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The Suffragettes wanted the right for women to vote. The move for women to have the vote had really started in 1897 when Millicent Fawcett founded the National Union of Women's Suffrage. "Suffrage" means the right to vote and that is what women wanted
Following the German invasion of Belgium, Great Britain declared war on Germany on August 4th 1914. It was a decision that is seen as the start of World War One.
The Battle of the Somme started in July 1st 1916. It lasted until November 1916. For many people, the Battle of the Somme was the battle that symbolised the horrors of warfare in World War One.
November 11th 1918 saw the end of the First World War and the start of the changing face of Europe.
The League of Nations came into being after the end of World War One. The League of Nation's task was simple - to ensure that war never broke out again. After the turmoil caused by the Versailles Treaty, many looked to the League to bring stability to the world.
Women in Britain get the right to vote in elections for the very first time.
With Hitler's invasion of Poland, Britain and France declared war on Germany, 1st September 1939.
On December 7, 1941 the Japanese armed forces launched massive attack on the USA naval base at Pearl Harbor. America was now to enter the Second World War.
After invading Russia, Hitler's armies were surrounded at Staligrad and Germany suffered her first major defeat. The tide was turning for Nazi Germany.
The first atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in Japan by the United State of America. The Second World War was at an end.
Having suffered so greatly during the Second World War the Jewish people were given their own nation in Israel.
The EEC was established in March 1957 to improve trade andf relations across Europe. Britain did not join.
Malcolm X was a militant leader of the Nation of Islam, a Black Muslim organization, in the 1950s and early 1960s. He was assassinated on 25th Febuary 1965.
Following a long campaign by black activists, segregation on buses was banned. Black no longer had to sit in special places. The civil Rights Movement was growing in strength.
Martin Luther King was an American clergymen, Nobel Peace Prize winner and one of the principal leaders of the American civil rights movements. He was assassinated on 4 April 1968 during a visit to Memphis, Tennessee.
Having spent 27 years in prison, Nelson Mandela was released from prison. He was to become South Africa's first black Prime Minister.
After decades of conflict in Northern Ireland peace came to the province with the signing of the Good Friday Agreement.
The people of Scotalnd and Wales get more say in the running of their countries with the opening of the Scottish and Welsh Assemblies.
On the morning of the 9th September 2001 terrorists crashed hijacked aircraft into the Twin Towers in New York and The Pentagon in Washington. Over 3 000 people died and the world no longer felt safe.
On 3rd September Chechen terrorist occupied Beslan School in Russia. Over a 1000 children and adults were held hostage. The seige was to end in the deaths of 331 people, of which there were 186 children.