1. 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

2. 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?

3. What role did women serve in WWI?
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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Exit Ticket
What role did women serve in WWI? Name AT LEAST FIVE jobs/duties