Good Afternoon!! NVC Warm-up: Propaganda Analysis Women in WWI Essential Question: What role did women serve in WWI? Homework: WWI Project DUE April 2/3

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

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