8. how much social change did the war bring

Question 1

The reaction against change may have been even greater than in the period after 1918

Answer 1

1. The cold war encouraged a social conservatism
2. The extended period of prosperity and the growth of suburban American tended to reinforce traditional attitudes
3. changes in rights tended to be focused on AA rather than on women

Question 2

how many killed in accidents in ammunition factories

Answer 2

37,000

Question 3

Changes Experienced

Answer 3

Had done new jobs and taken more responsibilities
Had travelled more inside and outside of USA
Had been subject of propaganda campaigns which encouraged them to be adventurous and showed them in new roles

Question 4

Arguably Ww2 had taken social change much further than the first despite the fact

Answer 4

no symbolic change like gaining the vote

Question 5

Dynamic leaders emerged on par with

Answer 5

suffrage leaders and the women who led the temperance movement

Question 6

More women going into

Answer 6

higher education, more into professions, more had taken a leading part in civil rights movements, more were using birth control

Question 7

By early 1960s there was a reaction against

Answer 7

disappointment of 1940s and 1950s = stage was set for what has been called the ‘New Feminism’

Question 8

Most significant victory was not a political one like suffrage issue but a social one

Answer 8

decision of Roe v. Wade (1973)