history materials for high school

(upper levels)

DR. ISABEL PEREZ-MOLINA

UNIT 1.- THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD. INTRODUCTION TO THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

• The Age of Revolutions in Europe and the USA
• The industrial revolution
• Imperialism
• Evolution to Democracy and social movements

UNIT 2.- THE WORLD AT WAR

• The First World War (WWI or the Great War)
• The Interwar Period
• Fascism and Nazism
• The Second World War (World War II)

UNIT 3.- THE COLD WAR AND THE EUROPEAN UNION

• The Cold War
• The European Union

UNIT 4.- NINETEENTH CENTURY HERITAGE AND THE DIFFICULT TRANSITION TO CAPITALISM IN SPAIN

UNIT 5.- FROM THE RESTORATION SYSTEM TO THE FAILURE OF PRIMO DE RIVERA’S DICTATORSHIP

• The Restoration
• Primo de Rivera’s Dictatorship

UNIT 6.- THE SECOND REPUBLIC AND THE CIVIL WAR (1931-1939)

• The Second Republic
• The Spanish Civil War

UNIT 7.- FRANCO’S DICTATORSHIP (1939-1975)

UNIT 8.- TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY

UNIT 9.- THE QUESTION OF NATIONALISM

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