30th of April (Thursday)

Hello to everyone!!

Today in Social Sciences....

José Mari has told to us that today is the day when Hittler and his wife committed suicide. So, Paqui has explained why they committed suicide. She has also told us that Hittler's craneum is in a warehouse.

After that, Jose Mari has wanted to sing the "Mayos" a Spanish typical song to Paqui.

Paqui has recommended to see a film called Der Untergang, it's a film about Hittler and the Second War World.

Later, Paqui has asked to us: Why did Germans finally surrender? But we didn't know it, so, Paqui has expalined that:

• Their enemies had more power than them.
• Their allies surrendered.
• Their fear for a Revolution.

For all this problems they surrendered and they signed the armistice in the Campiègne Forest, a train wagon, at Rethondes, on 5h 11th of November; but the official ending was at 11h on 11th of November.

With this information, Paqui has remembered that in 1940, Hittler invaded France and he looked for the wagon for a revenge of Germany to France. So Campiègne Forest was used for two different armistices.

Also, Paqui has explained why the republic was proclaimed on Germany on the 9th of November: the government was afraid of a Communist revolution, similar to the one happened in Russia and that’s why they decided to surrender. The Kaiser fled to Holland and the Republic was proclaimed. The army said that the politicians had given a stab in the back to them so they did the same and a communist revolution started.

Paqui has told us the the end and punishment of the WW1 were the causes of the WW2.

At the same time.... a chair has fallen down. All the memories of the falls of the members of the class have appeared in a second.

After this we have come back to the WW1, in the Conference of Paris the losers were not allowed to attend to this conference.

This is all we have done in the lesson of Social Sciences.

And for homework we have to do a scheme about the Conference of Paris and the consequences of the WW1.

But before the class has finished, we have set the date of the exam.... on 14th of May. The exam include a lot of contents : Age of Empires, Goya and the WW1.

Happy long weekend!!!

Thursday, 30th April, 2015

Hello everybody!!
Today in Social Sciences we have learnt a lot. Our today's lesson has been at the first period.
When I have arrived the class, Paqui and Alfredo were talking about a photography competition that Alfredo has won, so congratulations!!! Then, when all the people have arrived, the lesson has started.
First we have done a scheme of the Conference of Paris. We have written the participants (32 States), the features (the defeated countries were not allowed to attend. USA president Wilson's Fourteen Point Plan was the basic document to decide, but it wasn't implemented in the same way in Europe and in the Ottoman Empire. And the winners took revenge on the defeated countries) and the main decisions (that included the Treaty of Versailles, other treaties and the creation of the League of Nations).
While we were copying the scheme, Paqui has told us other treaties:
- Saint Germain: with Austria.
- Neuilly: with Bulgaria.
- Sèvres: with Turkey.
Then, Paqui has continued explaining the Treaty of Versailles. And Paqui has explained the losses of Germany. Here you can see the map in which are reflected the losses of Germany and also the free cities (Danzig and Memel).

The losses of Germany were a big cause of the World War 2.

Then the teacher has talked us about the Mandates of the League of Nations (1st map) and about Europe after the World War 1 (2nd map).

Paqui has explained us the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (that gave birth to the creation of the States of Austria and Hungary) and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (that was respected by Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in order to avoid the extension of the Russian Revolution).

Then she has explained the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire:

At first, all these territories belonged to the Ottoman Empire, but later, Turkey was declared as a country and then it was declared as a republic, the Republic of Turkey. The rest of the territories were organized in this way:

- Lebanon and Syria: were mandates of France.

- Palestine, Transjordan and Iraq: were mandates of Great Britain.

The words we have copied today in our glossary are:

- Vanquished/loser: perdedor

- To attend: asistir

- To implement: llevar a cabo

- League of Nations: Sociedad de Naciones

- Unanimous decision: decisiones por unanimidad

- Blue Helmets: cascos azules (UN)

- To disband: desmantelar

- Latvia: Letonia

I hope you have a good long-weekend, enjoy it, bye!!

Sources of the photos: presentation.

Tuesday, 28th of April, 2015

Hello everybody!


Today in the class of social sciences teacher Paqui has explained us about the projects that we have to do for last week and then we have corrected the scheme for today which is about the different stages of the first world war. It has four stages:


-1st stage: War of movement: The armies moved towards the enemy. In the western front, the German armies attacked France through Belgium And Luxembourg and arrived 40 km close to Paris. But the French and the British armies could stop the Germans at the BAttle of Marne.


-2nd stage War of attrition: In the western front the armies dug trenches from the North Sea to Switzerland and the front changed little until 1918. A few meters caused a lot of deaths and war became a torture for the soldiers.
New countries joined: Italy joined France and Great Britain. Bulgaria and the ottoman empire joined Austria-Hungary and Germany ( the central powers) A new front opened in the Balkans. The Central powers occupied Serbia and Romania. The British attacked the Ottoman Empire from Egypt and occupied Palestine, but they were defeated at Gallipoli.

-3rd stage 1917 crisis: This was the critical year for all the belligerents: soldiers' mutinies in all the fronts, the Eastern Rising in Ireland and a revolution in Russia. When the Bolsheviks tood power in óctober, They signed an agreement with Germany to stop fighting.
In the Ottoman Empire The Arab tribes revolted against the turks and the Bristish got a lot of territory Lawrence of Arabia had an important role in this uprising. The Usa Joined the war because the German naval damaged trade and the German submarines sunk the Lusitania.

