Women's Role In World War 1

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On July 18, 1914 World War I began. In this war, unfortunately, only men were allowed to fight. This war began by Austria-Hungary declaring war on Serbia, but it then had a widespread and 30 other countries were involved. The US, Britain, France, Russia, and Italy (also known as as the “Allies”) were in the war against Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria (these were known as the “Central Powers”). During the war, the women were not allowed to fight, but that doesn’t go to say that they didn’t have a powerful impact on World War I. The BBC News states, “many people believed that the war had helped advance women politically and economically”. Because most of the men were on the battlefield, women were given such opportunities …show more content…
The nurses helped the soldiers when they were sick or injured, and got them back on the battlefield as quick as they could. “Front Lines” says that such nurses played a “major roll in hospitals AND health units”. “Front Lines” also reads a letter from the kernel saying how he really wants good nurses. Without having these woman as nurses they would not have half of the army they do because they would be losing many and quickly, without them nursing them to health and healing. “Soldiers Stories” goes on to call these nurses work “service beyond expectation”. It also states, “Over the course of the war… nurses were decorated for bravery”. The nurses that helped with these soldiers went above and beyond, but their work didn’t go unnoticed. While the had a huge impact by being nurses for those on the battlefield, they also impacted WWI by planting “victory …show more content…
Since there was nobody to do, the had too (not that the didn’t financially benefit from doing so). Gassel made a cartoon of 4 women standing beside each other. On the very left, there is a girl in a big poofy dress and on the far right, there’s a girl in practically mens clothes. Gassel used this cartoon to show how while these men were away these women had evolved. Gassel also feared “women have, through the years, been losing that feminine appeal which truly separates them from the males of the species”. This cartoon was labeled “Going- Going- Gone”, which kind of shows how these women were such hard workers and invested so much time into taking over these jobs while these men were on the battlefield that they even lost themselves and their feminism. The women had to take over the obs, but they also gave everything they had while doing their jobs, and that’s part of why they had such an impact on World War