We often think that the role of women in western societies prior to the 1960s was largely unchanging: a matter of doing what women were expected to do. during world war ii, however, the roles of women silently upended conventional ideas about gender roles. women worked as bomb makers and in factories and were later revealed as having been a key part of the code-breaking effort that won the war. these examples lend insight into how we create our identities through interactions and not through fixed definitions. as such, they reflect ideas posited by

Which european country lost control of lebanon and syria-their middle east mandates-in the 1940s? a) britain b) france c) germany d) italy

Who became a national hero when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in montgomery, alabama? a) rosa parks b) medger evers c) coretta scott king d) martin luther king jr.

Which best explains why the supreme court’s decision in plessy v. ferguson was unconstitutional? the supreme court’s ruling allowed states to deny equal protection to any person within its jurisdiction. since the 14th amendment did not make concessions for people born outside the us, the supreme court’s decision could not be applied. the supreme court’s decision gave individual states the freedom to make their own laws in relation to non-whites. since segregation laws did not provide equal protections or liberties to non-whites, the ruling was not consistent with the 14th amendment.