SANTILLANA HISTORY SYLLABUS 4th ESO

Lesson 1. The 18th Century: The Old Regime

The survival of the Old Regime

A basically rural world
3. The government at the beginning of the 18th century
4. The Enlightenment and Enlightened Despotism
5. The end of the 18th century: liberalism and the collapse of the Old Regime
6. Spain: the Bourbon reformism
7. The culture of the 18th century

Unit 2. Political Revolutions (1776-1848)

The First Break: The American Revolution

2. The outbreak of the French Revolution
3. The suppression of the Ancien Régime (1789-1792)
4. The Radicalization of the French Revolution
5. The Napoleonic Empire
6. The Restoration
7. A new revolutionary wave (1820-1848)
8. The independence of Latin America
9. Art in the Age of Revolutions

Unit 3. The Industrial Revolution

The factors of the first industrial revolution

The first industrial revolution (1780-1860)
3. The transport revolution
The second industrial revolution: the birth of large industry
5. The effects of industrialization on the population and cities
6. The emergence of a class society. The upper classes
7. The situation of the middle and lower classes
8. The emergence of the labor movement
9. The cultural change

Unit 4. Nations and Empires (1850-1914)

The triumph of nationalism in Europe

2. The construction of a nation: United States
3. Liberalism and authoritarianism in Europe
4. The origins of European imperialism
5. The great colonial empires
6. The administration and life in the colonies
7. The culture between 1870 and 1914: the 'belle époque'

You 5. Spain in the 19th century

War and revolution (1808-1814)

2. The reign of Ferdinand VII: the resistances to change
3. The reign of Isabel II: the construction of the liberal State
4. The end of Queen Isabel II's reign and the Democratic Six Years (1868-1874)
 5. The Restoration: the return to constitutional monarchy
6. Economic development
7. The demographic and social change

Unit 6. Tensions and conflicts (1914-1939)

The origin of World War I

2. The development of World War I (1914-1918)
3. A different conflict
4. The consequences of the conflict and the organization of peace
5. The 'Roaring Twenties'?
The crisis of the nineteen thirties
A time of intense social change
A time of significant cultural changes

Week 7. The USSR, a new model of State

The fall of tsarism in Russia (1905-February 1917)

2. The Bolshevik Revolution or October Revolution (1917-1921)
3. The Formation of the Soviet State (1921-1929)
4. The Stalinist dictatorship (1929-1953)
5. The construction of an economic power

Unit 8. Fascism and Nazism

1. Fascist Italy: general characteristics

2. Germany in the post-war period: the Weimar Republic (1919-1933)
3. Hitler comes to power
4. The ideology of Nazism
5. Domestic policy: a totalitarian regime
6. Foreign policy: militarism and expansionism

Unit 9. The Second World War

1. The failure of collective security and the march towards war (1930-1939)
2. The German Offensive (1939-1941)
3. The Allied Victory (1942-1945)
4. The organization of peace
5. The consequences of the war

You 10. Spain from 1902 to 1939

The crisis of liberalism (1898-1931)

2. The Second Republic: a democratic regime
The Reformist Biennium (1931-1933)
4. The Conservative Biennium and the Popular Front (1933-1936)
5. The outbreak of the Civil War
6. The evolution of war
7. Living in war
8. The Silver Age of Spanish culture
Unit 11. The Cold War (1945-1991)

The origins of the Cold War

2. The phase of maximum tension (1947-1953)
3. The Western bloc: members and characteristics
4. The communist bloc: members and characteristics
5. The weapons of the Cold War
6. From Détente to the New Cold War (1953-1989)

Unit 12. Decolonization

1. Decolonization: definition, causes, and means

2. Decolonization in Asia
3. Decolonization in Africa
4. Middle East: an unresolved conflict
5. The Birth of the Third World

Ud 13. In a world of the Cold War

The Western bloc: from welfare to crisis

2. United States, the great Western power
3. Western Europe: the birth of the EEC
4. Japan: the great Asian power
5. The USSR and the people's democracies
6. China: revolution and Maoism
7. The evolution of Latin America, Africa, and Asia

Lesson 14. The dictatorship of Franco (1939-1975)

1. The general characteristics of the Francoist dictatorship

2. The post-war years (1939-1945): fascism and misery
3. The establishment of the regime (1945-1959)
4. The changes of the sixties
5. The final crisis of the dictatorship

The world in the early 21st century

The disappearance of the communist bloc

United States, the only superpower
3. The consolidation of the European Union
4. Other great powers: Russia and China
The Islamic world
6. Major conflicts of recent years
7. Globalization and underdevelopment
8. A society in transformation
9. The culture of our time

Unit 16. Spain: Transition and Democracy

A transition without a break

2. The governments of democracy
3. Domestic policy: freedoms and the State of Autonomies
4. The normalization of international policy
5. Economic modernization and the welfare state
6. The intense social change