WOMEN IN WW2

THESIS

• Womens played an important role
• in ww2 by assuming position traditionally ocupied by
• men incuding, Military service, Factory jobs, Volunteer sevices
• and Science.

ROSIE THE RIETER

• This was a ad campaign focusing on women to take mens place in jobs while they are at war
• The term Rosie the riveter was first used used in a song made in 1942
• The song was made by Redd Evans and John Jacob Loeb.
• Rosie resembled a real person named Veronica Foster who was a Canadian poster girl
• In Canada's war effort time in "Ronnie the Bren Gun Girl"

WOMEN AT WORK

• They had created and built many planes, bombs and ammunition for there factory jobs
• They would also work at lumber and steel mills for production
• And, they did a lot of machinery work like driving tractors and lifts and public transport such as buses
• More than 6,000,000 women took war time jobs in factories
• (Primary source) Women in a factory producing ammunition for war soldiers

MILITARY SEVICE

• Over 200,000 women seved in the military
• Auxiliary branches were created to help the war effort
• W.A.V.E.S (Women Accepted for Volenteer Service
• W.A.S.P (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
• W.A.C (Women Army Core)

VOLUNTEER SERVICE

• 3,000,000 women volunteered with the Red Cross
• A.W.V.S(American Women's Voluntary service) helped with message delivery
• Ambulance driving, selling war bonds, air craft spotters, navigation and more
• (Primary source) Red cross ad campaign encouraging people to join the Red cross

ELDA "ANDY" ANDERSON

• Had a Ph.D from the university of Wisconsin
• And she was a co developer of the Atomic bomb
• Which was a devastating bomb that ended WW2
• (Primary source) a picture of Elda Anderson

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Secondary sources
• http://www.nationalww2museum.org
• https://www.nwhm.org
• http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Women's_Voluntary_Services