UNIT 6 THE SECOND WORLD WAR

The Second World War was a Global military confilct that took place between 1939 and 1945 in which fought two opposing sides: the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy and Japan), and the Allied Powers (Great Britain, France, the USSR and the United States) The Second Wolrd War involved 100 million people and more than 60 million people died.

• Causes of the Second World War
• Participants and phases
• Human, political and territorial consecuences of the war
• The post-war, division of the World 
• Conflicts of the Cold War (1948-1962) and Peceful Coexistence (1963-1975)

UNIT 5. THE INTERWAR PERIOD. FASCISM AND NAZISM

 

UNIT 5 THE INTERWAR PERIOD

 The inter-war years  were marked by important economic and political developments. 

During the 1920s Europe and the United States enjoyed a period of economic prosperity often refereed to as the Roaring Twenties. However, this changed after 1929, when a severe economic crisis known as the Great Depression began.

In political terms, the countries which had participated in the First World War envolved in two different directions. Countries such as Great Britain, France and the United States continued to be democracies. 

Hoever, in other countries authoritarian regimes were stablished. In the cases of the Soviet Union and Germany, these became totalitarian regimes. 

Art reflected the political and economic situation of the interwar  period. It was also often used propaganda by non-democratic regimes.

1. The roaring twenties and the Great Depression. Democratic states
   
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2. Totalitarian regimes: fascism
3. Italian fascism
4. Nazism in Germany

UNIDAD 4. RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. WORLD WAR I

1. Russia: from absolutism to Revolution (19th c. - 1917)
2. The First World War: causes
3. WWI: Participants and phases
4. WWI Consecuences of the conflict
5. El Estado soviético (1921-1953)


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Tarea comentario de mapa (Solución)

Actividades a realizar

(libro Santillana)
act. 1 pág. 125
act. 2 pág. 126
act. 4 pág. 130
act 1-2 pág. 149

(libro Oxford)
pág. 163 act  1-2-3-5-6-7
pág. 167 act 8-9-10-12-13-14-14
pág. 173 act 16-17-18-19

Comentario de texto 

doc. 37 pág. 143 Puntos de Wilson

Mapas a tener en cuenta (Estos mapas también se adjuntan a continuación)

Alliances before WWI (p. 161 libro Oxford)
                                    (p. 124 libro Santillana)

Mapa europeo tras la I Guerra Mundial (p.166 libro Oxford)
                                                                 (p. 131 libro Santillana)


1. RUSSIA: FROM ABSOLUTISM TO REVOLUTION

Bloody Sunday 1905

The Russian Empire

Bloody Sunday St. Petersburg 1905

Lenin (Bolshevik propaganda)

The Bloody Sunday (1905 Revolution from the film Dr. Zhivago)



2. CAUSES OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR

UNIT 4. NATIONALISM AND COLONIALISM

1. La Europa de la Restauración (1815). Principios del Congreso de Viena. Transformaciones del Mapa Europeo.
2. Revoluciones liberales (1820, 30 y 48) Las unificaciones de Alemania e Italia. (Descargar)
3. Imperialismo y Colonialismo (Descargar)


Tarea: Comparación mapas antes y después de Congreso de Viena

1. EL CONGRESO DE VIENA

Principles of the Crongress of Vienna

1. The Principle of Legitimacy: Principio de legitimidad
The diplomats of the Vienna Congress did not give recognition to any political change that had been made in Europe after 1789.
2. The Principle of Balance of Power: Equilibrio de poder
In order to ensure the peace of the whole of Europe, it was decided that the power of different countries should be balanced, so that no country could threaten another one. France was held responsible for disturbing the peace of Europe.

3. Absolutism and tradition
Restoration and return to the Ancien Régime
































2. UNIFICACIONES ITALIA Y ALEMANIA

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3. IMPERIALISM

Around 1870 a new form of colonial expansion took place, called imperialism. Colonialism sought to control resources of the colonized territories. Imperialism on the other hand, aimed to impose ideological domination on the colonized territories as well as exploiting them economically. This expansion was led by Great Britain, and France, and later, by Germany, Belgium, Italy, Russia, USA and Japan.

Films about  Colonial age.


La Guerra del Opio (enfrentamiento bélico entre Gran Bretaña y el Imperio Chino.



 Atrocidades en el Congo Belga
 Protectorado Español en Marruecos (a partir del minuto 7:47)

Reparto colonial de África

Reparto colonial en África

África mapa actual

Mapa colonial Asia

Asia, mapa actual