CLIL History

BETWEEN WAR AND REVOLUTION (1899-1924) ACTIVITY 3.B Listen to the first part of the recording and take notes in order to fill in the gaps in the chart below. The Alliance System listening It was a (1.) ... .............................. among European countries. In 1871 the German Empire signed the Dual Alliance with (2.) ... .............................. , and, when Italy entered the agreement in 1882, it became the (3.) ... ................................. In 1902 the Anglo-Japanese Alliance was signed. From (4.) ............ ... the UK, France and the Russian Empire were tied by the (5.) ................................ . Political Causes The German Empire sought to establish new colonies to sustain its (6.) ... ............................ France wanted to recover Alsace-Lorraine. A key priority of the (7.) ... .......................... was to retain their access to the Mediterranean through the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles (8.) ............ ... . The British Empire aimed at keeping its (9.) ............ ... on the seas, in Asia and in Africa. Economic Causes All the European powers were (10.) ............ ... to extend their dominance by gaining political and economic power on (11.) ... ................................. . The need to exploit (12.) ... ............... .................. and valuable minerals and to open new markets was the root of (13.) ............ ... . Cultural Causes Another cause that led to the crisis in 1914 was the spread of nationalistic (14.) ... ................... . Nationalist movements often exalted war and racial superiority, and applied (15.) ... ....................... to history, considering war as a sort of natural selection mechanism by which the strongest nations could affirm their hegemony. ACTIVITY 3.C Match the following words to their Italian synonyms. heir 1. 5. demands a. incorporated e. govern claims f. supremacy 2. rule 6. sovereignty b. 3. annexed 7. chain reaction c. concatenations g. successor 4. threat 8. supplies d. provisions h. menace ACTIVITY 3.D Listen to the second part of the recording and take notes in order to complete the timeline below. listening Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed in Sarajevo. The Austro-Hungarian Empire ............... .............................. . The Austro-Hungarian Empire declared war on Serbia. The German Empire ................................ .............................. . 23 July 1914 ............................ 1 August 1914 ............................ 10 Italy ......................... ................................ The German Empire declared war on France. The United Kingdom declared war on the German Empire. Japan ..................... .............................. . 2 August 1914 ............................ ............................ 23 August 1914 The Americans formally declared war against the German Empire. ............................