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    clerks, and especially munition factory workers. The women had responsibilities to do which gave them an opportunity to do things men usually did. After the Homefront it helped them to be treated as equals among the men because the woman showed that woman can do the jobs as good as men can. A woman named Vera Britain was a WWI woman on the Homefront who decided after the first year of WWI that her duty was serving for her country and then spent most of the war being a nurse in London. At the beginning

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    Frank Capra Why We Fight

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    Appearing in 1898, a few years after the birth of motion pictures, war films have become a staple of the film industry. All the way at the beginning these films provided an unbelievable draw for audiences who wanted information about major international conflicts that they and their country were experiencing. Many American films have sought to capture the horror, unbridled bravery, bloodshed and fearless courage of warfare. These films were made to explore the realities of combat, the relationships

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    The World War II ( Ww2 )

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    were surprisingly affected on the homefront. WW2 changed American lives in the U.S greatly and mainly for the better. Due to the war, women became the prime laborers in factories while the men fought and for the first time became financially independent; the growing sense of nationalism caused Americans to greatly contribute to the war effort through provisional supplies of food and money which contributed to the war; and most of all the families on the homefront who had sent their men into the war

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    composed of females serving as civilians in alliance with the Army. Over the duration of World War II, around 600,000 women were requested to serve in the army, although “the demand was never met because many women preferred higher-paying jobs” on the homefront of in rival military auxiliaries. Nevertheless, about 150,000 women served in the WAC throughout the war (Schafer 636). Oveta Culp Hobby, the head of the Women’s Interest section in the Bureau of Public Relations in the War Department, became the

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    As the readings and videos portray, women’s participation had a profound impact on a country’s success in both world wars. As the article, “Women in the Military World War I and II,” indicates women made up for the deficits in labor, in both agriculture and industry. The participation in World War II for women was much greater than that of World War I. This becomes evident when, “More than ten times as many women served in most militaries during World War II as had served during World War I, although

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    outburst of patriotism. The response to the patriotism, the American’s went for the military service. America’s numbers however were to small to build the army that they needed to fight in the war. In this essay about the steps America took on the homefront to prepare to fight World War 1, you will learn about the drafts, the raise in the army with the public and how they got their men. The last thing you will learn about in this essay is about the Zimmerman Telegram. The draft was used on twenty

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    Mahmudul Rapi 841 Life on the Home Front During World War II During the 1930s. the United States faced one of the greatest economic depressions in history, known as the Great Depression. Since many people essentially manipulated the stock market to their advantage, they eventually got richer. However, on October 29,1929, the stock market crashed since so many people wanted to sell their stocks but so few people wanted to buy these products, which caused prices to collapse. This led up to issues

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    to Czechoslovakia to take back the land that was in 1914. On September 3rd 1939 England declared war on Germany. Life on the homefront played an important role for the war. Britain men, women, and kids for the most part endured extreme hardships. Few people escaped the rigors of life in Britain. Women were mobilised to an unprecedented degree on the homefront. From fighting the daily battle of rationing, recycling, and more. 1941, women were called up for war work. More than 80,000 women joined

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    Bloody, grueling, controversial and it changed America forever, what could it be? The Vietnam war is what it is. The war officially started August 2, 1964 after the Gulf of Tonkin incident where the North Vietnamese fired on a US destroyer. Precedent to that incident the United States had already sent military advisors and a small number of troops to stop aid the southern vietnamese from being overrun by communist forces. There was heavy casualties on both sides 58,000 on the American side and 533

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    “Once lead this people into war, and they'll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fiber of our national life, infecting Congress, the courts, the policeman on the beat, the man in the street.” This quote was said by Woodrow Wilson on the evening before declaring war on Germany. I agree with this quote because war changes you. Being a part of a war, killing other people for your

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