Tema 6: Tensiones y conflictos.

Watch the following video about the Industrial Revolution ant try to answer the questions below:

1. Where did most people work in the late 1700?
2. Where did these important changes and innovations appear?
3. What did the new machines achieve?
4. Where did the mechanization begin? 
5. Families moved from ______ _____________ of their ancestors to new ___________  __________
6. What is the new social class?
7. How many people were employed by industrialists?
8. What did the workers and reformers form to protect themselves from the abuses of the industrialists?
9. A ten-year-old mill girl says they were paid: 
1. Two dollars a day
2. Two dollars a week
3. Two hundred dollars a month 
10. She had to work
1. From 8 am to 2 pm
2. From 7 o'clock in the morning to 7 in the evening
3. From 5 o'clock in the morning to 7 in the evening
11. What is it called the world where we live today? Why?

UNIT TWO: Napoleonic Empire

SOURCE 1

Here you have a comment about the objectives and achievements of Napoleon:

"Napoleon was a real man as well as a legend. It was Napoleon himself who helped to create this legend. He wrote his memoirs while exiled on St. Helena between 1815 and 1821. He tells us his aim was to defend the Revolution and consolidate its gains. He emerges as a champion of equality, a supporter of popular sovereignty, a destroyer of privilege and a lover of peace. According to Napoleon, his vision was to create a United States of Europe. He wanted to free Europe from tyranny, oppression and despotism. As we know full well, this never happened. However, he did help to consolidate many gains of the Revolution. But, such a view ignores the downside of Napoleon -- his repression of liberty, the general subversion of republicanism, and the oppression of conquered peoples.

Historians would agree on two things about Napoleon. First, he was an extraordinary man, a self-made man. His drive, will, military genius and charisma made him a great man, a world historical figure, a man who made history. Machiavelli would have found Napoleon to be his perfect prince. Second, by spreading revolutionary ideals and institutions, Napoleon made it impossible for the restoration of the ancien regime. After Napoleon there was no turning back: feudalism was dead, society was secularized, the modern nation state replaced the dynastic state, and the bourgeoisie became the new class of privilege and status."

From:  http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/lecture15a.html 

SOURCE 2: In his speech during the coup d'etat of 1799 he said to the Assembly:

"Frenchmen, without a doubt, you will see in what I did that I am a soldier who supports liberty and am a citizen who is devoted to the republic"

SOURCE 3

1. What did Napoleon mean in his speech? 

2. What is the image this cartoon wanted to transmit?

2. Did his words correspond whith the meanig of the image?

UNIT TWO: American revolutionary war

The American Revolutionary War (1776 - 1783)

LEY DE REFORMA AGRARIA, 1932

Ley de bases para la Reforma Agraria (1932)

[...] Serán susceptibles de explotación las tierras incluidas en los siguientes apartados:

1.º Las ofrecidas voluntariamente por sus dueños siempre que su adquisición se considere de interés por el Instituto de Reforma Agraria [...].

5.° Las que por las circunstancias de su adquisición, por no ser explotadas directamente por los adquirentes y por las condiciones personales de los mismos, deba presumirse que fueran compradas con fines de especulación o con el único objeto de percibir su renta [...].

7.° Las incultas o manifiestamente mal cultivadas en toda aquella porción que, por su fertilidad y favorable situación permita un cultivo permanente, con rendimiento económico superior al actual [...].

Causas: 
Objetivos:

Proceso: 

Conclusión: fracaso y consecuencias.

LA ORGANIZACIÓN DE LA PAZ

Postdam conference

COMENTARIO DE TEXTO: Acuerdos  de Postdam
Art. 1. Desarme completo y desmilitarización completa de Alemania (…).
Art. 3. Supresión del partido nacionalsocialista y (…) disolución de todas las instituciones nazis.
Art. 5. Los criminales de guerra (…) serán detenidos y sometidos a juicio.
Art. 7. La educación alemana será controlada de forma que elimine completamente las doctrinas nazis y militaristas, y que permita el feliz desarrollo de las ideas democráticas.

Sigue el guión:

1.      Lectura

2.    Vocabulario. Busca las palabras clave y defínelas

3.      Clasificación:

a.       Fuente: Primaria

b.      Formato: Acuerdo

c.       Naturaleza: Político - circunstancial
d. Autor/es y fecha

4.      Análisis:

a.       Tema: 

b.      Partes: Se han seleccionado 4 artículos referentes a ...

                                                        

5.      Comentario:

a.       ¿Qué es Postdan? / ¿Dónde? /¿Cuándo?/¿Quiénes la integran?

b.      A parte de los puntos que aparecen en el comentario, otras decisiones (relacionar con Yalta)

c.       ¿Consecuencias de Postdam?

                              

Unit 8: Fascism and Nazism: Weimar Republic

The Beer Hall Putsch, also known as the Munich Putsch, was a failed coup attempt by the Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler — along with General quarter master Erich Ludendorff and other Kampfbund leaders — to seize power in Munich, Bavaria, during 8–9 November 1923. About two thousand men marched to the centre of Munich where they confronted the police, which resulted in the death of 16 Nazis and four policemen.

After two days, Hitler was arrested and was charged with treason. From Hitler's perspective, there were three positive benefits from this attempt to seize power unlawfully. First, the putsch brought Hitler to the attention of the nation. His arrest was followed by a 24-day trial, which gave him a platform to publicize his nationalist sentiment to the nation. Hitler was found guilty of treason and he was sentenced to five years. The second benefit to Hitler resulted in the production of his book Mein Kampf, which was dictated to his fellow prisoner, Rudolf Hess. Hitler was released on 20 December 1924, having served only nine months. The final benefit that accrued to Hitler was the insight that the path to power was through legitimate means. Revolution and anarchy was not the answer to the pursuit of power. Accordingly, the most significant outcome of the putsch was a decision by Hitler to change NSDAP tactics, which would demand an increasing reliance on the development and furthering of Nazi propaganda.

From Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Hall_Putsch

"In hyperinflation, a kilo of potatoes was worth, to some, more than the family silver; a side of pork more than the grand piano. A prostitute in the family was better than an infant corpse; theft was preferable to starvation; warmth was finer than honour, clothing more essential than democracy, food more needed than freedom."

From the book of Adam Ferguson: “When Money dies”
http://www.claseshistoria.com/entreguerras/periodocrisisalemania.htm

1.       Read the text about the Putsch of Munich and answer:

a.       Translate the underlined words.

b.      Who were the leaders of the coup d’Etat?

c.       The Spartacist Uprising was a communist rebellion. What was the political ideology during the Putsch?

d.      The main leaders were imprisoned. Which three benefits did this situation provide Hitler with? (Summarize them in three sentences. Do not copy. Use your words)

2.       Read the Adam Ferguson's text and try to explain it.

3.       Why did the German economy change since 1924?

4.       Why did the Crash of New York affect Germany so much?