History Dates Outline (03.04.

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Key : GERMANY, COLD WAR, BRITAIN

1834
Poor Law

1897
Suffragists are set up
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1902
Boer War Ends

1903
Suffragettes are set up

1904

1905
Christabel Pankhurst sent to prison for assaulting a Liberal Policeman

1906
The Liberal Party wins the Election
New Liberalism
Free School Meals Act
Suffragists support candidates who want female votes
Suffragettes publically oppose MPs at by-elections
Suffragettes protest in the House of Commons and are arrested and sent to prison

1907
School Medical Inspections Act
Mud March takes place in London - Suffragists
First Aid Nursing Yeomanry is set up

1908
Children’s Act (Children’s Charter)
Pensions Act Passed
Suffragettes smash windows in Downing Street, Suffragists criticize their actions

1909
Pensions Act Comes into place
Labour Exchanges Act
People’s Budget
Suffragettes demand to be treated as Political Prisoners. Are force fed.
Voluntary Aid Detachments is set up

1910
Conciliation Bill falls through, Black Friday

1911
National Insurance Act Part One

1912
School Clinics, ensuring treatment is followed after diagnosis from the medical inspections
National Insurance Act Part Two
Christabel Pankhurst flees to Paris after Suffragette HQ is raided
Mass hunger strikes by Suffragettes

1913
Cat and Mouse Act Passed
June - Emily Davison throws herself under the King’s Horse on Derby Day
DORA is set up

1914
Free School Meals are made compulsory, 14 million free school meals being served
DORA comes into action

1915
Munitions Crisis
Derby Scheme
Women’s Land Army is set up
Munitionettes is set up
Women’s Police Force is set up

1916
New Voting Law is introduced to troops can vote
Lloyd George becomes Prime Minister
Germany bombs British import ships containing supplies such as food
Conscription is introduced
Women’s Royal Navy is set up
July/November - Battle of the Somme

1917
Women’s Auxiliary Army is set up
1918
November - Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates, Weimar Republic Set Up
Naval Revolution in Germany
Women’s Royal Air Force is set up
Representation of the Peoples Act
Rationing become compulsory
Women over the age of 30 and are property owners can vote
DORA ends
Fighting stops

1919
Treaty of Versailles signed
Fear of communists begins
Rohm joins the Nazi Party
January - The Spartacist Revolt

1920
German culture began to develop
Farmers begin to suffer from prices, gradually gets worse
Hess joins the Nazi Party
March - The Kapp Putsch

1921
SA is set up

1922
Goebbels and Goering join the Nazi party

1923
Himmler joins the Nazi party.
Beginning of Hyperinflation
January - The Invasion of the Ruhr
November - The Munich Putsch

1924
Start of the of Germany’s ‘Golden Age’
Dawes Plan
Peak of hyperinflation

1925
The Locarno Pact
1926
Germany joins the league of Nations

1927

1928
The Kellogg-Briand Pact

1929
End of Germany’s ‘Golden Age’
The Young Plan
Stresemann dies just days before the WSC
Wall Street Crash
Homelessness dramatically increases

1930

1931

1932
Nazi Party has 230 seats (largest party in Reichstag)

1933
Mass of unemployment from WSC, Hitler sets up economic policies
Sterilisation Law (against disabled/ill)
January - Hitler is made chancellor by Hindenburg
February - Reichstag Fire
March - Enabling Act Passed, law against the formation of parties is passed

1934
June - Night of the Long Knives
August - Hindenburg dies, Hitler becomes Fuhrer

1935
September - Nuremberg Laws Passed (Included the Reich Citizenship Law)

1936
Becomes compulsory to join the Hitler Youth
1937
End of 4 year plans

1937

1938
November - Kristallnacht

1939
Rationing in Germany is introduced
Increase in marriages

1940
Vietnam is controlled by France, known as ‘Indo China’

1941
Japan takes control of Vietnam, USA fighting against Japan owning it
War for Germany is going well until now
June - Hitler orders Germany to invade the USSR

1942
January - Wannsee Conference passing the Final Solution

1943
White Rose group leaders were captured and killed
Beginning of Total War

1944
Allies are pushing the Germans back in the west + east
July - July Bomb Plot

1945
German Government plans are in chaos
Japan surrenders, Franco-Vietminh war starts
America declares they nuclear bombs
February - The Yalta Conference
April - Dietrich Bonhoeffer is put on trial and sent to a concentration camp where he dies
May - Hitler, Goebbels and other Nazi leaders commit suicide.
May - German Surrender
July/August - Potsdam Conference

1946
Greek Civil War begins

1947
Poland becomes Communist
Britain can no longer help in the Greek Civil War, America joins in
End of the Greek Civil War
Marshall Plan set up after Truman Doctrine

1948
The Berlin Blockade/Airlift Starts
Korea is divided

1949
The Berlin Blockade/Airlift Ends
Kennedy criticized Truman for ‘losing China’
NATO is set up
Communist party takes over China

1950
Communist North Korea tries to reunite Korea with military action - sparks war.

1951

1952
Eisenhower becomes president

1953
Stalin dies
Khrushchev becomes head of state

1954
Franco-Vietminh war ends
Warsaw Pact is set up
SEATO is sent up

1955
CENTO is set up

1956

1957
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1959
Khrushchev produces a foreign policy to improve relations
Cuba becomes Communist

1960
Kennedy becomes president
Khrushchev goes out and visits Kennedy to improve relations

1961
Berlin Wall Goes Up
April - The Bay of Pigs

1962
October - Cuban Missile Crisis

1963
Hotline is set up between America and Russia
Test Ban Treaty is signed
Johnson becomes president
November - Kennedy is assassinated

1964
Khrushchev is forced to resign
March - Operation Rolling Thunder begins
August - Tonkin Gulf Resolution

1965
First US ground troops arrive in Vietnam (35000)
The US introduced conscription
Students of Vietnam Day Committee - organised a 36 hour ‘teach-in’ against the war

1966
Burned draft cards

1967
Christian groups and students marched into Washington against the Vietnam War

1968
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is signed
Over half a million soldiers in Vietnam
Soldiers no longer believed in what they were fighting for
Democratic President candidate campaigned with an ‘anti-war’ objective
January - Tet Offensive
March - My Lai Massacre
March - Johnson announces he will seek peace in Vietnam

1969
Nixon becomes President
Nixon begins the process of Vietnamisation and peace talks with Russia
August - Anti-War festival, known as ‘Woodstock’ took place

1970
Nixon invades Cambodia
May - Kent State University protested against the Vietnam War, the army shot and killed 4
students.

1971
Nixon bombs Laos
April/May - The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held investigations about the actions in
Vietnam

1972
Operation Rolling Thunder Ends
March - Easter Offensive
July - Peace talks begin

1973
Paris Peace Accords are signed, all US ground troops are removed from Vietnam