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AGE OF ANXIETY, BROOKE, OWEN, GEORGE V - Coggle Diagram
AGE OF ANXIETY
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- Paved the way for the ENTENTE CORDIALE (UK - FRA, 1904) on colonial territories
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Social and political change. 1903 -> WSPU led by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughter Christabel. 1906 -> Labour Party is founded.
Welfare state -> pensions, sickness and unemployment benefits.
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The People’s budget -> More taxes on the wealthy. The house of Lords reject the proposal -> constitutional crisis + reform of the House of Lords
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The women social and political union. Founded in 1903 in Manchester. Voting rights for women, strikes, unrest, arson. 1913 Cat and Mouse Act. Emmeline Pankhurst was arrested 12 times within a year. Campaign is called off with the onset of WWI and the suffragettes are released.
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BROOKE
- Young, wealthy, good-looking, athletic
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OWEN
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- While teaching English in France, he visited a military hospital and decided to enlist
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- 1917 - hospital in Scotland, met Sassoon, started writing
- Back to the battlefield, he died on Nov 4th 1918
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GEORGE V
1911, Parliamentary Act -> the House of Lords can no longer veto financial bills passed in the Commons (can only delay them for up to 2 years); elections are to be held every 5 years.
Falling of prices and doubling of the wages of the lower class. Widespread industrialisation and new technical innovations. Growth of population in urban spaces. Extension of transport networks.
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