Society is much different today because of that improvements that occurred during World War 1 because of how people needed to improve everything they had in the home front so the people overseas can fight as hard as they can and with the best equipment to win the war. World War 1 created an idea for people that they needed to help their country because they got a sense of responsibility to make sure foreigners would not control our land and make sure it stays ours. Before the war started women did not have the right to vote, but after a time of peacefully protesting they got their right to vote. It was a difficult struggle for women to attain their right to vote, they had to keep fighting the discrimination against them. In addition the women
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They worked just as hard, but there was discrimination used against them because of “tradition and culture”. African Americans during the revolutionary era were treated as equals on whaling charters, although during the WWII time they weren’t treated as well. While the war was still going on there were only two combat regiments with African Americans in them, the regiments made of about 40,000 people but there was over 200,000 African American people but they were not in combat and would do more odd jobs such as clean latrines, dig ditches, and bury rotting corpses. That time at war was horrible for the African Americans; one example would a quote by William Robert Johnson, from the 809th Pioneer Infantry. He said “Volunteered my services during rage of the flu during our voyage at sea and was in full charge of all the officers who became ill during the 14 day trip, working day and night as a nurse.”, that example shows that they were fighting while being struck with sickness and the people who were fighting during the day also nursed the sick at …show more content…
Weapons during the war expanded vastly and they even started to use chemical warfare. Some examples of weapons they used were machineguns, mustard gas, tanks, and one of the most important would be airplanes. Airplanes were a very important part of the war because it helped the war by bring supplies to warzones and even dropping bombs on the enemy. A good thing came out of the use of airplanes in the war though, it introduced the use of carrying people in planes. That then became used in the states which began the use of airliners to get place to place, making it easier and faster to get from point A to point B. That became a big hit in the nation for people cause of the convenience of getting onto a plane and not having to drive or anything you could just sleep if you
They worked just as hard, but there was discrimination used against them because of “tradition and culture”. African Americans during the revolutionary era were treated as equals on whaling charters, although during the WWII time they weren’t treated as well. While the war was still going on there were only two combat regiments with African Americans in them, the regiments made of about 40,000 people but there was over 200,000 African American people but they were not in combat and would do more odd jobs such as clean latrines, dig ditches, and bury rotting corpses. That time at war was horrible for the African Americans; one example would a quote by William Robert Johnson, from the 809th Pioneer Infantry. He said “Volunteered my services during rage of the flu during our voyage at sea and was in full charge of all the officers who became ill during the 14 day trip, working day and night as a nurse.”, that example shows that they were fighting while being struck with sickness and the people who were fighting during the day also nursed the sick at …show more content…
Weapons during the war expanded vastly and they even started to use chemical warfare. Some examples of weapons they used were machineguns, mustard gas, tanks, and one of the most important would be airplanes. Airplanes were a very important part of the war because it helped the war by bring supplies to warzones and even dropping bombs on the enemy. A good thing came out of the use of airplanes in the war though, it introduced the use of carrying people in planes. That then became used in the states which began the use of airliners to get place to place, making it easier and faster to get from point A to point B. That became a big hit in the nation for people cause of the convenience of getting onto a plane and not having to drive or anything you could just sleep if you