...During the Civil War, what happened off of the battlefield was of great importance to the success of the Civil War. The home front brought economic prosperity to many states in wartime production of numerous goods. Even though it may seem that the home front and the battle front were not immediately connected to each other, women and children played a big role in wartime production and the war itself while men were fighting. The Homefront had an immediate connection with the battlefront. (The Home) “The profound and abiding connections between the home and battlefront, the way the two can blur in the context of the Civil War experience.” (The Home) “The battlefront and Homefront merged for many southern women during the war” They were so close to the battlefront that they heard the nearby cannon fire. (Women) The Homefront and battlefront became “one and the same” during this time. Even the people who lived far from the fighting and where the battles took place, they still felt the harsh effect of the Civil War in every day of their daily lives. Family members attentively waited at home to hear what was happening in...
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...first federal law to promote equal opportunity and prohibit employment discrimination in the United States. This was intended to help African Americans and other minorities obtain jobs in the home front industry during World War II. Bracero Program Bracero Program and the significance with American in the home front is that it was a campaign that brought laborers to from Mexico to work on the West Coast to work on American farms, so they can harvest food to help Americans and the war effort. Internment Internment and the significance with American in the home front is that it was a temporally confinement of people, commonly in large groups without trial. This was a safety net for the Americans from saboteurs, espionage act or spies, so Japanese-Americans and German American were kept confine in an internment camp until the war ended or less intense. 442nd Regimental Combat team 442nd Regimental Combat team and the significance with American in the home front is that it was an all Nisei (Japanese who is born in a new country) group that fought bravely in the war. They fought against the Italian and became one of...
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...American women turned their attention to the world outside the home. This was the first time in the history of United States that Women actively participated during the Civil War, and the best part is that the participation of the women from the northern and southern side. Northern women played a significant role on the Union side of civil war while Southern War played a significant role on the Confederate side of the Civil War. Although there is not much difference as how actively women from north and south put themselves on the war from as it was almost equal but the major difference was the percentage of participation on the northern front was much more from women as compared to the southern end. Unfortunately, the economy in the south would be the falter to its defeat. However, even though it was wrong and immoral, the South had the upper hand by having slaves do the work that the women did in the north. During the Civil War of 1861, women and men came together to help fight for the cause. In the Northern states, women organized ladies' aid societies to supply the Union troops with everything they needed, from food to clothing to cash. But many women wanted to take a more active role in the war effort. Women were inspired by the work of Florence Nightingale and her fellow nurses in the Crimean War, that they tried to find a way to work on the front lines, caring for sick and injured soldiers and keeping...
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...The Supporting Role of Women in the First World War Topic #74: What Role did Women Play in the First World War Name: Nicole Terry Student Number: 0523481 Professor: Keith Walden Teacher Assistant: Alison Perry Date: March 12, 2014 Course: History 1500 The Great War began in August 1914 as a result of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. With the initiation of the war the call for citizens to bravely fight for their county was shortly followed. But the call for action did not only signify male participation, but it required the mobilization of women as well. “Thus from the very start, wartime media … called upon women specifically” to support their country. During The Great War propaganda is essential to the mobilization of women. Women play a significant role in the First World War in providing a support system that help to reinforce their military. Women’s support is displayed in a variety of ways. The brave and the qualified women work alongside their male counterparts on the war front, as nurses and espionage members. While others provide support from the home front through the participation of females in the workplace and continuing to be the primary caregiver for the households and children. The importance of female involvement in The Great War lies in the significant consequences women’s participation has had subsequently. Without women’s involvement the story of the war would differ greatly. Women roles as nurses in the Great War is crucial to the support...
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...March 24, 2015 History Of Food in America Cookbook Analysis: How To Cook A Wolf Citation: Fisher, Mary Frances Kennedy. How to Cook a Wolf. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1942. Print. About The Book: 1. Who wrote or complied it? What can you find out about the authors or editors? a. The cookbook “How to Cook a Wolf” was written by Mary Frances Kenney Fisher (AKA M.F.K. Fisher). The Duell, Sloan and Pearce publishing company, located in New York City, published the cookbook in 1942. M.F.K. Fisher was an iconic American food writer born in Albion, Michigan. Growing up in an Episcopalian Quaker community made her very literate at young age. After moving to California at young age and attending the University of California she met her future husband Alfred Young Fisher. The two spent their first years of marriage studying in Europe. She...
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...seeing her skills diminishing and finding her more and more useless, sought to sell her. So she ran. Although she successfully escaped, she went back, only to really escape the second time. Along with a third, and a fourth. In total, this woman would save around 70 of her friends and family, along with being a nurse, and spy for the Union during the Civil War. After the war, she would go on to become a women’s rights activist. Also, she...
