Women in the U.S. Military Timeline

By WAAC History Fair

  • Edith Nourse Rogers introduces the WAAC bill

  • Pearl Harbor was Attacked

  • President Roosevelt Declares War on Japan

  • Edith Nourse Rogers reintroduces bill for WAAC

  • Congress passes law to create WAAC

  • President Roosevelt signs bill to create WAAC

  • Oveta Culp Hobby was Appointed First Director of the WAAC

  • WAVES were created

  • SPARS Were Created

  • Congress Authorized WAC

  • Six Became Warrant Officers in the WAC

  • Service Women were Authorized in the WAC

  • First WACs to Serve in the Pacific Arrived in Austrailia

  • Allowed to Serve in Hawaii and Alaska

  • Joy Hancock was Named Assistant Director of WAVES

  • SPARS Were Disbanded

  • Navy was authorized to offer regular commissions to women

  • Women Regained Admittance in the Coast Guard

  • Women Could Sign up for Active Duty

  • Women Were able to Become Military Generals

  • SPARS Was Terminated

  • WAC was Disestablished