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Matrimonial Clauses Act (divorce)
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Married Women’s Property Act
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Dual Alliance (Germany and Austria-Hungary)
The Dual Alliance was a defensive alliance between Germany and Austria-Hungary, which was created by treaty on 7 October 1879 as part of Bismarck's system of alliances to prevent/limit war. In it, Germany and Austria-Hungary pledged to aid one another in case of an attack by Russia. Also, each state promised benevolent neutrality to the other if one of them was attacked by another European power (generally taken to be France, even more so after the Franco-Russian Alliance of 1894). -
2. 1882 – Triple Alliance: Italy joined the dual (France and Russia)
The Triple Alliance was the military alliance among Germany, Austria–Hungary, and Italy, (as opposing the Triple Entente which consisted of an alliance between Britain, France and Russia), that lasted from 1882 until World War I in 1914.Each member promised mutual support in the event of an attack by any other great power, or for Germany and Italy, an attack by France alone. -
Guardianship of Infants Act
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Franco-Russian Alliance against triple alliance
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The great powers in europe
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Poor people faced serious hardship
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Women’s Rights
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Women’s suffrage
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Entente Cordiale (Britain and France)
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Moroccan crisis
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Britain built the first Dreadnought
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Liberal government introduce social reforms
The Minority Report, combined with pressure from the general public, and the pressure from the Labour Party encouraged the Liberals to bring laws in that would deal with poverty -
The workmen’s Compensation Act
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Free medical inspections
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Triple Entente (Russia, Britain and France)
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5 Germany built its own version , but Britain had a new, bigger kind
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Austria seized Bosnia and Herzegovina
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1908 Austrian invasion of Bosnia
Many people living there were Slavs, who wanted to unite with Serbia. The Austrian invasion was resented by the Slavic peoples everywhere, including Russia. Serbia wanted to unite the Slavic peoples in the region, and resented the invasion of Bosnia -
Children’s Charter Old Age Pensions Act (People over 70 got pensions)
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Trade Board Act (Minimum Wage)
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The liberals had to call a General Election
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The National Insurance Act
The National Insurance Act 1911 is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Act is often regarded as one of the foundations of modern social welfare in the United Kingdom and forms part of the wider social welfare reforms of the Liberal Government of 1906-1914. -
The National Insurance Act (Health Insurance and Unemployment benefit)
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The Agadir Crisis
The Agadir Crisis, also called the Second Moroccan Crisis, or the Panthersprung, was the international tension sparked by the deployment of a substantial force of French troops in the interior of Morocco in April 1911French troops sent to Fez to fight Moroccan rebels. Germany accused France of trying to take control over Morocco, and sent a warship (Panther), hoping to force France to give them the French Congo. Britain objected to the German action because they had a naval base nearby at Gibral -
the Austrian heir officially visited Bosnia
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triggered the First World War
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volunteered for the army in Britain
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Britain 29 Dreadnoughts; Germany, 17
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Britain declared war on Germany THE FIRST WORLD WAR
World War I (WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, was a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918 -
The Government introduced conscription
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Russia pulled out of the War
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2 Food rationing started
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The war finally ended
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Women and the vote
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The war to end all wars
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The Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles (French: Traité de Versailles) was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The other Central Powers on the German side of World War I were dealt with in separate treaties.lthough the armistice, signed on 11 November 1918, ended the actual fighting, it took six months of negotiations at th -
the idea of dictatorship become popular in some European countries
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The main agreements
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- Rapallo Treaty
The Treaty of Rapallo was an agreement signed at the Hotel Imperiale in the Italian town of Santa Margherita Ligure on 16 April, 1922 between Germany and Russia under which each renounced all territorial and financial claims against the other following the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and World War I. -
Corfu incident
Mussolini wanted both apologize and money compensation after the murder of Italian diplomat, invading the Greek island of Corfu. The League argued in favor of compensation. Finally, Mussolini received money and apologizes: the League was weak, very weak -
- Geneva Protocol
The Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, usually called the Geneva Protocol, is a treaty prohibiting the first use of chemical and biological weapons in international armed conflicts. It was signed at Geneva on 17 June 1925 and entered into force on 8 February 1928. It was registered in League of Nations Treaty Series on 7 September 1929.[4] The Geneva Protocol is a protocol to the Hague Conventions o -
- Dawes Plan
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elections
elections of 1924 the Fascists swept to power, beginning to change Italy into a dictatorship, ridding of other political parties and became the Head of State: Il Duce (the leader) -
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The vote didn’t go to all women over 21
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- Kellogg-Briand Pact
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The Wall Street Crash
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday or the Stock Market Crash of 1929, began in late October 1929 and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout.The crash signaled the beginning of the 10-year Great Depression that affected all Western industrialized countries. -
- Young Plan
Reduced reparations by 75% gave Germany 59 years to pay