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...Women were vital in staffing the war by encouraging men to enlist, even stating that they would not marry anyone who did not. The Civil War had a tremendous impact on everyone in America during the four years of a battle that claimed many lives and divided many families. Although, the civil war was known as a man’s fight the image women had during the civil was as nurses, spies, or ladies maintaining the house why the men are away. They even took arms and charged into battle, like the men. The women lied in camps, suffered in prison, and died for their causes. The daily lives and roles and responsibilities of women were greatly affected by the Civil War, both during and after the war. Women had a great effect in the civil war, as nurses, aides and spies being called the “angles in the battlefield”. Women had important roles in the U.S. Civil War, which lasted from 1861 through 1865. Some women joined organizations and worked during the Civil War. They joined the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, the Ladies Hospital Aid Society and the United States Christian Commission. These organizations prepared supplies and delivered them to battlefields and camps. They also collected money to send to the troops. Groups planned fairs, raffles and dances to raise money. They even set up hospitals in homes, churches and any other building near the front lines. When men left home to go to war, women became responsible for managing homes, businesses and farms. Women also worked in more personal...
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...The expansion of the Second World War across Europe assured the United States (U.S.) to convince the nation’s entire population to support the Allies. Nearly all the major combatants used women in additional supplementary military roles. The government notified women to the nation’s necessity for them to fill in the industrial labor force that was left vacant by widespread male enlistment. They urged women to work outside the home and businesses to stay open at night for working women. Women felt the patriotic need to enter the workforce and fill traditional male jobs. They performed myriad ways to participate in the war effort. They allowed U.S. government and industry to expand remarkably to meet the wartime needs. Roughly one out of every four married worked outside the home by 1945. Therefore, the Allies would not have defeated the Axis without the contribution of women to World War II, for...
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...On the day of his only daughter's wedding, Vito Corleone hears requests in his role as the Godfather, the Don of a New York crime family. Vito's youngest son, Michael, in a Marine Corps uniform, introduces his girlfriend, Kay Adams, to his family at the sprawling reception. Vito's godson Johnny Fontane, a popular singer, pleads for help in securing a coveted movie role, so Vito dispatches his consigliere, Tom Hagen, to Los Angeles to influence the abrasive studio head, Jack Woltz. Woltz is unmoved until the morning he wakes up in bed with the severed head of his prized stallion. Shortly before Christmas 1945, drug baron Virgil "The Turk" Sollozzo, backed by the Corleones' rivals, the Tattaglias, asks Vito for investment in the emerging drug trade and protection through his political connections. Vito disapproves of drug dealers, so he sends his enforcer, Luca Brasi, to spy on them. The family then receives two fish wrapped in Brasi's vest, imparting that he "sleeps with the fishes". An assassination attempt by Sollozzo's men lands Vito in the hospital, so his eldest son, Sonny, takes command. Sollozzo kidnaps Hagen to pressure Sonny to accept his deal. Michael thwarts a second assassination attempt on his father at the hospital; his jaw is broken by Police Captain McCluskey, who is also Sollozzo's bodyguard. Sonny retaliates for the attacks on his father by having Tattaglia's son killed. Michael comes up with a plan to hit Sollozzo and McCluskey: on the pretext of settling...
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...In 1945, the United States and Soviet Union were allies, together victorious in World War II, which ended with total victory for Soviet and American forces over Adolf Hitler's Nazi empire in Europe. Within just a few years, however, wartime allies became mortal enemies, locked in a global struggle, military, political, economic, ideological to prevail in a new "Cold War." (Causes of the Cold War Summary & Analysis) The name of the Cold War derive from the blameless and approachable relationship the United States and Russia had dating back from World War II. The war occurred from 1945 to 1980 and is considered the longest war America has ever fought. One of the most important aspects of the Cold War era that I have analyzed is the role the Bahamas played. The reason for this is the Bahamas is geographically located between the United States of America and Cuba. Throughout my interviews, I have found that the U.S. has use the Bahamas as a curtain to defend them from Cuba. They strategically setup missile and submarine bases on key islands located in the Bahamas. All in an effort to monitor soviet submarines heading to and from Cuba. One interviewer said as a child they enjoyed watching U.S. helicopters perform different operations performed on the island in preparation if Cuba was to strike. In my interviews account they recall key events such as the Korean War, the Cuban Crises, Creeping Socialism, and John F. Kennedy being newly elected President of the United States of America...
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...Furthermore, because the stigma of being gay spread to any of the person’s affiliates, the majority of their friends and family would remove their support, ultimately isolating and disadvantaging the entire community. Growing Anger In the late 1940s, government agencies like the FBI, under the direction of J. Edgar Hoover, used anticommunism and subsequently homophobia to expand their power by developing files on thousands of American citizens, including political dissenters, homosexuals, and other threats to American values, most of whom had no viable connection to communism. While there were most likely communist spies and people working against the American government, the vast majority of those jailed or deprived of their jobs were guilty of nothing more than holding unpopular beliefs or engaging in lawful political activism. The massive wave of terminations that followed in the wake of the Eisenhower’s Executive Order culminated in the loss of 5,000-10,000 gay, or presumed gay, workers. Because the order specifically banned government consultants from being gay and banned re-hiring someone who had been previously found and fired, the queer community, at large, suffered immense financial ruin. Additionally, as the government informed everyone the worker was related to, and had contact with, of the reason for...
