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Knowledge Base: History How did struggles over identity cause Year 9 lasting global changes? c.1500 CE to 1843 CE
1. Timeline of the modern world
1.1 The industrial revolution started in Britain and spread across Europe and then the world.
c. 1750 to c. 1850 CE
1.2 Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol. Dickens was one of many ‘social reformers’.
1843
1.3 Karl Marx wrote Das Kapital and the Communist Manifesto, two books arguing for socialism.
1840s CE
1.4 A wave of revolutions and rebellions swept across Europe, including Ireland.
1848-49
1.5 Suffragists and Suffragettes campaigned for women to have voting rights equal to men.
1897 to 1928 CE
1.6 Start of the First World War (WWI). The conflict involved many peoples from all over the world.
1914 CE
1.7 Easter Rising in Dublin. During WWI, Irish nationalists rebelled against British rule in Ireland.
1916 CE
1.8 Russian Revolution. In February the autocracy was replaced by democracy.
1917 CE
1.9 Russian Revolution. In October the democracy was replaced by socialists aiming for communism.
1917 CE
1.10 End of fighting in WWI. The ceasefire (armistice) started at 11:00am on 11th November.
1918 CE
1.11 In WWI Britain’s armed forces included Africans and Asians. Women fought for Russia on the front lines.
1914-18 CE
1.12 UK Women aged 30 and over who paid taxes on property were granted the right to vote equal to men.
1918 CE
1.13 The Treaty of Versailles was signed, ending WWI. Germany was stripped of land and made to pay the winners for the damage done.
1919 CE
1.14 Stalin became leader of the USSR and tried to create a workers’ paradise. He changed farming with Collectivisation, but millions died.
1928 CE
1.15 All UK women were granted the right to vote equal to men. Campaigners like Fawcett and Pankhurst had succeeded.
1928 CE
1.16 Adolf Hitler of the Nazi Party became dictator of Germany. USSR and Italy were also led by dictators.
1933-34 CE
1.17 The Second World War (WW2) was fought across the world, arguably starting with Japan’s invasion of China in 1937.
c. 1937 to 1945 CE
1.18 China’s civil war raged throughout the 1930s and 1940s. Nationalists and Communists fought for control.
c. 1929 to 1949 CE
1.19 Colonies of the British, French, Spanish and other European empires fought for their independence.
c. 1950s and 1960s CE
1.20 Homosexual acts were decriminalised in the UK. This was part of a series of reforms during a movement for social reform.
1967 CE
2. Revolutions and civil wars from 1848
2.1 Austria and Russia
2.2 France
2.5 American Civil War
2.6 Meiji Restoration
2.7 Chinese Civil War
In the Austrian and Russian Empires, revolutions in 1848 were caused mainly by nationalism. Groups within these empires wante d independence. The revolution of 1848 in France was a movement of workers who were unhappy with the monarchy. They wanted the right to vote.
Many states separated from the USA, calling themselves the Confederate States of America. After a civil war, they were forced to re-join the USA.
A group of Samurai (traditional warrior class) rose up against Japan’s military government and replaced it with an emperor who shared their values. Nationalist forces fought against Communist forces before, during, and after WW2. The Communist Party of China had control by 1947, led by Mao Zedong.
2.3
German states
The revolution of 1848 in Germany was a movement across the 39 German states of workers and the middle classes rising up agai nst the monarchies. Workers fought for better pay and conditions. Middle classes fought for democracy.
2.4
Italian states
Revolutions of 1848 in the Italian states were caused mainly by nationalism. Italians in the north wanted to be free from Aus trian rule, and across Italy people fought to become one unified country.
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