CLIL UNIT ---- THE REVOLUTION OF 1905

'Bloody sunday', tsar nicholas ll's troops shooting

demonstrators outside of the winter palace in 

st, petersburg, russia, january 22, 1905, 

still taken from the 1925 soviet film 'the ninth of january'.

The Russian Revolution of 1905 began in St. Petersburg when troops fired on a defenseless crowd of workers, who, led by a priest, Father Gapon, were marching to the Winter Palace to petition Czar Nicholas II.

Over 100 workers were killed and some 300 wounded. This incident, known as Bloody Sunday, was followed in succeeding months by a series of strikes, riots, assassinations, peasant outbreaks and naval mutinies. In June, 1905, sailors on the Potemkin battleship, protested against the serving of rotten meat. . The Potemkin Mutiny spread to other units in the army and navy. Now industrial workers all over Russia went on strike and in October, 1905, the action of railwaymen paralyzed the whole Russian railway network.

These disorders joined with the disaster of the Russo-Japanese War (1904–5) when, in January 1904 the Japanese besieged Port Arthur, a Russian naval base and attacked the Russian Pacific Fleet destroying it in 45 minutes. Russian forces were left without supplies as the Trans-Siberian Railway was unfinished and there was no effective way of moving troops from the west.

The embarrassment of defeat to an Asiatic power added to the view that Tsarist government was incompetent. 

Nicholas II of Russia

So the government promised the establishment of a consultative duma, or assembly. Nonetheless, unsatisfied popular demands provoked a general strike, and in a manifesto issued in October the czar granted civil liberties and a representative DUMA to be elected democratically.

At their first meeting, members of the Duma put forward a series of demands including the release of political prisoners, trade union rights and land reform. Nicholas II rejected all these proposals and dissolved the Duma.

In April, 1906, Nicholas II chose the more conservative  Peter Stolypin who attempted to provide a balance between the introduction of land reforms and the suppression of the radicals. The next Duma convened in February, 1907. This time it lasted three months before the Tsar closed it down.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM --- QUESTIONS

1) Explain ,by your own words, the definition of Imperialism.

2) What was the period of the imperialistic policies ?

3) Explain the economical causes of Imperialism.

4) What were the new imperialistic states?

5) Why did the western peoples think they were superior compared to the non-Western peoples?

6)Which was the most colonized continent?

CLIL UNIT - German Unification

QUESTIONS:

1. How was the political situation in Germany in XIX century?
2. What was the Zollverein ? Why was it so important?
3. What were the aims of the turmoils in Germany during the 1848 revolution?
4. Why did William of Prussia refuse the crown of Emperor of Germany in 1848?
5. Who was Otto von Bismarck?
6. Regarding Bismarck's policy, explain the meaning of the expression <blood and iron>.
7. Which were the three  fundamental wars in the process of German unification?

THE AGE OF NAPOLEON :

1. QUESTIONS:
   Where was Napoleon from?
2. Describe some improvements Napoleon made in France.
3. What was the Concordat of 1801?
4. What was the Napoleonic Code?
5. What did Napoleon become on Dec 2, 1804?
6. What happened at the Battle of Leipzig?
7. Where did Napoleon meet his final defeat?
8. What was Napoleon's return to France called?