During both world wars, women were required to undertake new roles in their respective national war efforts. Women across the world experienced severe...

Canadian women in the world wars became indispensable because the world wars were total wars that required the maximum effort of the civilian population...

Women's roles in the World Wars Women in the World War I Home front during World War I Australian women during World War I Belgium in World War I British...

Women in World War I were mobilized in unprecedented numbers on all sides. The vast majority of these women were drafted into the civilian work force...

Women took on many different roles during World War II, including as combatants and workers on the home front. The war involved global conflict on an unprecedented...

world wars, such as the Nine Years' War, the War of the Spanish Succession, the Seven Years' War, the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the Cold...

The Women's Land Army (WLA) was a British civilian organisation created in 1917 by the Board of Agriculture during the First World War to bring women...

two wars became World War II in 1941. Other proposed starting dates for World War II include the Italian invasion of Abyssinia on 3 October 1935. The British...

events over the period of World War II. Timeline of events preceding World War II Timeline of World War II (1939) Timeline of World War II (1940) Timeline...

The causes of World War II have been given considerable attention by historians. The immediate precipitating event was the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany...

League of Nations. Members of the United Nations agreed to outlaw wars of aggression in an attempt to avoid a third world war. The devastated great powers of...

war to end all wars" due to their perception of its unparalleled scale, devastation, and loss of life. The first recorded use of the term First World...

The Monument to the Women of World War II is a British national war memorial situated on Whitehall in London next to the Cenotaph at the end of Downing...

women played an important role in World War II (whose Eastern Front was known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union). While most worked in industry...

Karen (2011). "Mobilizing Women for War: The History, Historiography, and Memory of German Women's War Service in the Two World Wars". Journal of Military...

The List of theatres and campaigns of World War II subdivides military operations of World War II and contemporary wars by war, then by theater and then...

Riveter became the subject and title of a Hollywood film in 1944. Because the world wars were total wars, which required governments to utilize their entire...

and Canada in World Wars I and II (3 vol 2006) Frank, Lisa Tendrich. An Encyclopedia of American Women at War: From the Home Front to the Battlefields...

World War II saw the largest scale of war crimes and crimes against humanity ever committed in an armed conflict, mostly against civilians and specific...

American women in World War II became involved in many tasks they rarely had before; as the war involved global conflict on an unprecedented scale, the absolute...

World War I marked the first war in which American women were allowed to enlist in the armed forces. While thousands of women did join branches of the...

American merchant ships in the North Atlantic. Wilson then asked Congress for "a war to end all wars" that would "make the world safe for democracy", and...

Historians and the Writing of the World Wars (UBC Press, 2011). Granatstein, J. L."'What is to be Done?' The Future of Canadian Second World War History" Canadian...

Operation Outward Women in the World Wars Women's Royal Air Force (World War One) Women's Auxiliary Air Force Women's Royal Air Force Women's Royal Army Corps...

World War II, see Diplomatic history of World War II. Below is a table showing the outbreak of wars between nations which occurred during World War II...

Women in the Vietnam War were active in a large variety of roles, making significant impacts on the War and with the War having significant impacts on...

participated in the Second World War initially in a defensive war against the Soviet Union, followed by another, this time offensive, war against the Soviet...

World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history. An estimated total of 70–85 million people perished, or about 3% of the estimated global population...

During World War I and World War II, Switzerland maintained armed neutrality, and was not invaded by its neighbors, in part because of its topography...

The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose...