UNIT 7 - THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND DECOLONISATION

We are going to focus on a new unit related with the II World War and Decolonisation. The biggest conflict in the world History was a terrible event that showed the worst face of the human being...

We have visited Auschwitz...now we are going to study...

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Unit 7 - The IIWW and decolonisation de IES - ORNIA - LA BAÑEZA (LEÓN)

Kings Unit 6

Thursday 31st October, 1929

Economy

Millions of  losses in the bank crash

More than four thousand millions of dolars were discounted and more than two hundred sixty thousand actions of different companies were lost. At the end of last Thursday 24th, the fall was only 12 points, hardly nothing, but it had left in the most complete ruin to many American families.

People in New York after the bank crash

All started the previous year when there was a stagnation of consumption, so that the income of the companies did not offer the desired benefits to the producer.

In March of this year the strong increases continued, however, they began to circulate rumors that the Federal Reserve prepared measures that could mitigate possible economic recessions. 

The 25th of march of this year, the index fell 9,5 points. The scare was quickly forgotten and soon the Stock Exchange began to rise again with force. It was just a fall before continuing to climb, thought most. On the other hand, some investors took advantage of the two days of falling to buy "cheaper".

Colapse in Wall Street.

Then a few months later on Wednesday 23 of October, the stock market suffered a major blow by lowering in a single session 31 points (almost a 7%). That day was only an omen of what would happen the next day: the fateful and remembered Black Thursday of Wall Street.

On Thursday, October 24, according to historians, it was the first day of panic. That day 12 894 650 actions were transferred, many of them at prices that destroyed the dreams and hopes of those who had possessed them.

On Tuesday, October 29, confirm these suspicions less and less unfounded. The total collapse was an imminent reality. Millions of investors saw themselves from one day to the next in economic ruin: the New York Stock Exchange, the most important stock market in the world, had fallen.

The worst part of this unfortunate fact are the numerous suicides of presidents of various companies when they discovered that their actions had gone down dramatically.

OBITUARIES

                       

The Dictators

Suffragist rolled in the Epson Derby.

The suffragist Nancy Davidson was brutally rolled by the king's horse at the Epson Derby yesterday 4 of June in an act of manifestation.

Emily Wilding Davison was born in Blackheath in southeast London on 11 October 1872. She studied at Royal Holloway College and at Oxford University, although women are not allowed to take degrees.

By 1911, Davison was becoming increasingly militant.

 Yesterday, 4 June , she ran out in the last curve of the Epson Derby in front of the king's horse as it was taking part in it. Her purposes 
were suffragist ones, it is believed  that she was trying to put a suffragette poster on a horse to be allowed the vote for women but she was tragically and brutally trampled. At the moment she is in critical state debating between life and death. The rider called Herbert Jones suffered a mild contussion. 

This is not the first violent act of this women who was calified as one of the most agressive suffragist. Some of her suffragist partners questioned her methods. Emily begun to appear in different public acts to interrupt the public order throwing stones and attacking directly some people.

Her actitude took her to prision in 9 times where she decided to go on a hunger strike as a way of protest. Emily suffered serious fractures in the head and  the spine when the guards try to fed her up by the force. When she was serving a sentence in Holloway she decided to throw herself downstairs as a protes of her bad conditions.

She is actually nearly dead but if she recover we are sure that she won't finish her personally suffragist movement and she won't stop until she get her objective, the most important, the vote for women.

                   

THE EXECUTIONERS - UNIT 6

5th  May  1945

MUSSOLINI IS DEATH 

After years of suffering the partisans finish with the life of Mussolini.

Benito Mussolini

On 28th April a dream for the population comes true, the head of The Fascist Party of Italy, Italian Prime Minister and President of the Italian Social Republic was murdered.

In a vain attempt to flee Italy, Mussolini was captured by the Italian Resistance along with his mistress Clara Petacci and other fascist leadres. Although Mussolini initially believed that Audisio, leader of the group of communist partisants, was coming to liberate them, he took them to the village of Giulino di Mezzegra where, next to Via XXIV Maggio, and before the gates of Villa Belmonte, they were shot at 16:10.

The secret and expeditious method of execution was decided with the alleged intention of the Allies to capture Mussolini alive and prosecute him before and international tribunal. There was the possibility that he would be given a shorter sentence or absolved, while many partisans demanded instead that the dead penalty be applied to the Duce as finally decreed.

Bodies of the fascist party

The corpses were moved in the afternoon of the same day but until 29th they weren't hung. This was done to publicly confirm his death, and as a gesture of humiliation and partisan revenge, since in that same place the bodies of 15 antifascist partisans had been hung months before. The body of Mussolini was disfigured with blows to such an extent that it was almost unrecognizable.

What will happen now to Italy?

           

GROUP 2- HITLER´S VICTORY

HITLER'S VICTORY

Adolf Hitler has won the elections. 

As you all know, Hitler ran against Hindenburg in the 1932 presidential elections. Although he lost the elections to Hindenburg, his party became a really influencial political party, as well as Hitler, who became a powerful politician. After his appointment as Chancellor last year after two elections On 30 January 1933, the new cabinet was sworn in during a brief ceremony in Hindenburg's office. The NSDAP gained three posts: Hitler was named chancellor,Wilhelm Frick Minister of the Interior, and Hermann Göring Minister of the Interior for Prussia. Hitler had insisted on the ministerial positions as a way to gain control over the police in much of Germany. 

