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Section IV: World War II Title: Changing Gender Roles on the Home Front Grade Level: Middle/High School Objectives: Conduct historical research using the Museum’s collections of Rosie the Riveter artifacts and images. Analyze how World War II changed gender roles in U.S. society. Determine the societal impact of females holding industrial jobs during the war (numbers involved, effect on other relationships in society). National History Standards: Standards 4: Student Research Capabilities; Era 8:3: The causes and course of World War II, the character of the war at home and abroad, and its reshaping of the U.S. role in world affairs. Time: 45 minutes to introduce the project, plus in-class work time and any additional lessons on conducting historical research LESSON 10 Background: By the time the United States entered World War II in 1941, American defense industries were already churning out large numbers of planes and ships, trucks and tanks, guns and shells, supplies and equipment. Tons of war materials were being shipped to Britain and other nations battling the Axis. As America joined the fight, and battlefronts multiplied around the globe, demands on war production skyrocketed. Civilian industries re-tooled, manufacturing tanks instead of cars, parachutes instead of stockings, machine guns instead of Kleenex. And as men went off to war, six million women took their places on factory floors and assembly lines. Woman war worker coveralls National Museum of American History American industry and American workers produced most of the war matériel the United States and some forty other nations used to fight the war: 324,000 aircraft, 88,000 tanks, 8,800 warships, 5,600 merchant ships, 224,000 pieces of artillery, 2,382,000 trucks, 79,000 landing craft, 2,600,000 machine guns, 15,000,000 guns. 42 the price of freedom: americans at war gender roles on the home front
Woman welder Courtesy of National Archives Welding mask National Museum of American History “I worked the graveyard shift 12:00–8:00 a.m, in the shipyard. I had leather gloves, leather pants, big hood, goggles, and a leather jacket. They said you weld like you crochet.” —Katie Grant gender roles on the home front the price of freedom: americans at war 43
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