World War I and Women´s Right Movement in America

Until the 1910’s America had its fair share of problems, but they had always been problems that were taken care of inside of its own borders. The first time America got involved in an international affair it would only make sense that it would lead to the First World War. This also brought on another problem inside of America because women had been put into the workforce and they didn’t want to give that up causing them to make the final push for women rights. America had made a name for itself by the end of this era. It had shaken the world in the First World War and had finally over, the course of many years, recognized the rights of all women in the United States.

World war one started across the globe from the United States and didn’t directly involve us at all. Serbia and Austria-Hungary were having problems in government and then on June 28, 1914 a Serbian nationalist assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to Austria-Hungary's throne, and his wife, Sophie. The Serbian nationalists name was Gavrilo Princip; you could say this man is responsible for the next five years and all the death that followed. This one man’s act of hatred towards another country had begun a war that will always be known as the Great War. The very same day after the assassinations Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia.
These two countries were relatively small and the war that would go on between the two would hardly be called a world war, but Serbia having Russia as its ally and Austria-Hungary having Germany as its ally turned what could hardly be called a battle into a full-fledged war when Germany had declared war on Russia at the beginning of august the very same year. France joins the war with Brittan against Germany making Russia an un...

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...resentatives and the Senate. It is then sent to the states for ratification and was ratified a year later giving women the right to vote and marked the beginning to women’s rights.
In the 1910’s the United states had proven its self against the world by dominating in the war showing how aggressive it can be and then showing a caring side by recognizing women’s right to vote. The war had initially be great for America boosting its economy making it a better place to live , but we got carless and got drug into the war causing some panic. The panic however was a good test of our strength as a country and also helped realize the equality of women and their ability to vote for themselves changing America for the better. America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men – Woodrow Wilson.