Final Paper
Essay 1: The role of the United States in the larger world has changed dramatically since the start of the twentieth century. Starting in 1900, describe the role the US has played in the world. Terms to discuss: Cold War, containment, détente, deterrence, Fourteen Points, Good Neighbor policy, Iraq War, isolationism, Marshall Plan, Monroe Doctrine, 9/11, Vietnam War, World War I, World War II
Before the 1900s the United States was a country that did not have that big of a role in what happened over in Europe and Asia. At the beginning of the 1900s the United States was a little shy to get involved in conflicts. By the 1990’s the United States had demonstrated why they were one of the strongest superpowers in the world. Over the …show more content…
2015, 590). One of the opportunities was that both men and women were sent over to help in the fight of World War I (Roark et al. 2015, 590). The men fought and the women were used mainly as nurse and a couple of other odd jobs like telephone operators and war correspondents (Roark et al. 2015, 590). At home in America, women were enjoying the war. Many women took advantage of all of the men being shipped off to Europe which left thousands of jobs open for them to work. Most of these jobs came from the factories producing military equipment needed over in Europe. On the political front the women’s rights movement progressed to a new step by women finally received the right to vote with the passing of the nineteenth amendment (Roark et al. 2015, 591 592). With the right to vote everything change for women. Instead of being treated like a piece of property they were treated like a free person. With feeling like a free person they had a totally new outlook at the world with starting to get more jobs and more women went to college (Roark et al. 2015, 614 615). During this time women were still having problems by men did not want women to vote so they placed all kinds of rules on voting to scare women away (Roark et al. 2015, 615). The flapper style came out during this time period. The flapper style was a makeover for women by letting …show more content…
Like in World War I when all of the men were shipped out to fight there were a ton of open jobs in industrial factories to help make military machinery (Roark et al. 2015, 677). To help motivate women to work in the factories the United States created propaganda posters. One of the most famous posters from World War II was a poster of a lady on it looking like she was working in a factory with a rivet gun (Roark et al. 2015, 677). The poster was called Rosie the Riveter (Roark et al. 2015, 677). The women who were stuck at home with children or stuck doing chores helped out the wartime cause by starting victory gardens and recycling precious material that could be reused (Roark et al. 2015, 677). World War II helped women gain ground on having the same rights as
Essay 1: The role of the United States in the larger world has changed dramatically since the start of the twentieth century. Starting in 1900, describe the role the US has played in the world. Terms to discuss: Cold War, containment, détente, deterrence, Fourteen Points, Good Neighbor policy, Iraq War, isolationism, Marshall Plan, Monroe Doctrine, 9/11, Vietnam War, World War I, World War II
Before the 1900s the United States was a country that did not have that big of a role in what happened over in Europe and Asia. At the beginning of the 1900s the United States was a little shy to get involved in conflicts. By the 1990’s the United States had demonstrated why they were one of the strongest superpowers in the world. Over the …show more content…
2015, 590). One of the opportunities was that both men and women were sent over to help in the fight of World War I (Roark et al. 2015, 590). The men fought and the women were used mainly as nurse and a couple of other odd jobs like telephone operators and war correspondents (Roark et al. 2015, 590). At home in America, women were enjoying the war. Many women took advantage of all of the men being shipped off to Europe which left thousands of jobs open for them to work. Most of these jobs came from the factories producing military equipment needed over in Europe. On the political front the women’s rights movement progressed to a new step by women finally received the right to vote with the passing of the nineteenth amendment (Roark et al. 2015, 591 592). With the right to vote everything change for women. Instead of being treated like a piece of property they were treated like a free person. With feeling like a free person they had a totally new outlook at the world with starting to get more jobs and more women went to college (Roark et al. 2015, 614 615). During this time women were still having problems by men did not want women to vote so they placed all kinds of rules on voting to scare women away (Roark et al. 2015, 615). The flapper style came out during this time period. The flapper style was a makeover for women by letting …show more content…
Like in World War I when all of the men were shipped out to fight there were a ton of open jobs in industrial factories to help make military machinery (Roark et al. 2015, 677). To help motivate women to work in the factories the United States created propaganda posters. One of the most famous posters from World War II was a poster of a lady on it looking like she was working in a factory with a rivet gun (Roark et al. 2015, 677). The poster was called Rosie the Riveter (Roark et al. 2015, 677). The women who were stuck at home with children or stuck doing chores helped out the wartime cause by starting victory gardens and recycling precious material that could be reused (Roark et al. 2015, 677). World War II helped women gain ground on having the same rights as