HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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women in several countries gained the right to vote
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women were considered equal to men
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women’s wages increased after the war was over
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women were allowed to join the military
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Detailed explanation-1: -The mainstream suffragists’ decision to focus on the nation’s needs during this time of crisis proved to help their cause. Their activities in support of the war helped convince many Americans, including President Woodrow Wilson, that all of the country’s female citizens deserved the right to vote.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1906, the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland, which later became the Republic of Finland, was the first country in the world to give all women and all men both the right to vote and the right to run for office.
Detailed explanation-3: -But for almost 100 years, women (and men) had been fighting for women’s suffrage: They had made speeches, signed petitions, marched in parades and argued over and over again that women, like men, deserved all of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. The leaders of this campaign-women like Susan B.
Detailed explanation-4: -The fight for the right to vote continued through an international suffrage movement during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.It was finally in 1946 that women in France won the right to vote.