Learn about women's important contributions during World War II. Get to know the important figures who helped the Axis and Allied Powers during the war.Updated: 11/21/2023 Women in World War 2 World War 2 (WW2) erupted in 1939, when Hitler invaded Poland, and ended in 1945, after Germa...
That Iva and Fanny had a sense of adventure is clear. These intrepid, spirited young women, not only helped win the war, but were instrumental in advancing the cause for women’s suffrage. What they both had in common was that they were firstborn children, and this m...
No doubt among those who worked at one time or other for the Red Cross, British nurse Edith Cavell stands our as one true war heroine. She was executed in 1915 by the Germans for having helped literally hundreds of soldiers of the Allied forces to escape from the Belgian hospital she ran...
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Christopher W. Meagher of Midland Beach, KIA in Vietnam, 1969. (Submitted by Brendan Shay) The Four Sellenthin Brothers served together during WW II. “Unlike the Sullivan Brothers who served together and were lost, the four Sellenthins returned safely to Staten Island,” Mary ...
A definitive declarative statement is made in the 9th line of the poem, “They’re going to make their end up”, Pope is manifesting her confidence in the women of Britain who are serving their country by being the workforce. The shift in the gender roles is empowering for women during ...
Ukrainian communists implemented a policy of Ukrainization through educational and cultural activities. This rebirth of Ukrainian culture ended abruptly at the time of the Stalin's genocidal famine of 1933. This famine killed up to seven million Ukrainians, mostly peasants who had preserved the agricu...
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