History Week 2, Lesson 1

1. 20th Century History
Week 2: Lesson 1
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2. Life before WWI
Increase/awareness of Sanitation
Toilet/Waste disposal
Clean water
Provision of Gas to light and heat homes
Created a new industry, with Capitalists heading out to
profit from this/employing people to go out and supply such
services
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3. - Changes in Agriculture & Farming
- Obsession on Efficiency and productivity
- Time = Money mentality
- A new level of Capitalism, resulting in a new
level of Education need to keep up with working
demand.
- Education also used to teach against divorce, abortion
homosexuality & contraception.
- The entertainment business (pubs, organised sports etc.)
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4. Everybody else is doing it, so we'd better do it too.
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5. Day to day......
Some Cars, but mostly Horse-drawn and bicycles
30% of children went to primary school
10% to secondary school
Women’s rights (suffrage) was beginning to
gain momentum
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6. - 1876 ten percent of Africa was under European rule
- By 1900, ninety percent was colonised. Britain, France,
Belgium divided the continent between them, with Germany and
Italy having carved out small slices.
- Japan took over Korea and Taiwan
- France had conquered all of Indochina
- United States took Puerto Rico and the Phillipines from Spain
- Britain and Russia agreed to an informal partition of Iran
The only states outside of Europe and the United States, that were
really independent were: the remains of the Ottoman Empire,
Thailand, Ethiopia, and Afghanistan.
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