El régimen nazi

El fascismo italiano

Activities about the 'Roaring Twenties'

THE UNITED STATES: FROM PROSPERITY TO CRISIS

1.       When and where did the ‘Roaring Twenties’ took place? Define ‘Roaring Twenties’

2.       What were the reasons of economic growth in the USA?

3.       What was the main consequence of this prosperity?

4.       Name the three elements that led to the crisis of 1929.

Vídeo sobre el funcionamiento de la bolsa

Os dejo este vídeo sobre el funcionamiento de la bolsa

Resumen del periodo de entreguerras

La Rusia de los zares y la Revolución Rusa

Europa al finalizar la Primera Guerra Mundial

English activities - Life on the front - A total war

1.       Listening: text about soldiers’ life on the front.

a)      Name at least two new weapons that were used in World War I

b)      What happened to the wounded soldiers?

c)       What did soldiers have to do everyday?

d)      Describe an offensive in a few words.

2.       Answer these questions about ‘A total war’

a)      How was World War I called a hundred years ago?

b)      Why did it affect the entire population?

c)       What advancements made this war to be the first war that caused a great refugee movement?

d)      What was made in the factories during the war? Who worked in them?

e)      Where was hunger harder, in the cities or in the countryside?

f)       What was the main country that gave loans to the allies?

g)      Name two ways in which the governments censored anti-war opinions.

h)      What was the objective of the 1916 poster?

Fases de la Primera Guerra Mundial

The legacy of colonialism

There are the sentences that you have to include in the chart:

a.       Europeans drew new borders in the territory

b.      Europeans cut down forests and turned large untouched natural spaces into agricultural areas.

c.       Colonizers built ports, roads, railways, telephone lines, etc. to exploit the colonies

d.      Europeans built new cities

e.      Europeans changed the economic, political and social structures in Africa without considering peoples’ tribal, linguistic and religious differences.

f.        Epidemics decreased because of the creation of hospitals, the introduction of vaccines and better hygiene.

g.       The population increased because the death rate dropped.

h.      Malnutrition increased because population grew but resources didn’t.

i.         Traditional crops were replaced by large plantations that benefited the metropole.

j.        Indigenous families were forced to work in the plantations.

k.       The production of traditional crafts ended.

l.         Industrial products at low prices and in large quantities were imported from the metropole.

m.    Indigenous peoples lost their traditions, beliefs and ways of life as Europeans imposed theirs.

n.      Missionaries spread Christianity.