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Treaty of London sees Britain guarantee the independence of Belgium

1839

Triple Alliance created between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy

1882

1st Moroccan Crisis - the Kaiser travels to Morocco and declares support for Moroccan independence which angers France

1905

Schlieffen Plan is drawn up the by Germany army

1905

First Dreadnought battleship launched by the Royal Navy

1906

Triple Entente created between Britain, France and Russia

1907

Bosnia is annexed by Austria-Hungary much to the annoyance of the Serbians

1908

Second Moroccan Crisis - When French troops entered Morocco the Kaiser sent a Germany warship to Agadir to support the Moroccans.

1911

The Balkan Wars see Serbia gain territory from the Ottoman Empire

1912-1913

28 June - Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip

28th June 1914

2 July - Austria asks Germany for help

2nd July 1914

5 July - Germany gives Austria a ‘Blank Cheque’ to act against Serbia

5th July 1914

23 July - Austria issues an ultimatum to Serbia, which Serbia accepts

23rd July 1914

28 July - Austria declares war on Serbia

28th July 1914

4 Aug - Germany invades Belgium

4th August 1914

4 Aug - Britain declares war on Germany

4th August 1914

British Expeditionary Force first encounter the German army at the Battle of Mons

1914

French halt the German advance at the Battle of the Marne

1914

‘Race to the Sea’ ends with the British capturing the city of Ypres (1st Battle of Ypres

1914

2nd Battle of Ypres - first use of poison gas

1915

Gallipoli landings fail

1915

Battle of Verdun

1916

UK introduces conscription

1916

Battle of the Somme. British lost 57,000 men either killed or injured on the first day.

1916

Herbert Asquith resigns as Prime Minister, replaced by David Lloyd George

1916

USA declares war on Germany

1917

3rd Battle of Ypres aka the Battle of Passchendaele

1917

Battle of Amiens

1918

11 November - Armistice agreed

1918

Treaty of Versailles signed

1919

Women given the right to vote in local elections

1869

Suffragists (non-violent) founded by Millicent Fawcett

1897

Suffragettes founded by Emmeline Pankhurst with the motto: ‘deeds not words’

1903

‘Black Friday’: Mass arrests as a large crowd of suffragettes try to break into Parliament

1910

Suffragette Mary Leigh throws a hatchet at Prime Minister Herbert Asquith

1912

Suffragettes launch a campaign of property destruction e.g. stone-throwing, arson

1912

Suffragette Emily Davison dies after jumping in front of the king’s horse at the Derby

1913

David Lloyd George’s house in Walton is bombed by the suffragettes

1913

Emmeline Pankhurst pauses the suffragette campaign of violence when WW1 begins

1914

Women do many jobs traditionally performed by men e.g. farming and factory work

1914-1918

Women aged over 30 given the right to vote and stand in parliamentary elections. 

1918

Constance Markievicz is the first woman elected to Parliament

1918

Voting age for women lowered to 21 (equal with men)

1928

Voting age for men and women lowered to 18

1969

Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female UK Prime Minister

1979

Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service

1933

Nuremberg Laws take German citizenship away from German Jews

1935

Kristallnacht

1938

Jews moved into ghettos

1939

Auschwitz concentration camp opens in German-occupied Poland

1940

Einsatzgruppen (firing squads) round up and kill jews during the invasion of Russia

1941

First use of the gas chambers at Auschwitz

1941

Wannsee Conference in Berlin takes the decision to kill all the Jews held in ghettos

1942

Jews in the Warsaw ghetto resist transfer to the death camps

1943

Revolt by prisoners at Sobibor death camp

1943

Gas chambers at Auschwitz operate at their highest capacity. 1 million Jews murdered.

1944

Auschwitz death camp liberated by Russian troops. Death marches begin.

1945

State of Israel established

1948