Dates Flashcards

1
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suffragettes formed

A

Feb, 1903

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2
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suffragists formed

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1897

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3
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Millicent Fawcett led a deputation to see the Prime Minister and was promised a women’s Suffrage Bill.

A

Jan 1908

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4
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Millicent Fawcett held a public debate with the leader of the anti-Suffragists and won, gaining more supporters.

A

Feb 1908

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5
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Suffragist Mud March (named this due to the awful weather), involving over 3000 people.

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February 1907

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6
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Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst founded a new organisation called the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU).

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1903

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7
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Suffragettes threw stones at the windows of 10 Downing Street. Suffragettes slashed paintings and smashed statues in art galleries.

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1908

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8
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Emily Davison was killed trying to put a banner on a horse at the Epsom Derby

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1913

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9
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Mrs Pankhurst was sent to jail

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April 1913

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10
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Parliament passed a new law, all women over the age of 30 were given a vote. Married women over the age of 21 and those who owned property were also given the vote.

A

1918

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11
Q

Reichstag fire

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27th February 1933

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12
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Communist Dutchman, Marinus van der Lubbe found guilty and executed

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9th January 1934

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13
Q

Hindenburg passed the ‘Decree for the Protection of the People’ giving the police powers to search homes and imprison people without trial.

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28th Feb 1933

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14
Q

election. Nazis gained 288 seats. Banned communists taking up 81 seats. Gained the support of the Nationalist Party (54 seats) and the Centre Party (74 seats)

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5th March 1933

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15
Q

Enabling Act

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23rd March 1933

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16
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18 state parliaments closed down; reorganised so Nazis had majority

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31st March 1933

17
Q

abolished parliaments altogether.

A

January 1934

18
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Nazis broke into trade union offices and arrested their leaders. Created the DAF and forced workers to join them.

A

2nd May 1933

19
Q

Social Democrats suspended

A

10th May 1933

20
Q

Communist Party suspended

A

end May 1933

21
Q

Hitler banned all political parties except the NP.

A

July 1933

22
Q

The Night of the Long Knives

A

30th June 1934

23
Q

Röhm and around 200 leading SA officers arrested.

A

30th June 1934

24
Q

Rohm shot

A

1st July 1934

25
Q

Hindenburg’s Death

A

2nd August 1934

26
Q

Hitler Youth Law - all eligible young people had to belong to a Nazi youth organisation

A

1936

27
Q

Law for the Encouragement of Marriage gave loans of 1000 marks to women who left work.

A

1933

28
Q

Hitler held a military rally in which he announced the introduction of conscription and revealed that he had built an air force, the Luftwaffe.

A

1935

29
Q

The remilitarisation of the Rhineland: he ordered his troops to march into the Rhineland. They were ordered to withdraw at the first sign of French resistance, but the French did nothing.

A

7th March 1936

30
Q

Anschluss: - He demanded Schuschnigg’s resignation and German troops entered Austria and it was absorbed into Germany.

A

12 March 1938

31
Q

Sudetenland: he changed his mind and said he would invade if he didn’t have all of the Sudetenland by

A

1st October 1938

32
Q

Invasion of Poland

A

1st September 1939

33
Q

Britain declared war on Germany

A

3rd September 1939

34
Q

Neville Chamberlain, who became the British PM

A

1937

35
Q

Britain, France, Italy and Germany met at the Munich Conference

A

29th September 1938

36
Q

The Nazi-Soviet Pact
This was signed between Germany and the Soviet Union

A

23rd August 1939

37
Q

Britain responded by signing the Anglo-Polish Mutual Assistance Pact
promising to defend Poland if Germany attacked.

A

25th August 1939