WOMS300- World War II Flashcards
The New Deal
was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States
-Federal and state programs
-Protection for workers
-Unemployment, sickness, old-age security
Women’s Involvment in the New Deal
-Get americans out of the great depression
-New deal acts of legislation
-Works progress administration
-Civilian conservative corps
-Women- active, public roles
-Women in government positions
-Eleanore roosevelt
-Women’s division of the democratic national committee
Molly Dewson
-Suffrage
-Wages
-48 hour work week
-Democratic party
Frances Perkins
-Reformer
-first women appointed to the US cabinet
-Settlement housing
-Woman and labor
-Served under roosevelt
-New deal acts of legislation
-Minimum wage
-Social security
Children and Labor Laws
-banned child labor
-set a minimum wage
-gave a maximum work week
Mary Mcleod Bethune
-Educator, activist
-Hospital
-educated black youth
-New deal programs
-Leader and organizer - organizations
Women’s Army Corps
-non combat jobs
-faced discrimination
-were often not welcomed to serve
Food Rationing
-women would cut down and tailor what they were buying and how much of it
-women worked on farms to help with ratioining
-victory Gardens - community and home gardens to help feed families
Women in Industrial Manufacturing Jobs
-womens worked in factories for war materials
-more jobs in the cities and north
Women’s Organizations
-women volunterred
-making packages for troops
-creatinf care packages
Rosie the Riveter
-assembly line worker
-imagine wasn’t popular until after the war
Propaganda
-people were cautious of conspiracy theories
-wanted people to be patriotic and supportive
-constant talk of “victory”
-disney helped making training videos
