worked during the war were paid exceptionally less money than men who worked those same jobs. The lower pay was frustrating for suffragists, but not a huge concern of the government at the time.

World War ll had affected the countries who were involved and affected everyone around them. The citizens of America wanted isolationism but Woodrow Wilson had another idea and Japan had other ideas of their own as well. By the time World War ll was over Europe had lost a lot and Japan/Asia had regained most of what they had lost. America wanted to go back into isolationism but Woodrow Wilson went against that by signing the power treaty which led to him not winning the election but also tied America to other countries including Germany and Japan. In 1941, Japan had entered United States territory and dropped a bomb on Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii that killed over 1000 crew members from the United States Armed Forces, that had then later been one of the causes leading to the Second World War.

If the U.S. was truly neutral, they would not have interfered in war with the accomodations relating to their connections with Britain. The Zimmerman Note, large amounts of exports and loans to the allied powers, and Woodrow Wilson’s War Message, all present evidence surrounding the United States not acting like the neutral country they claimed to be, ultimately leading to the United States being forced to enter World War I.

The United States continued a policy of isolationism up until World War 2. In conclusion, World War 1 changed American society, and foreign policy. American society changed as so women gained the right to vote, women gained more jobs. One thing that happened during the war was the Great Migration, which was when over 6 million AfricanAmericans moved north.