Space Race timeline

 

First Moon Landing

The Moon Landing.
      Moon landing facts.
NASA's challenge: to go to the moon.
1969 Moon Landing.
The First Person on the Moon.

First Moon Landing: NASA new video.
Man on the Moon (1969): video.

Experience the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing.

Apollo 11.
      Apollo 11 Facts.
Apollo 11: First Men on the Moon.


Biographies:
      Neil Armstrong (1930-2012): biography 1, biography 2 and biography 3.
      Edwin Buzz Aldrin (1930): biography 1, biography 2 and biography 3.
      Michael Collins (1930): biography 1, biography 2 and biography 3.

The Space Race

Space Race.
More information about the Space Race.
Another source related to the Space Race.
More about the Space Race.
Another piece of information about the Space Race.
      Space Race timeline.
                    Space Race timeline 2.

Who won the Space Race?: video.

Foreign policy under Franco

Post Civil War Spain and International Relations.

Foreign Policiy under Franco.

From the archive, 27 September 1945: President Roosevelt's letter about Franco.
The Day Eisenhower, 'Architect of Peace', visited Franco.
      Eisenhower: Exchange of letters between the President and the Chief of State, General Franco, of Spain.
Nixon: Toasts of the President and General Francisco Franco of Spain at Sate Dinner in Madrid.

Art in the Interwar Period

Avant Garde art vocabulary definition: video.

Dada or Dadaism.  Definition.
      Dada, art vocubulary definition: video.
Another piece of information about dadaism.
More information related to Dada Movement.
     Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968): biography 1, biography 2 and biography 3.

Abstract Art:
Another piece of information about abstract art.
Abstract art vocabulary definition: video.
      Wassily Kandisky (1866-1944): biography 1, biography 2 and biography 3.
            Kandisky for kids.
      Constructivism.
            Art vocubulary definition: video.
      Suprematism. More information related to suprematism.
            Kazimir Malévich (1878-1935): biography 1, biography 2 and
                  biography 3.
      Neo-Plasticism.
            Piet Mondrian (1872-1944): biography 1, biography 2 and biography 3.


Surrealism.
Another piece of information about Surrealism.
More information related to surrealism.
      Surrealist automatism. Another piece of information about surrealist automatism.
      More information related to automatism.
      Automatism, art vocabulary definition: video.
             André Masson (1896-1987): biography 1, biography 2 and biography 3.
            Joan Miró (1893-1983): biography 1, biography 2 and biography 3.
            René Magritte (1898-1967): biography 1, biography 2 and biography 3.
            Salvador Dalí (1904-1989): biography 1, biography 2 and biography 3.

New objectivity.
Another piece of information about New objectivity.
      George Grosz (1893-1959): biography 1, biography 2 and biography 3.
      Otto Dix (1891-1969): biography 1, biography 2 and biography 3.

1919, la Paz de París

El Tratado de Versalles: video.

Conferencia de París, 1919.
Más información sobre la Conferencia de París, 1919.
La Conferencia de Paz de París de 1919.
      Los 14 Puntos de Wilson. Fin de la Primera Guerra Mundial.
      Los 14 Puntos de Wilson.

La Primera Guerra Mundial: tratados de paz.

El Tratado de Versalles (1919).
Otra fuente sobre el Tratado de Versalles.
Un nuevo orden mundial.
      Condiciones y consecuencias del Tratado de Versalles.
      Cláusulas territoriales.

1919, Paris Peace Conference

End of World War I and Post War.

Paris Peace Treaty.
Paris Peace Conference, 1919: video.

The Treaty of Versailles.
      Wilson's Fourteen Points.
      Another piece of information about the Fourteen Points.
      More information related to Wilson's Fourteen Points.

Treaty of Versailles Facts.
1919, Treaty of Versailles.

Futurism

Futurism. Another piece of information about Futurism.
More information related to Futurism Art.
      Marcel Duchamp: 1912, Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2.
      Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944): short biography, biography 1 and biography 2.
      Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916): biography 1, biography 2 and biography 3.
      Giacomo Balla (1871-1958): biography 1, biography 2 and biography 3.

Metaphysical Art. More information about Metaphysical Art.
   Metaphysical painting.
          Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1878): biography 1, biography 2 and biography 3.
                The important art.

Cold War (1945-1991)

What was the Cold War?
The Cold War. More information related to the Cold War.
Another piece of information about Cold War.
Cold War (History Channel).
      The Cold War (U.S. History).


Cold War timeline 1 and timeline 2.


Arms Race. More information about Arms Race.
Arms Race (History Channel).
The Nuclear Arms Race.
The Soviet-American Arms Race.


Korean War (1950-1953). More information related to Korean War.
Another piece of information about Korean War.
Korean War.
Korean War (History Channel).

Berlin Wall. More information about the Berlin Wall.
Berlin Wall (History Channel).

Cuban Missile Crisis (1962). Another piece of information about Cuban Missile Crisis.
Cuban Missile Crisis (History Channel).

Vietman War (1954-1975). More information about the Vietnam War.
Vietnam War History (History Channel).


