Un i t Let ' s get star ted: LEARNING SITUATION Bui ld your understanding ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE BE A HISTORIAN Introduction to History 8 1 The crisis of the Old Regime. The origin of the contemporary world 12 How does education contribute to the development of society? 1. The society and economy of the Old Regime 2. Different political systems 3. The Enlightenment, the seed of contemporary political thought 4. Borbón absolutism in Spain 5. Enlightened despotism in Spain Compare absolutism and parliamentarism using historical texts 2 L i b e ra l re v o l u t i o n s . The conquest of individual and collective rights 32 Why are constitutions one of the foundations of democracy? 1. The American Revolution 2. The outbreak of the French Revolution 3. The radicalisation of the French Revolution 4. Europe under Napoleon 5. Back to the Old Regime: the Conservative Order 6. New revolutionary waves (1820-1848) 7. Nationalism. The unification of Italy 8. The unification of Germany Analyse the Congress of Vienna with a map of Europe Interpret a painting of a historical event 3 The Industrial Revolution and imperialism. Dividing up the world 56 How do technological advances change everyday life? 1. Great Britain: the start of the Industrial Revolution 2. The first pioneering industries 3. The impact of the transport revolution 4. The Second Industrial Revolution 5. The spread of the Industrial Revolution 6. Population and cities in times of industrialisation 7. The class system 8. The birth of the labour movement 9. Imperialism 10. Colonial empires 11. The organisation of the colonies and its effects Get information from a historical recreation Compare the Marxist and anarchist ideologies Interpret the cover of a newspaper 4 The transformation of Spain in the 19th century. The liberal revolution 88 How did Spanish society change at the beginning of the Contemporary Age? 1. The War of Independence and the Parliament of Cádiz 2. Fernando VII, the return to absolutism 3. The independence of the Spanish-American colonies 4. Isabel II and the construction of a liberal state 5. The Sexenio Democrático 6. The Restoration 7. The delay of the Industrial Revolution 8. A new society. The workers' movement Interpret a caricature 5 A tough start to the 20th century. The First World War 112 Why is maintaining peace key to reducing inequalities? 1. How did World War I start? 2. The outbreak of World War I 3. How did the war unfold? 4. Life during World War I 5. Peace and the consequences of World War I 6. 1905, the start of the Russian Revolution 7. From the 1917 revolutions to the civil war Analyse border organisation after World War I using different documents Write Lenin's biography 6 The interwar years: economic crisis and totalitarianism 136 Why is cooperation necessary to preserve democracy? 1. The fragile economic recovery of the 1920s 2. The crash of 1929 and the Great Depression 3. Democracies in crisis 4. Fascist Italy 5. The road to Nazism in Germany 6. Nazi Germany 7. The creation of the USSR 8. The USSR under Stalin's dictatorship Analyse a graph on the post-war crisis Create a timeline from a map Interpret an organisation chart showing the USSR's political system Contents 2
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