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writer and activist
Writer and activist Concepción Arenal (1820-1893) believed that women should not be restricted to the traditional roles of wife and mother. -
SUFFRAGISM IN SPAIN
Novelist Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851-1921) criticised the political advances made by liberal men because they had actually increased inequality between men and women. -
EMMELINE PANKHURST
When she was arrested, she often fought with police and went on hunger strikes. She spent years touring, giving speeches and participating in marches. She suspended her activities during the First World War to support the war effort, and after women got the right to vote in Great Britain, she was active in politics and ran for Parliament. -
bismacrian first system
Successful as the League of 3 Emperors, it was a union between the Austro-Hungarian, German and Russian Empires. -
BISMARCKIAN second system
Bismarck concluded a bilateral pact with Austria (Two Alliance). Italy later joined the consensus and formed the Triple Union. Bismarck also revived the Dreikaiserbund -
BISMARCKIAN third system
(1887). The German chancellor strengthened the triple union and signed the reinsurance treaty with the Russian tsar. This treaty guaranteed Russian neutrality in the event of an attack by France. Bismarck also signed the Mediterranean Agreements with Britain, Italy, Austria and Spain. -
Armed pace start
After Bismarck's resignation in 1890, two opposing diplomatic blocs formed on the European continent: the Triple Union (Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy) and the Triple Entente (Russia, France and Great Britain). -
Tension arises
Between 1905 and 1911, France and Germany were on the brink of war over control of Morocco, a territory that Germany wanted for its strategic value and because of the raw materials it could provide for German industry. -
Tension arises two Balkan Wars
In the first, an alliance of Balkan countries– Serbia, Bulgaria, Montenegro and Greece–declared war on the Turks, leading to the withdrawal of the Ottoman Empire from Europe. Serbia, which had the support of the Russians, benefited from this war. -
Armed pace finish
The Entente marks the end of the neutrality of the United Kingdom on the European continent. Britain feared that the German navy had developed into a fighting fleet that could threaten the supremacy of the Royal Navy. In the Triple Union, each member promised each other mutual support in the event of an attack by another great power or, in the German-Italian situation, an attack by France alone.