NETHERLANDS

EMERGENCE OF SOCIALIST PARTY

• SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC LEAGUE
*19TH CENTURY
1901- 2 TO 6 SEATS
1913- 7 TO 15
*LIBERAL UNION TRIED TO FORM A COALITION
GOVERNMENT WITH THR SOCIAL DEMOCRATS
BUT THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATS REFUSED TO
COOPERATE.
 WORLD WAR 1
• August 1914- World War 1
• Neutral Country
• 1 Million Refugees
• The country being surrounded by states at war.

• Aardappeloproer (potato- rebellion) in Amsterdam in

1917.
• Social Demicratusche Arbeiders party ( SDAP) and
Social Democratic Labour Party called for a socialist
revolution among the worked, but his plan was met
with little enthusiasm.
 INTERWAR
• 3 LARGE IDEOLOGIES (PROTESTANTISM,
ROMAN CATHOLICISM and SOCIALISM)
• DUTCH PARLIAMENT WERE ELECTED BY THE
PEOPLE.WITH HIGH INCOME.
• 1918 – ALL MEN ARE ABLE TO VOTE
• 1922- WOMEN COULD VOTE AS WELL.
• GREAT DEPRESSION OF 1920
I. World War 2
• A. Nazi Germany launched an attack on the
Netherlands and Belgium
• B. Japanese forces invaded Dutch territory
on January 11, 1942

II. Post - War Years

• A. Allied forces liberated parts of the Dutch
East Indies in mid-1945
 PROSPERITY
• In 1950's and 1960's the Dutch economy
experienced a near unprecedented growth.
• In late 1960's and 1970's were the period of
Dutch disease, which means the easy gains from
natural gas exports.
• In 1960's and 1970's there were great social and
cultural changes.
• In 1952, was among the founders of European
Coal and Steel Community.
• From 1918 to 1967 the Dutch politics were
dominated by the Christian Democrat parties.
 21ST CENTURY
• In 2002, the Dutch government has mostly
been led by Christian-democrats and liberals
interchangeably.
• In 2017, the government consist of the
people's party for freedom and democracy.
• 1980 • 2002-October
• 1993 • 2003-May
• 1994 • 2004-March
• 1995 • 2004-November
• 1998 • 2005-June
• 2000 Afghanistan Mission
• 2001-April • 2006-February
• 2002-April • 2006-June & July
• 2002-May • 2007- February
• 2002-July • 2009- January
2009 May - Seven people are killed at a parade in a failed attack on the royal
family.

2009 June - The right-wing Freedom Party, led by Geert Wilders, comes
second in European elections in the Netherlands, winning 15% of the vote.

2010 February - The coalition government collapses following dispute over

troops in Afghanistan.

2010 June - The centre-right Liberal Party emerges as largest party in

parliamentary election.

2010 August - The Netherlands withdraws its 1,900 soldiers from

Afghanistan, ending a four-year mission that had grown increasingly
unpopular at home.

2010 October - After months of coalition talks, Liberal Party and Christian
Democratic Appeal agree to form minority government with parliamentary
support from Geert Wilders' right-wing Freedom Party.
The Netherlands Antilles is dissolved and Aruba, Curacao, St
Maarten become nations within the Kingdom of the
Netherlands. Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba, became
autonomous special municipalities of the Netherlands.

2011 June - Populist politician Geert Wilders is acquitted of

charges that comments comparing Islam to Nazism
constitute hate speech.

2011 July - A court rules the Dutch state responsible for the
deaths of three Bosnian Muslims in the 1995 Srebrenica
massacre.

2012 April - Prime Minister Mark Rutte resigns after the

right-wing Freedom Party refuses to support an austerity
budget.
• A court upholds a draft law banning foreign tourists from entering cafes that sell
cannabis in the three southernmost provinces.

• 2012 September - Prime Minister Mark Rutte's ruling Liberals win election with 41
seats in parliament, two more than centre-left Labour. The Eurosceptic and anti-
immigrant Freedom Party sustains heavy losses.

AUSTERITY
• 2012 November - Liberals and Labour form a coalition headed by Mark Rutte. The
new government warns that tough austerity measures will be needed.

• 2013 April - Willem-Alexander becomes king.

• 2013 November - Netherlands contributes 380 peacekeeping troops to Mali as

part of a UN-led mission that took over from French forces who drove out Islamist
and Tuareg insurgents earlier in the year.

• 2014 July - Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala
Lumpur crashes in eastern Ukraine, close to the border with Russia. The
Netherlands declares national mourning for its 193 citizens who are among the
298 people killed.
• 2015 October - A report by the Dutch Safety Board concludes that flight MH17 crashed in
rebel-held Ukraine because it was hit by a Russian-made Buk missile, but does not say who
fired the missile.

• 2016 September - International prosecutors say flight MH17 was downed over eastern
Ukraine in 2014 by a Buk missile that had come from Russia.

• 2016 December - Far-right politician Geert Wilders is convicted of insulting a group and
inciting discrimination for remarks in 2014 promising he would ensure there were fewer
Moroccans in the Netherlands, but is not punished.

• 2017 March - Diplomatic tension between Turkey and the Netherlands, which blocks
Turkish ministers from rallying support among Turkish expatriates for constitutional changes
ahead of a referendum.

• 2017 June - A Dutch appeals court partly upholds a 2014 ruling that the Netherlands was
liable over the killings of more than 300 Bosnian Muslim men and boys who were sheltering
with Dutch UN peacekeepers at Srebrenica in Bosnia in 1995.

• 2017 October - Prime Minister Mark Rutte forms a coalition after a record 225 days of talks
following elections in March.

• 2018 February - Parliament votes overwhelmingly in favour of recognising the massacres of

up to 1,5 million Armenians by Ottoman troops in 1915 as genocide.
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