Western Civilization II / Unit 15 WC2 1429 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Suffrage Won Across the 1920s
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The idea
Most European countries and the United States gave women the vote through the twenties, often with restrictions: Britain's property-owning women over thirty in nineteen eighteen, Germany the same year, the United States in nineteen twenty. France waited until nineteen forty-four.
In practice
Won by war service, the link the anchor draws.
Where people slip
Britain's age limit fell to twenty-one in twenty-eight.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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