Good Morning!!!! NVC Warm-up: Propaganda Analysis Women in WWI Essential Question: What was the role of women in WWI? Homework: WWI Project DUE April 1
Analyze the propaganda image: Source: Great Britain, 1915 Analyze the propaganda image: What symbols/images do you see? Based on the symbols/images, what is the message? What role should women serve in WWI?
What role did women serve in WWI? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOLlDSbe4y8 Nurses Provided food Translators Served in the army and the marines Seamstresses (make clothes) Often volunteered YMCA Worked in the Red Cross (medical organization) Overall new opportunities Communication operators
Women as Nurses Nursing was the most common way women contributed in WWI Many of them were volunteers Hundreds of thousands served Thousands died in action
Famous Nurses Edith Cavell: British nurse Caught behind enemy lines when Germans invade Belgium Could have escaped, but sets up hospital she helps wounded soldiers and smuggles them out of the country "I can’t stop while there are lives to be saved“ 1915 captured by Germans and executed
Women in Disguise Many women wanted to do more Dorothy Lawrence: disguised herself as a man to join the English Army Flora Sandes: British nurse that joined the Serbian army First woman to become an officer in the military “nearly mad with joy” at being able to fight Won several medals for valor Milunka Savić: Serbian war heroine, most decorated female soldier of all time
Women in Action Russia only country to actively use women as soldiers in combat Women’s Battalion of Death: Elite Russian military units Called into action against Germans in 1917 Pushed past THREE German trenches before finally forced back 13,000 Women joined US Navy and Marines Didn’t see any combat
Women in the Air Eugenie Shakhovskaya: Russian Princess becomes first ever female combat pilot Flew Reconnaissance missions for Russia Shot down behind enemy lines, executed by firing squad
Exit Ticket What role did women serve in WWI? Name AT LEAST FIVE jobs/duties