XX-XXI centuries

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  • The Labour Party was formally established

  • Period: to

    The First World War

  • Germany offered to make peace

  • The "Easter Rising" begun

  • Period: to

    the battle of Jutland

    Admiral Jellicoe successfully drove the
    Ge rman fleet back into harbour

  • Britain attacked German positions on the River Somme

  • The arrival of American troops in France

  • the Bolshevik revolution begun in Russia

  • women over the age of thirty gained the right to vote

  • Versailles peace treaty

  • League of Nations was established

  • Anglo-Irish treaty

  • the first Labour governmen t was created

  • the Liberal Party almost comp letely disappeared

  • Generak srtike

    The reasons for the strike were
    complicated, but the immediate cause was a
    coalminers' strike
  • Period: to

    The depression

  • a new party Fianna Fail was formed

  • George V used the new BBC radio service to speak to all peoples of the Commo nwealth and the empire

  • Italy ivaded Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

  • Edward Vlll gave up the throne

    in order to marry a divorced woman

  • the new Prime Minister, Eamon de Valeta declared southern Ireland a republic

  • Germany invaded Poland, and Britain entered the war

  • Period: to

    The Second World wAR

  • Germany attacked the Soviet Union; Japan attacked the USA

  • A Labour government brought in a new National Health Service

  • The National Assistance Act provided financial help

  • Britain joined with other countries to form the Council of Europe

  • Elizabeth II became queen

  • Britain attacked Egypt

  • Building of the first nuclear energy power station

  • Ulster people, both Catholics and Protestants, began to gather on the streets and demand a fairer system

  • the Northern Irelad government was removed and was replaced with direct rule from London

  • Britain became a membe of the European Community

  • the Welsh turned down the government's offer of limited self-government.

  • Margaret Thatcher was elected ( + 1983, 1987)

  • Period: to

    Falklands War

    The war between Argentina and Great Britain for Falklands

  • the miners went on strike

  • Britain and Ireland made a formal agreement at Hillsborough

    that they would exchange views on Northern Ireland regularly

  • Thatcher resigned as party leader and prime minister

  • Tony Blair became prime minister

  • Britain joined a US-led military invasion of Iraq

  • terrorist attack in London

    A group of Islamist suicide bombers simultaneously detonated four explosive devices in London public transport.

  • Gordon Brown became prime minister

  • Global financial crisis

  • David Cameron became prime minister

  • The UK ended combat operations in Afganistan

  • The UK voted to leave the European Nation in a national referendum

  • Theresa May became prime minister

  • Boris Johnson became prime minister

  • Brexit

  • Death of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh