U12: Transition and Democratic Spain

1) We can prepare this unit with the help of THIS presentation. Notice it has attached some links to videos, songs, documents, etc...

2) Video of the coup d´etat of 23F

3) Here you can watch one PPoint with some basic data about the Comunidad de Madrid as an autonomous community, inside the regions set by the Spanish Constitution of 1978 

Unit 9: Spain under Franco

We can prepare this unit with the help of THIS presentation

Unit 8: Cold War and Decolonization

We will prepare this unit with the help of these presentations:

1) Cold War

2) Begin of the Cold War and the Berlin airlift

3) Atom bomb test (real footage)

4) Introduction to Decolonization (basic concepts)

5) Decolonization

6) Scene from the film "The Battle of Algiers"

7) Trailer from the film "The Battle of Algiers"

Unit 7: Spain: I Restoration, II Republic and Civil War (1874-1939)

1) We can prepare the I Restoration in Spain with the help of THIS presentation for the Alfonso XII´s reign and the Regency of María Cristina

2) THIS presentation will be useful for the reign of Alfonso XIII

3) Very good presentation of the Spanish II Republic

4) Presentation about the Spanish II Republic (1931-39) and the Civil War (1936-39)

5) VIDEO: Brief summary of the Spanish Civil War

6) Colour film about the Civil War

7) Anarchist propaganda video: "Fury over Spain" (1937)

8) Rebel propaganda: the NO-DO


9) Franco´s victory speech

10) Repression on war and post-war Spain

11) Spanish art: Picasso, Dali & Miró 

Unit 6: The Interwar years and WWII

We will prepare this unit with the help of some Power Points:

1) The Russian revolution in detail 

2) The Interwar years (good for the class)

3) Documentary about the WWII

4) Rise of Fascism and WWII

5) National-Socialist propaganda: the film "Triumph des Willens" by Lehni Riefenstahl

6) Film: "Die welle" ("The wave")

Unit 5: Imperialism and the First World War (1870-1918)

This unit covers a lot of different subjects, so we will study them separately. 

1) Let´s start with the International Relationships in the period (1870-1914), in addition of the II Industrial Revolution. You can support our classes and information in our book with THIS PRESENTATION 

2) You will understand much better many aspects of the II Industrial Revolution by watching this VIDEO. It is a fragment from the film "Modern times" (1936), by Charles Chaplin. 

3) Presentation in Power Point about IMPERIALISM 

4) Video about European imperialism in Africa (4 minutes)

5) Video: human zoos in Europe

Battle British "red jackets" vs Zulus in South Africa: Scene of the film "Zulu" (1964) 

5) Battle French colonial troops vs Berber bedouins: film "March or die"

6) Power Point about World War I

7) The Trench War: scene from the film "Gallipolli" 

8) The aims of Modernism

9) Modernism in architecture

10) Impresionism and Post-Impresionism

11) Avantgarde movements in the XXth century

Mandatory reading: SOLMSSEN, A.R.G. "A princess in Berlin"

As a compulsory activity for our course, you have to read a book in English related with the subject, and to present some activities (the teacher will indicate which ones, in the class) BEFORE THE DEADLINE OF MAY, 30th. 

You can read the book (full text) in this LINK 

The book it is a brilliant novel about the Republic of Weimar in Germany (1919-33), and the rise of the National-Socialist party in those dramatic historical moments.