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Emmeline Pankhurst
Pankhurst's most important work began with this founding of the WSPU. She defied politicians by disrupting party rallies, marching and smashing store windows, and going on hunger strikes when jailed. In 1918, Parliament voted women age 30 or older the right to vote, and in 1928 voting age was lowered to 21 years old.
+Women were force-fed in prison when they went on hunger strikes.
+Pankhurst died just weeks before women were given full voting rights. -
T.S. Eliot
Eliot blurred his national identification by becoming a British citizen. However, the St. Louis-born, Harvard-educated poet early on "was English in everything but accent and citizenship" according to his college classmates. "He smoked a pipe, liked to be alone, carefully avoided slang, and dressed the studied carelessness of a dandy."
+He is most known for his work “The Waste Land.”
+He won the Order of Merit and the Nobel Prize in Literature. -
Katherine Mansfield
With the publication of this book, Mansfield achieved front rank among British authors. Exclusively a writer of short stories, Mansfield had a style that was unique at the time, emphasizing subtlety and small but telling insights over broad plot developments. Mansfield's death from tuberculosis in 1923 silenced a potentially masterful hand.
+She is best known for the story collections Bliss and The Garden Party.
+In 1908, she began to live in a bohemian way of life. -
Qing Dynasty
China's Qing Dynasty was slow to modernize and underestimated the nationalism sweeping China after the unsuccessful Boxer Rebellion against foreign interference in Chinese affairs. Sun Yixian and his revolutionary alliance threw out China's last emperor, and the country went through a prolonged period of political turmoil until the Communists achieved supremacy in 1949.
+Qing Dynasty was established in 1636.
+Hsian-T’ung was the last emperor of China. -
Trench Warfare
Since recent wars had been small-scale conflicts, a generation of patriotic young British men eagerly enlisted to fight Germany when war broke out; however, trench warfare was a new reality, and by war's end 908,000 men from the British Empire had been killed.
+The space between the two enemy trenches was called “No Man’s Land.”
+Many soldiers that lived in the trenches got Trench Foot. It’s caused by the lengthy exposure to wet, muddy conditions. The foot was usually amputated. -
Sinn Fein
Members of Sinn Fein--a militant group begun in 1905 by Irish Catholics--proclaimed Ireland a republic with themselves as its head. The passage of the Home Rule Bill divided Ireland into two sections. The six Protestant counties of Ulster, designated Northern Ireland, remained part of the United Kingdom.
+Founder Arthur Griffith advocated complete national self-reliance in his patriotic journal.
+Griffith leaned toward a revival of Irish Gaelic. -
Ulysses
Initially judged obscene, early editions subjected to confiscation and book burning, long banned in England and the United States, Ulysses found its exalted stature confirmed in controversy in 1998 when it was chosen the best English-language novel of the 20th century by an editorial board of the Modern Library, a division of Random House publishers.
+Ulysses was banned in 1921 for being ‘obscene’.
+The US Postal Service burned hundreds of illegal copies before the book was legally published. -
George Orwell
George Orwell, the pen name of Eric Blair, carried a lifelong "horror of politics" and concern for human freedom. This was transferred in his writings into two landmark books, Animal Farm and 1984, the former bitterly predicting the downfall of communism and the latter warning of what he saw as a trend toward totalitarian dominance by governments.
+Animal Farm made Orwell famous and financially sound.
+Orwell did not have money for a university education after boarding school. -
Empire State Building
The term Art Deco derives from the name of a Paris exhibit: the Exposition Internatinale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes. This style is marked by geometric shapes and smooth lines suggesting elegance and sophistication. New York City's Empire State Building is a famous example of Art Deco architecture.
+The building once had the nickname “Empty State Building” because it was initially a financial flop.
+The building was in a race to create the world’s tallest building. -
Edward VIII
Edward VIII became the subject of a popular love story of the 20th century. After becoming king in 1936, he announced his intention to marry an American divorcee. When the British government objected to this, Edward abdicated after 325 days as king, the 1st person ever to voluntarily give up the British throne. Edward VIII lived out his days known as the duke of Windsor.
+He had multiple affairs with women in the 1920s.
+In the 1920s, he took extensive foreign tours in the empire. -
Winston Churchill
To combat despair brought on Britons almost daily German air attacks, prime minister Winston Churchill used stirring words to rally the people to stand defiant. He declared that Britain would "wage war, by sea, land, and air, with all our might and with all our strength that God can give us...against monstrous tyranny."
+Churchill was voted out of office before WWII’s end.
+He escaped from prison camp in South Africa and gained fame for his act. -
Iron Curtain
In a speech delivered in the United States, Winston Churchill coined the phrase "iron curtain" as he warned of the threat posed by the Soviet Union, which a year earlier had been an ally in the defeat of Hitler. The United States quickly took the lead in containing communism's post-war expansion.
+The iron curtain was there between the end of WWII until the end of the Cold War.
+A variation of the term, the Bamboo Curtain, was used in reference to the People’s Republic of China.
