1. Outline of themes for European section Premiere 2012-2013

2. Theme 1: The Industrial Revolution 1-Defining an Industrial Revolution/ Method to comment on graphs and statistics 2-Competition in Europe 3-A source of improvements 4-Industrialisation and urbanisation 5- A large number of people were left aside Theme 2: The roaring 20’s in the USA 1-The USA played a big part in the after-war period 2-The USA was a very attractive land 3-The American consumer society 4-A time of paradox

3. Theme 3: Racial problems and civil rights 1-Segregation 2-The civil right movement 3- Some “civil right songs” Theme 4: The Depression and the New Deal 1- The cycle of depression: causes and effects 2-What did Roosevelt want to do to solve the crisis? 3- But the New Deal was heavily criticised

4. Theme 5: The aftermath of WWII 1-Enormous destructions, casualties and trial of Nazism 2-Post-war conferences and geopolitical changes 3-Consequence: the start of the Cold war Theme 6: The Cold war 1-Work on a DVD: The Berlin Wall 2-The Cuban crisis 3-The Vietnam war