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More important events in the History

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  • The Second Balcan War

    Bulgaria went to war with Greece and Serbia. Turkey and Romania joined the Greek and Serbian side and Bulgaria was soon defeated losing land to the four victors

  • Matrimonial Clauses Act (divorce)

  • Married Women’s Property Act (keep property)

  • The Married Women’s Property Act gave women the right to keep their property

  • The Married Women’s Act said that a husband who left his wife had to keep paying for her maintenance

  • Alsace-Lorraine is lost by France to Germany

  • Triple Alliance: Italy joined the dual

  • Guardianship of Infants Act (legal guardian)

  • Franco-Russian Alliance against triple alliance

  • Britain is the biggest Empire in the world

  • Entente Cordiale (Britain and France)

  • Conservative Government set up a Royal Commission to look at the Poor Law

  • Liberal Party won a landslide general election victory over the Conservatives

  • Triple Entente (Russia, Britain and France)

  • The Charter made it illegal for children younger than 16 to buy cigarettes, go into a pub or beg

  • David Lloyd George introduced the Old Age Pensions Act

  • Winston Churchill and William Beveridge put together the Trade Board Act

  • The Agadir Crisis

  • The National Insurance

  • Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro formed the Balkan League and attacked the Ottoman Empire

  • He went to Bosnia to help the loyalty of the Bosnian people to Austria-Hungary

  • The Russian offensive failed

  • The Government dealt with the protests harshly (prison, force-fed to hunger strike…)

  • Two million workers were covered by the trade boards and so had the security of a minimum wage

  • Ypres, Mons, and the river Marne were the mayor battles which stopped the German advance

  • There were in september 1914 a half million volunteers for the Britain army

  • Defence of The Realm Act

  • There were another half million men joined by February 1915 to the army of Britain

  • Sir Douglas Haig replaced Sir John French as the British commander

  • The Government introduced conscription

  • The Russian Tsar was forced out of power

  • USA joined the War

  • 24. The Bolshevik leaders of Russia signed a treaty with Germany

  • Food rationing started

  • The war finally ended

  • Treaty of Neully deal with Bulgaria

  • Versailles Treaty

  • Treaty of St. Germain deal with Austria

  • Treaty of Sèvres deal withTurkey

  • Treaty of Trianon deal with Hungary

  • Hungary gave up democracy in the 1920s

  • Germany feel angry about the failure of disarmament

    After the Washington Conference, nobody wanted to reduce arms further –the League had failed in its disarmament plans. Defeated countries were angry they had been forced to disarm

  • Germany was forced to pay 6.6 billion in reparations

  • Washington Conference: USA, Br & Fr reduced size of Navies

  • Rapallo Treaty: Rus & Ger resumed diplomatic relations

  • Geneva Protocol: Tried to make countries use the League to sort out disputes

  • Dawes Plan: USA plan to lend money to Germany and extend payments

  • Fascists swept to power

  • Locarno Treaties: Germany agreed to western borders set at Versailles

  • Germany was finally accepted into the League of Nations

  • The vote didn’t go to all women over 21 until 1928, when women finally got equal voting rights

  • Kellogg-Briand Pact: 65 nations agreed not to use force to settle arguments

  • Young Plan: Reduced reparations by 75% gave Germany 59 years to pay

  • Wall Street become so important