Social Developments: All Developments for Women from 1920 to 1945

Question 1

How did Flappers style their hair?

Answer 1

In a bob style

Question 2

What decade were flappers mostly confined to?

Answer 2

1920s

Question 3

What film came out in 1920 inspiring the “Flapper” look?

Answer 3

The Flapper

Question 4

What did Flappers help to do for Jazz?

Answer 4

Helped to bring it to white communities

Question 5

Which group of women in American society wore make up before flappers?

Answer 5

Only prostitutes usually wore makeup

Question 6

What caused the flapper style to come to an end? Why?

Answer 6

The October 1929 Wall Street Crash, most flappers could no longer afford the lifestyle

Question 7

What did many older women set up to try and combat flappers?

Answer 7

Anti-Flirt Leagues

Question 7

What did elderly women think about flappers?

Answer 7

They opposed them

Question 8

When did the Hays Codes start to be implemented in films?

Answer 8

1930

Question 9

What was the aim of the Hays Codes?

Answer 9

To preserve moral decency in films

Question 10

Under the Hays Codes, how did “Good Girl” films have to end?

Answer 10

They had to have happy endings

Question 11

Under the Hays Codes, how did “Bad Girl” films have to end?

Answer 11

They had to have sad endings

Question 12

Which governmental position was Frances Perkins given?

Answer 12

Secretary of Labor

Question 13

Why did the Hays codes follow these endings for these specific films?

Answer 13

To make the audience know that doing bad things would not result in good endings

Question 13

What year did Arkansas get their first female senator?

Answer 13

1932

Question 14

What political position did a woman gain in 1925?

Answer 14

Governer of Wyoming

Question 15

How many women got jobs to help with the WWII effort in 1944 alone?

Answer 15

6.5 million

Question 15

How many women had helped in the WWI effort?

Answer 15

1 million

Question 15

What years was Frances Perkins Secretary of Labor from?

Answer 15

1933 to 1945

Question 16

What fraction of university degrees went to women in 1930?

Answer 16

1/3

Question 17

Between which 10 years did 2 million more women have jobs?

Answer 17

Between 1920 and 1930

Question 17

What year did some women strike in a textiles factory and in which state?

Answer 17

Striked in 1927, in Tennessee

Question 17

By what factor did the amount of women in employment who were managers increase from 1900 to 1930?

Answer 17

Increased by a factor of 3

Question 18

Why did the number of female doctors decline in the 1920s?

Answer 18

Medical schools would only let 5% of their students be women

Question 19

Which side did the government take during the 1927 Tennessee textile strike?

Answer 19

Took the side of the employers

Question 20

What organisation did Margaret Sanger form (ABCL) and what year?

Answer 20

American Birth Control League, formed in 1921

Question 20

What form of abortions did women have to take due to proper abortions being illegal?

Answer 20

Backstreet abortions

Question 21

What amendment did feminist movements fail to pass in the 1920s?

Answer 21

Equal Rights Amendment

Question 22

What would the Equal Rights Amendment have done?

Answer 22

Given women equal rights to men

Question 23

Which group of people in American society supported the American Birth Control League?

Answer 23

Eugenics

Question 23

How many women died from backstreet abortions a year in the 1920s?

Answer 23

50,000 women

Question 24

Which group of people did Margaret Sanger start to support the sterilisation of?

Answer 24

Sterilisation of disabled people

Question 25

Why did Eugenics support the American Birth Control League?

Answer 25

They believed it would help to stop poor people spreading inferior genes

Question 26

How many disabled people were sterilised in the USA during the 1920s?

Answer 26

60,000 disabled people

Question 27

What did Eleanor Roosevelt advocate for?

Answer 27

Racial equality

Question 28

Who was the First Lady from 1933 to 1945?

Answer 28

Eleanor Roosevelt

Question 29

How did Eleanor Roosevelt sometimes respond to some of FDR's policies?

Answer 29

She spoke against them

Question 30

What did Eleanor Roosevelt host for black girls in 1936? Where?

Answer 30

She hosted a garden party for black girls in the White House garden

Question 31

In what year during WWII did 6 million women join the American workforce?

Answer 31

1944

Question 32

What was a limitation of female employment after World War II?

Answer 32

They returned back to their traditional roles

Question 33

What percentage of women were employed by 1945?

Answer 33

60%

Question 34

What percentage of employees in munitions were women during WWII?

Answer 34

50% of employees

Question 35

What percentage of mens wages did women get paid during WWII?

Answer 35

50% of mens wages

Question 35

What did a 1942 poll show about how Americans felt with women in the workforce?

Answer 35

60% were in favour of it