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Between the Wars - Ellen Seed

By ellenseed

  • Women Getting the Vote

    Australia, the land of blokes and sheilas, was surprisingly progressive, and shortly after Federation the government passed an act to allow women to both vote and stand in the 1903 federal election. In fact, Australia was the first country to allow women to run for parliament. But the situation was not so rosy for Indigenous women, who were not given the vote until much later, in 1962.

  • Suffragette

    Emmeline Pankhurst was the main player, founding the Women's Social and Political Union in the UK to push for the right to vote. These women were tough, and under the slogan "Deeds not words" they employed some pretty militant tactics, like chaining themselves to railings, setting fire to mailboxes, smashing windows and even detonating bombs.

  • Start of WW1

  • End of WW1

  • Hitler makes speech to fascist part

  • Jazz Developed by Musicians in New Orleans

  • 1st Congress

    CHINA

  • Amelia Earhart takes her first flying lessons

  • Communist Party

    CHINA

  • The Soviet Union

    RUSSIA

  • Founding of the Country Women's Association (CWA)

    Australia

  • Nationalist Party

    CHINA

  • Hitler Jailed after Failed Coup

  • Stain in Power

    USSR

  • First Winter Olympics held in France

  • United

    CHINA

  • Mystery writer Agatha Christie goes missing

  • Five Year Plans

    USSR

  • Penicillin discovered

  • BubbleGum invented

  • Sliced Bread invented

  • Invaded

    CHINA

  • St Valentines day Massacre

  • Stock market crashes

  • The great depression begins

  • Car radio invented

  • Byrd and Bennet Fly over south pole

  • Pluto discovered

  • Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

  • The Womens Weekly

    That bible for Australian women - the Australian Women's Weekly - was founded by Frank Packer.

  • The Great Depression Ends

  • Start of WW2

  • League of Nations

  • Cold War begins

  • Womens Jobs in WW1

    With so many men gone to war, Australian women were finally able to enter the workforce in men's roles in unprecedented numbers.
    The Australian Women's Land Army was founded to recruit women to work on farms where there were no men left. The Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS) recruited thousands of women for military duties such as manning radios and anti-aircraft machinery, as drivers and in other clerical roles.

  • End of WW2