5. The political campaign for women in USA (1865-1960) - Impact of WWI
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- Created on: 04-06-17 15:21
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- The political campaign for women in USA (1865-1960) - Impact of WWI
- Support given by women to a Women's Peace Party (called to end war) - this showed need to maintain support for war
- Offered opportunities for women to gain rights
- Increased economic activity meant that women's contributions to workforce was important
- Allied Propaganda and Britain against autocratic and militarist Germany shifted opinion
- How could one fight for democracy but keep women disenfranchised?
- States more receptive to NAWSA arguments
- e.g. New York and Illnois enfranchised women in 1917
- NAWSA targeted anti-suffrage senators and some were defeated
- 3 million more women working in factories than 1865
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