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Unit 1: Change and conflict (1918 to 1939)
Quick questions on Women and social change in interwar Europe and America 1918-1939: VCE Modern History Unit 1
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What is the New Woman?Show answer
The "New Woman" of the 1920s was an urban figure: bobbed hair, shorter skirts, lipstick, cigarettes, paid work and increasingly access to contraception. The figure had different national versions.
What is women's work?Show answer
WWI had drawn women into munitions, transport and clerical work. After demobilisation, most lost industrial jobs, but the longer trend was towards clerical and service work, which remained female after 1918.
What is soviet women under Stalin?Show answer
Soviet policy after 1917 was officially the most radical. The 1918 Family Code allowed civil marriage and easy divorce; the Bolsheviks legalised abortion in 1920 (the first state in the world to do so); the 1936 Constitution declared women equal in employment, pay, social insurance and education.
What is q1?Show answer
"Women's lives were transformed in interwar Europe and America." To what extent do you agree? [10 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Explain how fascist and Nazi regimes sought to reverse women's gains. [6 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Compare the experience of Soviet and American women in the 1930s. [6 marks]
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