UNIT 6: THE AGE OF EMPIRE

1.- Background to the Age of Empire

2.- The Second Industrial Revolution
-Steel
-Electricity
- Oil
3.- The United States and the American Civil War.
- The Independence of the colonies
-The American Indian wars.
- Slavery and the American Civil War.
4.- The British Empire
- First British Empire
- Second British Empire
- Settler Colonies
- Explotative Colonies
- The case of Australia
-Case Study: The British Raj in India
5.- The build-up to the World War One
- The Tripe Alliance and the Tripe Entente
- The Sarajevo assassination
6.- World War One
-The Western front
- The Eastern front
- The end of the war
7.- Society at war
-Recruitment of tropos
- Producing military equipment
- Food shortages
8.- The origins of Modern art: Impresionism.
9.- Art Noveau, Expresionism and Cubism.