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308 matches to Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Women’s Christian Temperance Union. 1874. US movement vs alcoholic drink.
Yemen. ~10CBC Minaean, Saba’, Qataban, Himyarite Kingdoms. 1C Jews settle. 4C Christians settle. 525 Abyssinia. 575 Persia. 7C Moslem. 9C ’Alid Zaydi dynasty. 1173 Ayyubid. c1229 Rasulid. 1517 Ottoman. 1962 Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen). 1990 Merged with c100BC Himyarite. 1229 Rasulis. 1635 Zaydi. 1735 Divided South: 1802 British protection. 1839 British East India Company. 1937 Aden British Protectorate. 1963 Federation of South Arabia. 1967 People’s Republic of Yemen. 1735 North: 1872 Ottoman. 1920 Tribal. 1962 Yemen Arab Republic 1990 merged=Yemen.
Anti-Saloon League. 1893 US Temperance organization. Prohibition.
Bloomer, Amelia. 1818-94. US temperance, women’s rights activist. Wore bloomers.
Nation, Carry. 1846-1911. US temperance crusader 1890-. Smashed saloons with hatchet.
Prohibition. 1920-33. US 18th Amendment. Alcoholic drinks illegal. Repealed by 21st. Temperance Movement.
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.
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.