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Concepción Arenal
She was a writer and activist who believed that women should not be restricted to the traditional roles of wife and mother. -
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Liberal revolutions
At the end of the 19th century, there continued to be great inequality between men and women. Although men had achieved the right to vote thanks to the successive liberal revolutions of 1820, 1830 and 1848, women had not. -
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Novelist Emilia Pardo Bazán
She was a sufragist who criticised the political advances made by liberal men because they had actually increased inequality between men and women. -
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Emmeline Pankhurst
She was an activist and leader of the suffragette movement, but was criticised by her contemporaries for the very aggressive methods as smashing windows. And that's why she got considered the most important British feminist of her time. -
First Bismarckian System
It was also named the League of the three Emperors, and this meant an alliance between Austro-Hungarian, German and Russian empires. -
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The second Bismarckian system
Bismarck made a bilateral agreement with Austria and Italy later joined the agreement, forming the Triple Alliance. Bismarck also revived the League of the Three Emperors. -
The third Bismarckian system
The German chancellor reinforced the Triple Alliance and signed the Reinsurance Treaty with the Russian tsar. The treaty guaranteed Russian neutrality in the event of an attack by France. Bismarck also signed the Mediterranean Agreements with Great Britain, Italy, Austria and Spain. -
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Armed Peace
The Triple Alliance (Germany, Austro-Hungary and Italy) and the Triple Entente (Russia, France and Great Britain). Britain was worried because Germany’s navy had expanded into a battle fleet that could threaten the supremacy of the Royal Navy. In the Triple Alliance, each member promised mutual support in the event of an attack by any other great power, or, in the case of Germany and Italy, an attack by France alone. -
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War over control of Morocco
France and Germany were on the brink of war over control of Morocco, a territory that Germany wanted for its strategic value and because of the raw materials it could provide for German industry. -
Balkan Wars
In the first, an alliance of Balkan countries– Serbia, Bulgaria, Montenegro and Greece–declared war on the Turks, leading to the withdrawal of the Ottoman Empire from Europe. In the second, the former allies fought each other.