20TH CENTURY

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  • Triple Alliance

    Austria (+ Hungary) + Germani + Italy

  • Double Entente

    Russia + France, while Britain is in "splendid isolation"

  • death of Victoria

  • Period: to

    EDWARDIAN ERA

  • (♀) Women's Social and Political Union

    Suffragettes’ movement, which fought to conquer the right to vote. It was founded by Emmeline Pankhurst + her daughter Christabel

  • Entente Cordiale

    Britain + France

  • general elections

    Liberal Party wins
  • Period: to

    LIBERAL WELFARE REFORMS

    • (1908) the Old Age Pension Law: a pension for people over 70 who had a low income
    • free meals and medical inspections in schools
    • minimum fixed wages
    • insurance to support the unemployed
    • the industrial eight-hour working day
    • (1908) The Children's Act tried to protect the poor children from abuse and it invested money in education
    • (during George) the Health and Insurance Act was passed: it protected workers when they were ill or unemployed

  • Triple Entente

    Britain + France (Entente Cordiale) + Russia

  • the Old Age Pension Law

    It provides a pension for people over 70 who had a low income
  • Period: to

    GEORGE V'S GOVERNMENT

  • (☘️) Home Rule Bill

    It could give more power to the Irish while remaining within Britain

  • (♀) death of the martyr suffragette

    a young suffragette, who became the first martyr throwing herself under the King's horse at the Derby. Thanks to this event, the movement get more attention

  • assasination

  • (☘️) Republicans in Dublin

  • (⚔) execution of the Russian Tsar

    = revolutionary government took over

  • Poppy day

  • (♀) the representation of the people act

    Thanks to it, women over thirty were finally granted the right to vote

  • (☘️) born of Irish Parliament

    The Sinn Fein party set up it in Dublin

  • treaty of Versailles

    It imposes hard conditions to Germany = economic crisis

  • (☘️) creation of IRA + start of Irish civil war

    IRA: Irish Republican Army
  • Period: to

    BRITAIN DECLINE

  • (☘️) end of Irish civil war

  • (☘️) Irish Free State

  • born of BBC

  • Union Congress

    It proctects mines workers (the same year: > labor hours; < salary)

  • Trade Dispite Act

    It is against workers strikes

  • (♀) suffrage extended to women over twenty-one

  • Wall Street Crash

  • Period: to

    Great Depression

  • death of George V

    = Edward VIII at throne, but only for 10 months = George VI at throne, untile 1952
  • Period: to

    GEORGE VI'S GOVERNMENT

  • (⚔) Battle of Dunkerque

    = English and German bombers fighting in the skies over Sussex and Kent. It ends with Britain's win, but Hitler's Blitz. During it King George VI and his wife Elizabeth refused to leave London becoming symbols of resistance

  • (⚔) Operation Sea Lion

  • (⚔) End of Mussolini's Fascist regime (ITA)

  • Victory in Europe

  • (⚔) Hiroshima and Nakasaky bombing

  • conference in Yalta

    Roosevelt meets Stalin and Churchill and they decide to divide Germany into two zones (West and East) and to create the United Nations Organization

  • (☮) Marshall plan

    It intended: rebuild the economies of western Europe and to prevent the spread of communism in that region

  • Britain in NATO

    NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organization of the USA, France,Canada and other European states (defense created to prevent Soviet expansionism)

  • death of GEORGE VI

  • Warsaw Pact

    It is against NATO