Although this was a miniscule number compared to what other nations suffered, it was significant to America. Citizens felt lost and unrepresented of their war victories. The Allies did not recognize the huge part (of producing military weapons) America played in winning the war. Negative emotions produced by the war, and even the victory, were to soon start coming in to play in American …show more content…
The Women's Suffrage Movement was present throughout the war, but rose to more serious importance once the war ended. Women felt empowered by the fact that they were now able to work and they believed that if they could work, they could vote as well. President Wilson spoke for the Nineteenth Amendment January 9th, 1918 and within two-and-a-half years, the amendment was ratified. Carrie Chapman Catt, the president of the National American Women Suffrage Association, argued that "the greatest thing that came out of the war was the emancipation of women, for which no man fought" (Uschan 103). This is obviously a viewpoint specific to the women who were fighting for their suffrage, so most involved in the war would not agree. It was a very important change of American society