Colonialism

2- Look for information about (a few words and lot of images please):

Bismarck

Prince Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck-Schönhausen Duke of Lauenburg ( April 1, 1815 –July 30,1898) was a very well known aristocrat and statesman of the 19^th century in Europe. As Prime Minister of Prussia from 1862 to 1890, he was mainly responsible for unifying the many independent German countries and founding the German Empire in 1871. He became the first chancellor of the new Empire.

Bismarck was very conservative and he was strongly connected to the monarchy. He was not a big supporter of democracy. His most important goal was to make Prussia stronger and he achieved that through the unification of Germany. Bismarck tried to stop the socialist movement and to reduce the power of the Catholic Church. One way to stop socialism was to make the working class happy. He did that by introducing many social reforms like public health and accident insurance, as well as pensions for old people.

Livingston-Stanley.

David Livingstone (19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and explorer in Africa. His meeting with H.M Stanley gave rise to the popular quotation, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”.

His fame as an explorer helped drive forward the obsession with discovering the sources of the River Nile that formed the culmination of the classic period of European geographical discovery and colonial penetration of the African continent. At the same time his missionary travels, "disappearance" and death in Africa, and subsequent glorification as posthumous national hero in 1874 led to the founding of several major central African Christian missionary initiatives carried forward in the era of the European "Scramble for Africa”.

Suez Canal.

The Suez Canal is a canal in Egypt. It lies west of the Sinai Peninsula. The canal is 163 km long (101 miles) and, at its narrowest point, 300 m wide (984 ft). It runs between Port Said on the Mediterranean Sea and Suez on the Red Sea. It was built by a French company. The canal was started in 1858 and finished in 1869.

The canal allows boats/ships to travel from Europe to Asia without having to go the way around Africa. It was built to go from Egypt to the Indian Ocean.

3- Visit the page of British Lybrary that permit you to read old newspapers, select one, for example, The News of the world, and look for news about colonialism, for example in 1886. Choose one and write a brief comment (summarysing and explaining it).

- News of the world 1,918 December.

http://www.uk.olivesoftware.com/Default/Skins/BL/Client.asp?Skin=BL&enter=true&AppName=2&AW=1299849479850

4- Listen this song, what are they talking about?

The song talks about Colonialism. One person make question for the place what was colonize and the conquering answer the things what he view in this place.

Labour Movement

1- Mention some laws achieved by workers in England improving their work conditions.
The workers make strikes and demonstrations to achieve common goals: 8 hours labor, 8 hours recreation and 8 hours for rest.

2- What happened the first of May?
May Day occurs on May 1 and refers to several public holidays. In many countries, May Day is synonymous with International Workers’ Day, or Labour Day, a day of political demonstrations and celebrations organised by the unions, communists, anarchists, and socialist groups. May Day is also a traditional holiday in many cultures.

May Day can refer to various labour celebrations conducted on May 1 that commemorate the fight for the eight hour day. May Day in this regard is called International Workers’ Day, or Labour Day . The idea for a "workers holiday" began in Australia in 1856; after a Stonemason's victory, April 22nd was "Eight-Hour Day", a public holiday. With the idea having spread around the world, the choice of May 1st became a commemoration by the Second International for the people involved in the 1886 Haymarket affair.

3- Look for information about the suffragettes. Who was Emily Davison?

Suffragette is a term originally coined by the Daily Mail newspaper as a derogatory label for members of the late-19th and early-20th century movement for women’s suffrage in the United Kingdom, in particular members of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU). However, after former and then active members of the movement began to reclaim the word, the term became a label without negative connotations. It derives from the word "suffrage", meaning the right to vote. They wanted to be involved in the running of the country and they wanted to be treated as equals to men.

Emily Wilding Davison also believed very strongly about suffrage and went to the extremes of killing herself by being trampled by King George V's horse, called Anmer, at the Epsom Derby on June 4, 1913. She died a few days later, on June 8. By the 1920's most women could vote and, in 1970, the fist Swiss woman was voted prime minister.

After reading exercise

- Make a short framework with causes and consequences of:

- Do you find some similarities the two crisis?

Yes, I find one the two crisis had problems with the stock exchenge because the prices rise and down frequently.

Imaxina por Jonh Lennon

Vietnam War

The Vietnam War (also known as Second Indochina War or American War in Southest Asia) lasted from 1959 to 1975. It was fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam . North Vietnam was supported by the USSR, China and North Korea, while South Vietnam was supported by the United States with its allies South Korea, Thailand, Australia, New Zeland and the Philippines. This conflict between communists and pro-American countries was part of the Cold War.

Background and causes

Before World War II, Vietnam was part of the French colony of Indochina. During World War II, the Japanese occupied Indochina. When the French attempted to take back control after the Japanese surrendered, they were opposed by a Vietnamese army called the Vietminh. The Vietminh had been founded in 1941 by the communist party and was led by Hồ Chí Minh. In July 1954, France and the Vietminh signed the Geneva Peace Accord. The Vietminh became the government of North Vietnam while anti-communist Vietnamese, especially Catholics, "regrouped" in the South under the leadership of Bao Dai, a former emperor of Vietnam who had abdicated in 1945.

The United States backed the anti-communist government in South Vietnam. It began to send military advisers to help train and support the South Vietnamese army. The South was fighting the Viet Cong, which began a campaign of assassination in 1957. In 1959, North Vietnam dramatically increased its military assistance to the Vietcong, which then began attacking South Vietnamese military units.

The industrial revolution

Some exercise:
1- Complete this table comparing the first and second industrial revolution:

2- Visit this web-site and find out more about children life in Victoria times, during the industrial revolution:
· Introduction
In Victoria´s times there were big differences in homes, schools, toys and entertainments. No TV, no computers, no central heating, no cars (until the last few years of Victoria's reign). No air travel - unless you went up in a balloon! Many children went to work, not to school. Welcome to the Victorian world. It's time to find out how children (your great-great-great-grandparents perhaps!) lived more than a hundred years ago.
· What jobs did children do?
Children worked on farms, in homes as servants, and in factories. Children often did jobs that required small size and nimble fingers. But they also pushed heavy coal trucks along tunnels in coal mines. Boys went to sea, as boy-sailors, and girls went 'into service' as housemaids. Children worked on city streets, selling things such as flowers, matches and ribbons. Crossing boys swept the roads clean of horse-dung and rubbish left by the horses that pulled carts and carriages
· Where did Victorian children play?
Although many children worked in Victorian times, they still had time to play.
Outdoors, most Victorian children played in the street or in the fields and woods. Not many families had gardens big enough to play in, and there were no children's playgrounds. Rich families had playrooms or nurseries, but poorer children played wherever they could find space. With ten or more children often crammed into one or two rooms, play-space for poor families was a luxury. Playing outside was the usual escape.
· Books for children
Victorian children were often given books with improving moral lessons, about characters with names like Lazy Lawrence and Simple Susan.
3-Watch this video of modern times film, what do you think that Charles Chaplin want to say?
Charles Chaplin wants to say the industrialization move on quickly.

Thomas Alva Edison

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor, scientist and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world. He was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and large teamwork to the process of invention invention, and therefore is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory. Edison's Menlo Park laboratory complex is said to live on in California's "invention factory" at Silicon Valley.
Edison is considered one of the most prolific inventors in history, as well as many patents in the United Kingdom, France and Germany. He is credited with numerous inventions that contributed to mass communication and in particular telecommunications. One of the most popular invention was the telegraph operator. Edison originated the concept and implementation of electric-power generation and distribution to homes, businesses, and factories – a crucial development in the modern industrialized world. His first power station was on Manhattan Island New York.
Edison´s invents: