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World War 1 Topics

Diseases

Women

Diseases in WW1

Diseases were the major causes of death during both war and peace. Most of today's vaccines for diseases and flus weren’t around then. Disease caused more deaths to the American Army than other enemies did. Meningitis, pneumonia, and more serious diseases were a great threat. Colds and influenza were major and very common issues for people. Troops crossing seas usually arrived at their destination infected with a disease. It was childhood diseases that affected many soldiers because they never had the vaccinations kids get nowadays when they're little. Tuberculosis was also a major disease at this time, the army wouldn't accept and recuriot with TB. They would discharge and soldier who developed it. Were lucky today to have shots given to us as kids to prevent us from ending up unfortunately like many of these American soldiers.

Women in WW1

Many women were blocked from voting or serving in military combat roles so the war was an opportunity to serve their country and to gain independence and women’s rights. Women were able to step up and fill all of the manufacturing, agricultural, nurse, doctor, ambulance driver, and translator jobs. By 1917 1.4 million German women were employed in the war labor force. British women had also started serving in uniform in the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force. Since most women were taking male jobs in the States, African women finally got to get real jobs in offices and factories. In a way, if world war 1 never happened, women might not have gained the rights they were recieved then until much later.