Some people say that the turning point which led to Hitler’s victory was the fire that destroyed the Reichstag last February, started by the communists and the Reichstag Fire Decree that came soon after. After that, 4000 communists were arrested and incarcelated without a trial. During the campaign, Hitler promoted anti-communist and paramilitary propaganda. Yesterday, March 6th, the election day, NSDPA’s share increased a 43.9% over the last election. Now, the NSDPA is the most powerful party in the country and has the highest number of seats in the parliament. Now, Hitler’s mission is to negotiate and form a Government. Long may he rule!

GROUP 5 - THE SANS CULOTTES- MARCH ON ROME

Thursday November 2nd, 1922 - article writted from London , England.

Mussolini invades Rome

Italy is in a state of emergency

Mussolini before the march.

The tension experienced in recent weeks in the Italian capital has finally ceased. 
Mussolini ordered in mid-October that all the members of the National Fascist Party prepare to carry out mass public demonstrations in all the major cities of Italy, resorting to all possible violence, if necessary.
By that date, the fascists had succeeded, through various aggressions and threats, in forcing the resignation of almost all the socialist authorities of Northern Italy, a region they dominated in a few days, in the face of the passivity of the army and the police.

Mussolini with the black shirts.

Before an order of Mussolini, masses of fascists threw themselves both on roads and trains to go to Rome, in order to take power for their leader. Armed with only a few guns, steel clubs and homemade weapons, the black shirts went to the Italian capital since last month 22th, threatening to provoke a civil war if the authorities blocked them. The fascists protesters went by rail, in cars or trucks, and even on foot those who resided in nearby regions. By October 25, a large mass of black shirts had reached the outskirts of Rome and their number increased in days days.

Yesterday, Mussolini installed his government in Rome.  On October 29, King Víctor Manuel III asked Mussolini to be the prime minister and to form a cabinet, given by the pressure and circumstances of the moment.Traveling from Milan by train, Mussolini formed the government in Rome on October 30. About 25,000 lady's dresses were transported to the city only that day, from where they marched in a triumphal ceremonial parade on October 31, 1922. Andrew Bonar Law the English Prime Minister has declared his displeasure before the new totalitarian regime of Italy. From the writing of the newspaper we agree with him.

 here is a video about the March on Rome.

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CONTENTS UNIT 6 - THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, THE INTER WAR PERIOD AND THE SUFFRAGIST MOVEMENT

Here we have a very interesting subject; a difficult period in which the context of Russia, the enormous country governed by the Tsar, change drastically while the economic situation of the world led to the rising of totalitarianism. At the same time, the fight for women´s rights continued...

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the executioners unit 5

8th October 1916

THE MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS UNITED ENEMIES

Tired of fighting, the British and German troops come together to play football, forgetting their differences.

These Christmas of 1914 took place a truce between Germans and British on the border between German and French lands. During this truce both troops held several football matches in no man`s land. Now the truth comes to light thanks to the interview we have been able to make to an old soldier wounded in the trenches that participated in these football matches.

These are the statements:

Q: How were the days in the trenches?

A: The days were very hard, the cold, hunger and diseases made it an agony. The noise of the shots and the grenades instead os the sound os the birds, the heartrending screams of men leaving broken families, was a real torture. Every night we went to sleep giving thanks for having lived another day but afraid it was our last day.

Q: What kind of diseases did you get?

A: The conditions in which we were, made us contract tuberculosis and pneumonias but the most frecuent was the so called trench fever caused by infected wounds.

Q: Did you participated in the Christmas truce?

A: Yes, it was the only day in which we rested from all the noises and worries of the war that we had to suffer, you could see how we had many things in common...after all none of us who were there wanted the war.

Q:Tell me more about the day of the truce.

A: We played a soccer match in no man`s land, it was incredible how we could understand each other despite being opponents. But after finishing the truce everything came back to the violence, pain and suffering.

Q:What is the hardest thing you`ve seen?

A: The hardest thing I`ve seen has been that in an attack my brother and I were going togheter and suddenly a bullet went through his head, I could see how his gesture froze and his whole body fell to the floor leaving his wife`s letters whitout answers.

Q:Which is the hardest things you have done?

A: Kill so many people and have destroyed so many families, left orphan children.

As we can see the conditions in the trenches were horrible and we wait that all the soldiers who survived can live in peace.

The Kings Unit 5

24th October, 1873

Foreign policy

The great emperors are joined

The last saturday, 22nd of October, the leaders of the three most powerfull countries in Europe: Wilhelm I of  the German Empire, Tsar Alexander II with the Russian Empire and Franz Joseph of the Austria-Hungarian Empire; agreed to cooperate between them and against France and the governments of liberal ideas.

Otto von Bismark

The idea of this agreement come of Germany and particularly of the German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck due to his plan to keep France isolated and away from any diplomatic alliance, and to keep Austria-Hungary and Russia as potential allies of the German Empire. With this plan Bismarck avoided that, after the defeat of 1870 in the Franco-Prussian War of the Third French Republic, France could obtaine some external support if it tried a warlike conflict with Germany to recover the regions of Alsace and Lorraine.

Wilhelm I, Franz Joseph and Tsar Alexander II 

Germany first began with the negotations
with Austria and then Russia, that fears the strength of this new alliance, considered that was best to join it. The saturday, the "League of the Three Emperors" was
formed, which unites Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia and that presents a strong opposition against France, and also against socialism. Althought the agreement was successfully carried out, the rest of Europe suspect that it can't last for a long time  because, both, Russia and Austria want the control of the Balkans.

The agreemnet between the three leaders guarantees the neutrality of their countries in case of conflict with another nation. They want to consolidate the general peace through an understanding and to assure the defensive position of their respective States, they have reached an agreement on certain issues that affect their reciprocal interests.

We hope that the agreement come only with good news for the rest of Europe and no more conflicts.