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| Sov group of women who flew at night. Germs respected and feared these "night witches" Showed women could be effective even in combat. Often worked recon. Sov's went the farthest in use of women |
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| Flew in 588th, downed 9 aircraft in 12 combat missions. Showed that women could be effective in combat. Was recognized by German pilots surrounded and shot down and killed |
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| Women's Army Corps: assisted troops in anyway except in combat/shooting. Integral part of war effort. Mechanics, cryptographers, mechanics, arial photo analysts, translators, etc. |
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| Women Accepted for Volunteers for Emergency Service: navy division. Had 86k. Showed women had a part bigger than just the factory workers. |
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| Women represented 85% of the employees at BP. Showed that women could handle administrative duties (didn't do the math and science shit) |
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| Special Operations Executive. Women worked in this division as spies |
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| Aussie spy who, 26, who worked in SOE. Parachuted to france to find peeps in the resistance. Personally led a raid on the Gestapo headquarters |
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| This advert called upon women to join the workforce with the fellas abroad. In '44 chicks were 36% of workforce. After the war the women keep their sense of purpose which leads to civil rights and feminist movements |
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| Red Army rapes in Germany, 1945 |
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| Red's rape any women they could get their hands on as the move inward Germany. Over 2 mill chicks suffer this fate. |
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| Japs subjected Korean chicks to be these- prostitutes. Shows that in some parts of the world women are still treated very poorly. |
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| Primary combat role of British women in the War |
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| Primarily gunners and radar readers. Stats showed that co-ed units were more effective than all male ones. Proves that chicks can be effective even with weapons |
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| Three reasons for the cultural prohibition of women in combat |
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- peeps thought they ere mentally and physically not strong enough to fight
- they were natural nurtures -this would make them bad soldiers
- Peeps thought that co ed army units would wanna fuck
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| Long term impact of the war on women's status in society |
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- Fed gov sets up daycare
- women eventually get equal pay
- they become autonomous
- realize that they can work too
- leads to women's civil rights and feminist movements
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| Lazy but brilliant, thought experiments were tedious. A pacifist, became a father of the atomic bomb. Believe humans were more rational than they showed. Left Germany with Einstein. Got a secret patent for his discovery on neutron splitting. Sent letter to FDR about it and had Einstein sign it. |
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| Szilard's prof at Berlin. Szilard solved his unsolvable shit. Left to America when H came to power. Became Harvard prof. Signed Szilard's shit |
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| Writer of The World Set Free, a book about a problem that leads to atomic war, survivors create world gov. Inspires Szilard's idea |
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| Started after Alex Sax described Szilard's letter to FDR. Sends Szilard to Chi, and Einstein to NYC. Leads to the development of the A-bomb |
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| H.G. Wells' sci fi novel that gave Szilard the inspiration for his find on nuclear chain reactions for a bombs. Said that if we could tap into the atom we'd have mad energy. And promoted world gob. MAD AHEAD OF IT'S TIME |
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| Idea by Szilard that as a Neutron splits and continues to split exponentially as it gets hit by other neutrons of the same element it would release energy in the form of heat leading to an explosion |
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| Scientist who comes to US and says that Two Germ physicists have created nuclear fission with Uranium. (1939) Prompts Szilard to get to da lab and figure shit out |
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| Site for testing a bomb (trinity) scientists watched from 25 miles away and feared that they would ignite the atmosphere |
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| Primary Military leader on on Manhattan project. Beefed with Szilard. Leo says we need to be morally responsible. Groves doesn't trust him. Puts FBI agent to shadow him |
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| Stalin very much wanted GB and USA to open up a second front so as to help them win the war. Up till 43 however, we weren't ready cuz the Germs were winning the Atlantic. Stalin makes us set a date for D-Day, at Teheran. |
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| Set for May 1, 1944, for US and GB to invade German occupied France. Mad arguments between the big three here because this was mad dangerous and Stalin thought they weren't doing enough. |
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| October, '44. Winny C goes to meet Stalin without FDR to talk about post-war Europe, which he was very much worried about. Him and Stalin split a number of countries by percentage. |
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| Feb, '45. Known as the time Europe was set. Peeps say that FDR may have given Stalin too much, but he was trying to get him to go to war with Japs and buy into UN. Here the different agendas of the three become clear. Win wants restoration of British empire, Stal wants string of buffer states along western boarder for security, and FDR visions a post-war would with trade and open economy in which US had a dominant view. |
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| United Nations Organization |
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| Idea of an entity of nations with one governing body which controlled crime, trade, etc. American idea, FDR wanted open trade and commerce and wanted Stalin in cuz he knew that russians were fucking powerful |
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| Big three is no longer: Atlee and Truman. We have a bit more leverage cuz we know trinity worked. Truman did not support the reparations after the war that FDR had promised. US and GB realize the USSR as a bigger threat than the Nazis |
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| Prez after FDR dies in 45 and represents Merica at Potsdam. Takes away the reparations that FDR promised he would make Germs pay USSR. Implemented Marshall Plan to reneg spread of Communism. Okayed the A Bomb |
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| I think this one's obvi, right? |
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