This\u00a0museum\u00a0exhibit\u00a0focuses\u00a0on the topic of women during war time.\u00a0 This\u00a0includes\u00a0how the roles\u00a0of what women\u00a0were typically able to do changed throughout these eras and will also include what women thought about what was going on. This project will cover from around the time of the First World War to modern warfare.\u00a0The exhibit will be set up\u00a0chronologically for the wars themselves;\u00a0however,\u00a0similar\u00a0sources\u00a0will be grouped\u00a0together for each war. The eras that\u00a0will be covered\u00a0are World War I, World War II,\u00a0the\u00a0Vietnam War, and the Iraq War.\u00a0The roles and jobs of women\u00a0during\u00a0war time have changed drastically since World War I.\u00a0The women at this time have\u00a0gone from taking over the male jobs that were left behind in factories and becoming workers outside of the household, to working as nurses,\u00a0with some\u00a0even\u00a0gaining full military status in World War II.\u00a0 This all eventually leads\u00a0to women in the last fifteen years being legally allowed to take up active duty combat roles. The jobs that women had made an enormous difference to society and gave the US military the ability to be so successful throughout history.<\/p>\n
One of the largest contributions that women could\u00a0make during World War I and II was\u00a0being\u00a0hired in factories by the government to make supplies for the military.\u00a0 The government during these times ran a successful campaign of propaganda in order to show women that it\u00a0was okay to work in factories and help build planes to send across the sea. This worked in the government\u2019s favor, because it made more men available to fight and they could pay women a lot less than they would pay men for the same work. The most famous example of this being \u201cRosie the Riveter,\u201d\u00a0who empowered women to work. During World War II women\u2019s jobs were also expanding into working for the military in their own branch known as the\u00a0Women\u2019s Auxiliary Army Corps.\u00a0 Some of these women were overseas helping the war effort in a non-combat form,\u00a0which\u00a0also gave members full military status. Women who before the war had already gained their pilot\u2019s license could join the Women\u2019s Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs.\u00a0 They would test planes and transport cargo,\u00a0which\u00a0in turn made it possible for more men to join the front lines and not have to stay back to work non-combatant roles.<\/p>\n
In the Vietnam war many women both helped the cause and became army nurses. These nurses were some of the first women to get close to actual combat and were not kept away from the danger completely.\u00a0 Women during this war showed bravery and\u00a0patriotism for their work to protect and help the injured,\u00a0even if it meant their own lives were being put in danger in the process. However,\u00a0other women were\u00a0also\u00a0taking a different side in the war and joining the antiwar movements to fight against the draft.\u00a0They\u00a0argued against the\u00a0moral reasons of fighting and dying in a war that\u00a0was not our own problem, since\u00a0we could have stayed out of\u00a0it. Women were joining the opposition when they were continuing to see men that they cared about going off to fight and even die in a brutal and bloody\u00a0war. They had peaceful marches to try to keep their husbands and sons out of the fighting.<\/p>\n
In more recent times women’s roles in the military have theoretically become almost equal to men\u2019s\u00a0roles.\u00a0 Now they\u00a0are even able to join the front line, that way they will\u00a0not be kept away from the main fighting. This is because the nature of war\u00a0has\u00a0now\u00a0become so different, since\u00a0the front and the back lines are starting to blur together,\u00a0with women seeing fighting and danger even before this rule was passed. There are still very few women who hold these positions, as they still\u00a0must\u00a0be able to pass the same fitness tests that the men\u00a0must\u00a0in order to prove that they can hold their own with their male counterparts. Women are starting to slowly be allowed to join sectors of the military that were\u00a0never available to them before.\u00a0 This has\u00a0made a difference to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, because many women in these countries would not speak to male soldiers due to religious\u00a0limitations\u00a0and\u00a0husbands who keep them away from foreign men. This means that before women\u00a0could\u00a0be on the front lines,\u00a0the US was not even able\u00a0to\u00a0effectively\u00a0communicate with a large part of the population;\u00a0however,\u00a0a female soldier\u00a0has a better chance of not offending their beliefs and cultures.<\/p>\n
This topic is significant to US History since 1877, because if women did not play the vital roles that they did throughout history,\u00a0then the US\u2019s resources would have been spread too thin,\u00a0and the government would not have been able to send as many men to go fight because they would need them to continue to still work in the factories. Without these women the US might not have all the same outcomes that it did across history in order to become the\u00a0powerhouse that it is today.<\/p>\n
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