Rosie The Riveter Movement Research Paper

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The Rosie the Riveter movement was inspired by a group of women in World War II. Woman worked in metal factories while the men fought in war.       "On Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, 183 Japanese planes started to attack in America’s Hickam Field, Pearl Harbor. The results were 2,433 deaths, the destruction of 18 U.S. warships and 188 airplanes. The surprise attack stunned lots of people and President Roosevelt quickly called the United States to war.       With American men in the war effort, the work force went down fast. Women stepped in to "man" the assembly lines in the factories and to produce the many needed items for the current war. Filling a shortage of manpower, the factory gates flooded with an army of woman power. Mothers, daughters,

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