Timeline of the Moderns

By audrathomas

  • Mansfield Park

    A book writte by Jane Austen that achieved great rank among British authors.

  • Sinn Fein

    A group of Irish Catholics waged a war against British troops. It divided Ireland into two sections.

  • Britian goes to War against Germany

    patriotic british men choose to fight in the war against Germany. by the end of the world 908,000 men from the British Empire had been killed.

  • Women had the right to vote (ages 30+)

    Pankhursts was the one to make this happen

  • Exposition Internatinale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes

  • T.S Eliot

    He came a British Citizen who wrote many poems. He is known as a superb poet.

  • Women's Voting Age Lowered to 21

  • British King

    In 1936 Edward VIII became king and then 325 days later he gave up his position on the thrione.

  • Winston Churchill Speach

    Churchill gave this speech to the people of Great Britian in order to rally their spirits and hope back up after a great attack from Germany.

  • Iron Curtain Speech

    Winston Churchill gave this speech to around 40,000 people. He said "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent." Many people beleive that this is the start of the Cold War.

  • Communist achieved supreacy

    SUn Yixian and his revolutionary alliance threw out China's last emperor until communists came around.

  • 1984

    George Orwell wrote this book to fortell the future of the governments yet to come. This book terrified people because it could possibly be true.

  • The End of the Cold War

    1947 was said to be the beginning of the Cold War, a year after Winston Churchill gave his "Iron Curtain" Speech. 45 years later this Cold War was over.

  • Best English Novel of 20th Century

    Obscene books were banned in England and United States until 1998.

  • Created by Audra Thomas