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178 matches to Trades Union Congress
Trades Union Congress. TUC. 1868. Organization of British unions sponsoring Labour Party. ICFTU.
Apprentices Statute. 1563-1814 England. 7 Years apprenticeship required for all trades.
Cabochiens. 1411-18. Paris tradesmen. Supported Burgundians vs Armagnacs.
Stockholm, Treaty. 1719. Sweden trades land for British aid, sells land to Prussia.
Vienna, Congress. 1814-15. Redrew map of Europe after Napoleon. Prussia gains Rhine, Westphalia. Swiss borders and neutrality confirmed. Netherlands created from Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg. Malta and Cape Colony ceded to Britain. Russia gets Poland. Austria trades Netherlands for north Italy. France reduced to 1792 borders. Metternich.
AFL-CIO. American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations. AFL 1886. CIO 1935. Merged, 1955. US labour union federation.
American Civil Liberties Union. ACLU. 1920-. US legal action group supporting civil rights.
American Civil War. 1861-5. Abolitionist North defeats slave-owning South. Britain and France support South, Russia supports North. Union. Confederacy.
Anne. 1665-1714. British Queen 1702-. Reign notable for literarature, science, architecture. Last Stuart. Acts of Union, Settlement.
Anne of Bretagne. 1477-1514. Wife of Charles VIII, 1491, then of Louis XII, 1499. Began union of Brittany with France.
Anti-Socialist Law. 1878-90. Germans ban unions.
Arcadian League. 370-362BC. Union of states vs Sparta.
Benelux. 1948-93. Economic union of Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg. EU.
Beria, Laurenty. 1899-1953. Soviet commisar in charge of Stalin’s security police 1938-.
Berlin Wall. 1961-89. Soviet troops erect. US guarantees West Berlin’s freedom.
Borden, Robert. 1854-1937. Canadian Cons Prime Minister 1911-20. Union Gov’t. Imperial War Cabinet. Women suffrage.
Brezhnev, Leonid. 1906-82. Soviet First Secretary 1964-. Detente. Brezhnev Doctrine.
Brezhnev Doctrine. 1968. Justified Czech invasion by Soviet right to defend Socialism worldwide.
Briand, Aristide. 1862-1932. French Prime Minister 1909~29, orator. “Separation of Church and State”, 1905. Advocated union of Europe. Kellogg-Briand.
Brussels, Treaty. 1948. = Western Union. 50 year alliance of Britain, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands. 1954 + W Germany, Italy.
Bulganin, Nikolai. 1895-1975. Soviet Prime Minister 1955-8 with Khrushchev.
CGT. 1895. Confédération Générale du Travail. Largest French union organization.
Christian II. King of Denmark and Norway, 1513-23; Sweden, 1520-3. End of Kalmar Union. Stockholm bloodbath.
Combination Acts. 1799, 1800. Britain outlaws trade unions. Repealed 1824.
Crédit Mobilier of America. 1865-72. Scandal involving illegal profits, graft in Union Pacific Railroad construction.