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...Different Era in the History of Nursing From Dark Ages to Renaissance (THE MIDDLE AGES) During the late middle Ages (1000-1500) -the crowding and poor sanitation in the monasteries nurses went into the community. During this era hospitals were built and the number of medical schools increases. Between 1500 and 1860 (A.D.) -the Renaissance all affected nursing. As nursing was not valued as an intellectual endeavor it lost much of its economic support and social status. The nursing conditions were at their worst and have been called the dark period of nursing. New hospitals had been built but quickly became places of horror as unsanitary conditions caused them to be a source of epidemics and disease. In 1545 -the council of Trent decreed that every community of women should live in strict enclosure. It took over 200 years of resistance for women to overcome this decree. The nursing sisters of France made little or no resistance such that their professional standards deteriorated. In the late 1500's - several groups began nursing and tending the sick, poor, and dying. These groups were St. Francis de Sales, the Order of the Visitation of Mary, St. Vincent DePaul, the Sisters of Charity, Dames de Charite', Louise le Gras, Brothers Hospitallers of St. John, Albuquerque, Order of St. Augustine, St. Camillas De Lellis, Jeanne Biscot, and the Nursing Sisters of St. Joseph de La Fleche. Many of these people came from rich and influential families. The...
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...| Canadian History | People, Events, Concepts | | Genti Agako | 3/21/2013 | | Person/ Event/ Term | Identify | Historical Importance | Robert Borden | -Elected Conservative MP from Nova Scotia in 1896.-Prime Minister of Canada from 1911 to 1920.-Adopted the controversial policy of conscription in 1917.-Is regarded as one of Canada’s most successful prime ministers. | -He managed Canada’s war effort with great success and increased international status.-His handlings of wartime issues such as conscription remain controversial – he did initiate women’s right to vote in 1917 election.-Expanded Canada’s autonomy with Britain. | Schlieffen Plan | -German plan to avoid a two-front war by concentrating troops in the West and quickly defeating the French and then, if necessary, rushing those troops by rail to the East to face the Russians before they had time to mobilize fully. | -The Schlieffen Plan was the strategic plan for victory, in case of the instance where Germany would be fighting a war on two fronts. In order to speed up the process of the Schlieffen Plan and avoid a war on two fronts, Germany declared war on France and invaded Belgium.In defence of Belgium's neutral standing in the War, Britain declared war on Germany and thus the First World War began, therefore, the hastiness of German forces and the Schlieffen plan; had effectively sparked the First World War. | ...
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...Propaganda is a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position. As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda, in its most basic sense, presents information primarily to influence an audience. Propaganda often presents facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis, or uses loaded messages to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. The desired result is a change of the attitude toward the subject in the target audience to further a political agenda. Propaganda can be used as a form of political warfare. While the term propaganda has acquired a strongly negative connotation by association with its most manipulative and nationalistic examples, propaganda in its original sense is neutral. It may also be construed to refer to uses which are generally held to be somewhat benign or inoffensive, such as public health recommendations, signs encouraging citizens to participate in a census or election, or messages encouraging persons to report crimes to the police, among others. Propaganda was not invented by the Americans. It began with the Roman Catholic Committee for the Propagation of the Faith, an order of the church which was established by a papal bull in 1622. (Baran & Davis, 2013). Throughout the beginning of the twentieth century, the meaning of propaganda was debated as to whether or not it was a good or bad form of communication that could be corrupted...
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...Chanel ------------------------------------------------- World War II In 1939, at the beginning of World War II, Chanel closed her shops, maintaining her apartment situated above the couture house at 31 rue Cambon. She claimed that it was not a time for fashion.[18] Three thousand female employees lost their jobs.[39] The advent of war had given Chanel the opportunity to retaliate against those workers who, lobbying for fair wages and work hours, had closed down her business operation during the general labor strike in France in 1936. In closing her couture house, Chanel made a definitive statement of her political views. Her violent loathing of Jews, inculcated by her convent years and sharpened by her association with society elites had solidified her beliefs. She shared with most of her circle the conviction that Jews were a Bolshevik threat to Europe.[39] During the German occupation Chanel resided at the Hotel Ritz, which was also noteworthy for being the preferred place of residence for upper echelon German military staff. Her romantic liaison with Hans Günther von Dincklage, a German officer who had been an operative in military intelligence since 1920,[40] facilitated her arrangement to reside at the Ritz.[41] World War II, specifically the Nazi seizure of all Jewish-owned property and business enterprises, provided Chanel with the opportunity to gain the full monetary fortune generated by "Parfums Chanel" and its most profitable product, Chanel No. 5. The directors...
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