WW1

For the official program	For the international Section
August 1914 : Outbreak of the war	August 1914 : DORA*
September 1914 : Battle of the Marne	December 1914 : German raid on Scarborough
Late 1914- Early 1918 : Stalemate
From April 1915 : Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire	April 1915 : Gallipoli Battle
February-December 1916 : Battle of Verdun	1916 : Military Service Act*
	July- November 1916 : Battle of the Somme
February and October 1917 : Russian revolutions December 1917 : Russian Armistice	April 1917 : The United States declared war on Germany
November 1918 : Revolutions in Austria-Hungary and in Germany 11 November 1918 : Armistice : End of WW1
June 1919 : Treaty of Versailles	1919 : Right to vote for women over 30 y.o. in the UK

                                                                                  25 April : ANZAC day

DORA : Defense Of the Realm Act : law passed in August 1914 to limit freedoms in the UK because of the War  

Military Service Act : Before that law in the UK, men had to enlist (= to be volunteer) to become soldier

Propaganda poster : the different targets of propapanda poster (to recruit soldiers [Until 1916] + to convince people that the it is a just war + to encourage people  to give money to pay wepons  and (especially for  women) to work in war factories

What you must know :

-          The different phases of WW1

-          Vocabulary to describe trenches + what were the conditions of life in the trenches

-          To explain why WWI was a ‘total war’

-          To explain why the Home front played an important role in the war

-          The number of soldiers killed during WW1, Which countries had the most casualties

-          The new map of Europe in 1919 : new frontiers of Germany, new countries

-          Why the treaty of Versailles was considered as a humiliation by Germany

-          Who Lenin, Clemenceau, Wilson, Lloyd George were.

Testimonies about WW1:

-          An example of a soldier’s diary :  Billy Congreve

-          Examples of novels  about World War I :

o   Erich Maria Remarque, All quiet on the Western Front (1929)

o   Humphrey COBB, Path of Glory, (1937)

-          Examples of a film  about World War I :Paths of Glory (1957=

Quizz sur la géographie du Royaume Uni

http://lizardpoint.com/geography/england-quiz.php

4e : Chapter 2 : World trade

What you must remember

Case study : the Ipod : itinerary from Shenzhen to New York
Explain the different mean of transport (advantages and disadvantages) + transport in containers ==> in order to ease the transshipment
Share of the price (components, assembling, transport, design, marketing)

World trade today :
- growth of the World trade since 1960
Different types of products exported and their share in the total (agricultural goods, oil and minerals, manufactured goods) + evolution since 1960
- the most important areas for world trade : Asia and Pacific, North America, Europe

World map :
- names of the continents and the oceans and their location
- strategic seaways : location of the different straits and canals

What you must be able to do :
- to describe the itinerary of a boat
- to read a graph and to make a comentary about it

vocabulary : GDP

4e ; Chapter 1 : revolutions in England during the 17th century

Stuart England: How did England become a limited monarchy?

Important dates :

1642 : beginning of the Civil War

1649 : trial and execution of Charles I + beginning of the Commonwealth

1653 : Cromwell became Lord Protector of the Commonwealth

1658 : Oliver Cromwell’s death

1660 : Restoration

1679 : the Habeas Corpus Act

1688 : Glorious revolution

1689 : Bill of Rights + Toleration Act

+ The dates of the reign of the kings or the queens of England from 1603 to 1714

What you must be able to explain :

-          Why there was a Civil war from 1642 to 1649.

-          Why monarchy was restored in 1660.

-          What is the Habeas Corpus about.

-          Why there was a revolution in 1688 and why it is called ‘the Glorious revolution’.

-          What is the Bill of rights about.

-          Who were Newton, Halley, Hooke.

3e : fiche de révision : chapter 1 : A century of scientific and technological advances

Medical inventions : 

Vocabulary :

scientist, inventor, engineer, infant mortality, life expectancy,

To comment on a graph: the curve, to increase, to decrease, to be stable,

Medicine : disease, to cure, to heal, wounds, small pox, vaccine, vaccination, genetics, DNA, a diagnosis, doctor, physician, bacteria, patient, meningitis, scarlet, diphtheria, fever, penicillin, pneumonia, a drug,

Newspaper, cover, post, illustration, a post

to peer inside,

Dates to remember and to be able to explain why it was important

1928 : Fleming discovered penicillin

1953 : Crick discovered DNA

1971 : Hounsfield invented MRI and the scanner

+ 1958 : Norman Rockwell, Before the shot, to be able to describe the painting and what it is showing

To describe a painting : In the foreground, in the background,

Technological inventions:

Vocabulary:

a DAT (Digital Audio Tape), a CD, a microwave oven, a dishwasher, A Personal Computer (PC), High Speed Train, airliner, a mobile phone,

Dates to remember :

1945: the Atomic bomb

1969: First Moon lamding

1990s: Internet website

+ choose 3 other inventions you consider important and explain why.