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Men achieved the right to vote thanks to the successive liberal revolutions of 1820, although women were not granted those rights. -
The writer and activist Concepción Arenal believed that women should not be restricted to the traditional roles of wife and mother. -
Novelist Emilia Pardo Bazán criticized the political advances of liberal men because they had actually increased inequality between men and women. -
She is considered the most important British feminist of her time. She was an activist and leader of the suffrage movement.
He spent years touring, giving speeches and participating in marches. -
This era was known as the league of the three emperors.
This was an alliance between the Austro-Hungarian, German and Russian empires. -
Italy later joined the agreement, forming the Triple Alliance. Bismarck also revived the League of the Three Emperors. -
The German chancellor reinforced the Triple Alliance and signed the Reinsurance Treaty with the Russian tsar.
Bismarck also signed the Mediterranean Agreements with Great Britain, Italy, Austria and Spain. -
After Bismarck's resignation in 1890, two opposing diplomatic blocs were formed in Europe: the Triple Alliance (Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy) and the Triple Entente (Russia, France, and Great Britain).This marked the end of British neutrality in Europe. -
France and Germany came to the brink of war over control of Morocco, a territory that Germany coveted for its strategic value and for the raw materials it could provide to German industry. -
Two Balkan wars occurred.
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.