The end of the Cold War. Another piece of information related to the end of the Cold War.
      The collapse of communism.
      Problems facing the USSR in the 1980s.

The United Nations

The League of Nations and the United Nations.


The History of the United Nations: video.
1945. The United Nations is born.
The United Nations.


United Nations explained: video.

A brief piece of information about the United Nations.
The United Nations. More information related to the United Nations.
Explaining the United Nations to kids.


UN official website.
      History of the United Nations.


Activities:
      Quizzlet: World War II and the United Nations.

The consequences of the World War II

After the War.
World War II: After the War.
Effects of the World War II.
Consequences of the World War II.


What was the Holocaust?
The Holocaust.
      Children during the Holocaust.
      More information related to Children in the Holocaust.
      Women during the Holocaust.
      Another piece of information about Women in the Holocaust.


Japanese Internment Camps.
More information related to Japanese Internment Camps.
      Children of the Camps.


War Crimes Trials.
Another piece of information about War Crimes Trials.
      Nuremberg: Nazis On Trial.
      More information related to Nuremberg War Crime Trials.


Social impact of the World War II in Britain.


Rebuilding the world after the Second World War.

World War II (1939-1945).

World War Two timeline 1 and timeline 2.

World War II (1939-1945).
World War Two.
Another piece of information about World War Two.

The Allied Powers.
The Axis Powers.

War in Europe.
      D-Day, the invansion of Normandy.
War in the Pacific.


Women of World War II.
      American Women in World War II.
      11 Women Warriors of World War II.

African Americans in World War II.


Technology.
      Aircraft in the World War Two.


World War II (History Channel).
      WWII in HD.


Activities:
      Crossword.
      Word search.

The march toward war

Timeline of the causes of the World War II.

Causes of World War II.
World War Two: causes.
Another piece of information about the causes of the World War II.
More information related to the causes of the World War 2.
World War II; the Road to War.

The March Toward War: The March of Time as Documentary and Propaganda.


Activities:
      Quizzlet 1, quizzlet 2.

A speech against dictatorship

'The Great Dictator' (1940) speech (English subtitles): video.
The Final Speech from 'The Great Dictator'.
'The Great Dictator' (1940) quotes.

What we can learn from Charles Chaplin and 'The Great Dictator'.

The screen in reviw; 'The Great Dictador", by and with Charlie Chaplin, tragi-comic fable of unhappy lot of decent folk in a totalitarian land, at the Astor and Capitol Chaplin at the premiere (Movie Review).

Great Dictators.

The rise of totalitarianism

1919-1939 timeline.
      Totalitarianism: timeline 1 and timeline 2.

Rise of totalitarianism: video.

What are the main causes of the rise of totalitarianism in Europe?

Totalitarianism in Europe.
Totalitarianism and the Rise of the Dictators.

Fascims, Nazism and Communism.
      Italy, 1900-1939.
      Germany, 1918-1939.
      Russia, 1900-1939.


How did the rise of totalitarianism lead to WWII?

The Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression

The Wall Street Crash.
Stock Market Crash of 1929.
Wall Street Crash of 1929 and its aftermath.

The Wall Street Crash and Depression.

The Great Depession. Causes and effects: video.
The Great Depression.
      Causes of the Great Depression.
      End and legacy.
Another piece of information about the Great Depression.
More information related to the Great Depression.

Franklin D. Roosevelt: biography 1, biography 2, biography 3 and biography 4.
      First New Deal.
      Second New Deal.


Activities:
      Crossword.
      Word search.

Documentaries:
      The Wall Steet Crash: documentary.
      The Great Depression: documentary.

League of Nations

Definition and purpose.

League of Nations: video 1 and video 2.
Another piece of information about the League of Nations.
More info related to the League of Nations.

Structure of the League of Nations.

Members states of the League of Nations.

Fauvism

Fauvism: video.
       Art vocabulary definition: video.
      Another information about Fauvism.
      Fauvism facts for kids.

Henri Matisse (1869-1954: video.
      Biography 1, biography 2 and biography 3.
      Paintings. Lists of works by Henri Matisse.
            10 most famous paintings.

Dictatorship of general Primo de Rivera (1923-1930)

The Troubled Monarchy, Primo de Rivera's Dictatorship.

Primo de Rivera.
      M. Primo de Rivera: Coup and Success.
      M. Primo de Rivera: Fall.

Miguel Primo de Rivera: short biography 1 and short biography 2.

Cubism

Still Life Before an Open Window (1915), Juan Gris

Definition.
Art vocabulary definition: video.

Cubism. Another piece of information about Cubism.
More related to Cubism.
      Cubism Facts.
Cubism movement.


Biographies:

      Georges Braque: short biography, biography 1, biography 2 and biography 3.
            Georges Braque works.

      Juan Gris: short biography, biography 1, biography 2 and biography 3.
            Juan Gris, the complete works.

      Pablo Picasso: short biography, biography 1, biography 2, biography 3 and biography 4.
            Pablo Picasso - Birth: video.
            Picasso net.
            Picasso.com.
            The 10 Most Famous Pablo Picasso Artworks.