Vídeos sobre la Alta Edad Media (Bizancio, Islam y Carolingios)

Los alumnos de 2º ESO (bueno, y quien quiera) pueden encontrar muy clarificantes y entretenidos estos cuatro videos acerca de los cuatro temas que se abordan en la Unidad 1: la caida del Imperio Romano de Occidente, el Imperio Bizantino, el Islam y el Imperio Carolingio.

El reino Visigodo y Al-Ándalus. Video.

Video de artehistoria sobre los visigodos en Hispania y la presencia musulmana en la Península Ibérica. 

Key People & Terms

A list of key people and terms you need to know in order to understand The Cold War.  

Presidents of the USA
- Harry S Truman
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- John F. Kennedy
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Richard M. Nixon
 - Gerald Ford
- Jimmy Carter
- Ronald Reagan
- George Bush Sr.  

Leaders of the Soviet Union
- Joseph Stalin
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Leonid Brezhnev
- Yuri Andropov
- Konstantin Chernenko
 - Mikhail Gorbachev  

Other important international leaders
- Winston Churchill
- Robert Atlee
- Mao Zedong
- Ho Chi Minh
- Fidel Castro
- Alexander Dubcek
- Willy Brandt
- Ayatollah Khomeini
- Gamal Abdel Nasser
- Jawaharlal Nehru
- Josip Broz “Tito”
 - Ahmed Sukarno
- Lech Walesa  

Other important people
- Joseph McCarthy
- Yuri Gagarin
- Valentina Tereshkova
- Alan Shepard
- John Glenn
- Neil Armstrong
- Buzz Aldrin
- Michael Collins

Terms and Events
- Cold War
- Truman Doctrine
- Yalta and Potsdam Conferences
- Salami Tactics
- Iron Curtain
- Red Army
 - Red Scare
- Berlin Blockade
 - Berlin Airlift
 - Marshall Plan and COMECON
- NATO and Warsaw Pact
- Chinese Communist Revolution
- Korean War
- Destalinization
- Hungarian Uprising
- Dètente
- Suez Crisis
- Cuban Revolution
- Berlin Wall
- Bay of Pigs
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Vietnam War
- Vietminh
- Vietcong
- Watergate
- 1973 Oil Crisis
- CIA
- KGB
- Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
- Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars)
- Glasnost and Perestroika
- Fall of the Berlin Wall
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union 

Cold War Timelines

You have some examples of cold war timelines below to prepare the exam about Cold War. Apart from these ones, I strongly recommend the timelines which you can find here and here

The Cold War: Homework Practice

As I announced yesterday, here you can find the information about your homework. As you can see, I only notify you of the first and second chapter exercises. The rest of the homework will be set in class next Friday.

Chapter 1. Cold War Superpowers Face Off

Page 970 (Section Assessment)--- Exercises 1 (Terms and Names section); 3, 4, 5 (Main Ideas Section); 7,8 (Critical Thinking and Writing Section)

Chapter 2. Communists Take Power in China

Page 975 (Section Assessment)--- Exercises 1 (Terms and Names Section); 6 (Critical Thinking and Writing Section)


That's all Folks!

The Cold War

Welcome to the first blog entry in English. Currently, we are studying the Cold War lesson in the World Contemporary History subject. Here you can find two videos used as a lesson summary

 


  

PAEG Historia de España 2015

Como no queréis visitarme, os explico cómo será el examen de la PAEG de este año, a fin de que podáis elegir la estrategia de estudio más adecuada. Así que si os interesa, pinchad en Más información