Would Life Ever Be The Same

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Would Life Ever Be The Same?
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Do Now

• List three (3) TRADITIONAL jobs that women were
  expected to fulfill prior to the war
• List three 3 ways that womens lives changed when
  the U.S. entered the war on December 8, 1941
• THINK!!! How was government able to persuade
  women to go to work?

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How was the govt able to persuade women to go to
work?

• Appeal to their emotions
• Promise economic prosperity for women
• Appeal to their patriotism
• Glamorize work

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Other jobs included Police officers, running
cranes, welded, tended blast furnaces, bus
drivers, taxi drivers, gas station attendants.
Farm laborers.WE DID IT ALL!!!
350,000 women serve in military units. Almost
every role except combat
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How did women serve their country???

• Womens Army Auxilary Corp
• WAVES
• SPARS

• Marine Corp Womens Reserve
• Womens Airforce Service Pilots
• Army
• Navy
• Coast Guard
• Marines
• Airforce-2000 Women

WAC- Womens Army Corp-Full Army Status. 140,000
women (largest group)
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What did they do for the war??

• Flew airplanes for testing and towed targets
• 66 nurses in Japanese Prison camps
• Wave pilots taught Navy men how to fly

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What must these men be thinking?
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Theyre just going to have to kick me out of
this army.- Private Thelma Giddings
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Anything you can do I can do better!
For me, defense work was the beginning of my
life I found out that I could do something with
my hands besides bake a pie. Woman Machinist
1944 Department of Labor study found that 80
percent of female war workers wanted to keep
their jobs after the war.
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In what capacity were men involved in the war?

• Selective Service Act- First peacetime
  conscription in United States History (September
  14, 1940)
• Originally Ages 21-30. Later changed to 18-45
• 10 million men drafted and another 6 million men
  and women enlisted freely.
• Trained to fight in jungles, deserts, towns, and
  farmlands.
• Army, Navy and Air Force set up bases across the
  country

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Sacrifice

• Women and Children canned their own vegetables
• Victory Gardens
• Save scrap metals
• Conserve electricity
• Conserve gas/fuel
• Rationing

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Food Rationing

• Meat 1940
• Cheese 1941
• Jam 1941
• Eggs 1941
• Clothing 1941
• Canned tomatoes 1942
• Rice 1942
• Biscuits 1942

• Began in 1940
• Lasted until 1954
• Books that contained coupons to ensure everyone
  got their fair share
• 16 points per month (later changed to 20 points
  per month)

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War Production Board Guidelines for
Clothing Maximum lengths were required, NO
pleated skirts (too much material needed)