history

• before 1832


  11% men
• 1832


  18% men
• 1867: the second reform act


  32% men
• 1867: the second reform act


  32% men
• 1884: the third reform act


  63% men
• 1897


  suffragists established
• 1903


  suffragettes established
• 1913

  cat and mouse act
• 1914-18


  ww1
• 1918


  representation of the people act all men over 21 and property owning 30+ women
• 1928: representation of the people act 


  everyone over 21
• franchise


  right to vote
• suffrage 


  right to vote
• democracy


  a country where people vote for their goverment
• political representation


  when voters have a say in who represents them in goverment
• suffragist


  a member of the suffragists that campaigned for the vote for women to be extended led by millicent fawcett
• suffragette


  a member of the suffragettes that campaigned for women's vote to be extended led by Emmeline Pankhurst
• millitant


  a group or person who favours confrontational or violent methods
• martyr


  a person who dies because of their beliefs
• hunger strike


  when someone refuses to eat as an act of protest
• who was emily davidson 


  a suffragette who campaigned for votes for women she died on 8th June 1913 after running infront of the kings horse at epsom derby she is remembered as a martyr
• militarism


  building up your armed forces and weapons in preparation for war
• alliances


  making agreements and promises with other countries particulary to support one another in times of war
• imperialism


  building up an empire
• nationalism


  being proud(patriotic)of your country and being prepared to do anything to defend it
• assasination


  the deliberate murder of someone for political or ideological reasons
• trench warfare


  a type of combat in which opposing troops fight from trenches facing eachother
• stalemate


  when neither side is able to make progess
• schlieffen plan

  the german plan at the start of ww1 which they hoped would allow them to defeat france and russia quickly
• censorship


  when information is blocked or edited. This is commonly done by governments in times of war.
• propoganda


  information especially of a biased or misleading nature , used to promote a political cause of point of view
• conscripted


  being made to join the armed forces
• armistice


  peace agreement
• archduke franz ferdinand


  the heir to the austro-hungarian throne
• black hand


  a serbian nationalist group that wanted serbia to be independant of the austro-hungarian rule
• gavrilo princip


  a member of the black who assassinated the archduke franz ferdinad
• kaiser wilhelm the second 


  the king of germany from 1888-1918
• von schlieffen 


  a high ranking german genral who was in charge of planning the german attack against France and Russia at the start of ww1
• lord kitchener 


  secretary of state for war at the start of the ww1. responsible for building the british army
• general douglas haig


  commander of the british army during the battle of the somme