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1)Changing roles for women at home.
2)New technology of the warBy:Cristina Carr
Mr Hunt
5th Period
Changing roles for women at home
• Women were involved with:
- knitting socks for solders
- as well as other voluntary work
- women had to work for the sake of there family
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Women Started Working
• By 1914 nearly 5.09 million out of the 23.8 million women in Britain were working.
• Thousands worked in offices and large hangars used to build aircraft.
• Women also worked in the Red Cross
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• When women started to work to support there families that open new opportunities.
• Women weren’t expected to stay home with the children anymore
• Women could provide for themselves and there families
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• Women working while men stayed at home didn’t only benefit them and their families
• The businesses that would have closed because the men went off to war were able to stay open because women took there places in the jobs.
• Women working helped the economy
• One long term affect of women working is
- women showed that they were capable or keeping the home up, taking care of the family, and working
- Women equality started to rise
- they got paid 2/3 of what the men got which was better than what it was 1/2
• Nursing became almost the only area of female contribution that involved being at the front and experiencing the war.
• The only country to deploy female combat troops in substantial numbers was the Russian Provisonal Government in 1917
• Women working caused women’s suffrage years after world war 1
New Technologies of the War
• Technology during world war one started a new trend
- Industrialism
- Mass production of weapons for the war
-future forms of weapons
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• Some new Weapons -bolt-action -rifels -artillery -hydraulic recoil mechanisms
-chemicals-hand grenades
new firepower made defense almost invincible and attack almost impossible
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Trench Warfare
• Trench warfare led to the development of the pill box
-a hardened blockhouse that could be used to deliver machine gun fire
-a hardened blockhouse that could be used to deliver machine gun fire
Artillery
• The first Box Barrage was fired 1915
• The wire cutter was specifically made to explode on contact with wire
• The first ant-aircraft gun was designed out of necessity
• This gun was used by the germans in wwi
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• Indirect counter battery fire: was developed for the first time in history
• Flash spotting: was invented for location and destruction of enemy batteries
• factors such as weather, air temperature, and barrel wear: could for the first time be accurately measured and taken into account when firing indirectly
Artillery cont.
• The majority of casualties inflicted during the war were the result of artillery fire.
• These weapons affected the future of weapons in war it jump started the inventions
• Types of weapons
-Artillery
-Poison gas
-Air warfare
-Tanks
-Naval Warfare
-Submarines
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