Sunk of the Lusitania.

Source:http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundimiento_del_RMS_Lusitania

In this moment the bell has rung and we haven't had time to correct the last stage, the end of the war.

We have also copied some new words in the glossary:
- Optimistic: optimista
- Central powers: poderes centrales
- To dig: cavar
- Trench: trinchera
- Trenches warfare: guerra de trincheras
- Hand to hand combat: combate cuerpo a cuerpo
- Sniper: francotirador
- Lause/lice: piojos
- Slaughter: carnicería
- Easter Rising: levantamiento de Pascua
- Sinking: hundimiento
- Ocean liner: transatlántico

This is all!


See you tomorrow

Tuesday, 28th of April

Hello everybody! I'm Minerva and today it's my turn to write the journal.

At first, Paqui has given us two comics about the World War 1. ¡Puta Guerra! was the first and the second was La Guerra de las Trincheras. While we were seeing the comics, Paqui has reviewed what we studied the last day: the 3rd Stage of the World War 1 called Crisis of the 1917.

 

Image of the comic ¡Puta Guerra!

Source: http://elcorso.es/puta-guerra-jacques-tardi-y-la-memoria-de-la-tragedia/ 

La Guerra de las Trincheras 

Source: https://pitbox.wordpress.com/2010/03/07/descargar-la-guerra-en-las-trincheras-jacques-tardi/

Then, we have talked about the 4th Stage: The End of the War (1918).
The end of the war was due to two decisive facts. The first one was the arrival of refreshment troops of the U.S.A; and the second one was the Brest-Litovsk Treaty which was signed between Russia and Germany. The Russians stopped fighting and there were no more battles in the Eastern front. Russia lost Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine.

As Russia stopped fighting, the Germans could focus on the Western front and launched two offensives that were stopped. Revolts in the German army and protests against in the government started in Germany.
In the Eastern front, Bulgaria surrendered in September and the Ottoman Empire in October. The Austro-Hungarian army collapsed in the North of Italy and the Balkans.
As protests increased in Germany, the German government tried to negotiate peace. Kaiser Wilhem II abdicated and the republic was proclaimed. The armistice was signed at the Forest of Compiègne, at a train wagon.

 Armistice of the 11th of November, 1918

Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armistice_of_11_November_1918

Paqui has explained us that the surrender left bad feelings to the Germans and this would be one of the causes of the World War 2.

We've also talked about Hitler. He was born in Austria and he wanted to study arts. He went to Vienna to try to go into the art school but as he wasn't so good, the school didn't accept him. After being a wanderer, he was conscripted to go to the World War 1.
When he came back, he was promoted to corporal and hired to spy on the DAP, that was an extreme-right political party. But as he liked the ideas of this party, he go into it and later, he became its leader.
As a leader, he planned a coup d'état but it failed and he was sent to jail. Afterwards the party became so important, the President of the Republic was convinced to convert Hitler in prime minister and from this moment he started changing the laws.

Adolf Hitler at Bayernwald WW1

Source:https://www.flickr.com/photos/velton/4550125371/

 Adolf Hitler at the WW1.

Source: http://www.greatwar.nl/frames/default-hitlere.html

After talking about Hitler, we've talked about the hyperinflation which was produced in Germany due to the money they had to pay because of all the problems they caused. Paqui has told us that Germany stopped paying the World War 1 reparations in 2010.
We've seen images about this event: the children were playing with the money, they were making kites of money and decorating their walls with money because as they produced a lot of money, money didn't have any value.
Prices increased a lot and people were shopping with trolleys full of money.

A man decorating his wall with money

Source: http://datosfreak.org/tag/Alemania/

To end with the class, Paqui has given us some homework: we had to do summaries of the Conference of Paris and the Treaty of Versailles.

As always, we've written down some new words:

- To come into force: entrar en vigor.
- Stab in the back: puñalada por la espalda.
- To betray: traicionar.
- Corporal: cabo.
- Anger: ira, enfado.
- Spike: pincho.
- Kurds: Kurdos.

And that's all for today, see you on Thursday! 

Monday, 27th of April

Hello everybody!  I 'm Clara Inés and this is my third journal of the year. 

Today in Social Sciences we have done a lot of things.

At first Paqui has come to our class later because she has been with the 3rd ESO students visiting a beer factory.


Then we started the lesson, but at first all the people have started to ask  Paqui about the projects that we made and then Victor has come to class. After all these interruptions we have finally started with the scheme of the different stages of World War 1.

In the 1st stage: War of movement (1914): the armies moved towards the enemy. Fight developed in two fronts. In the Western front the Germans attacked France through Luxembourg and Belgium (Schlieffen Plan, to take Paris: the Germans planned a short fight against France to focus in the Eastern front against Russia. This failed and they had to fight almost alone in two fronts). After the battle of Marne, the French stopped the German advance. In the Eastern Front the Russians advanced through Eastern Prussia and Galitzia. The Germans stopped them after the Battles of the Masurian Lakes and Tannenberg. 
At the end of 1914 Japan joined the Triple Entente and the Ottoman Empire joined the Central Powers. The Japanese occupied Tsingtao and they didn't do much more during the rest of the war.

 

                        Source: http://historoda.com/2013/04/13/wwi-europe-plunges-into-war/                          

In the 2nd stage: War of attrition (1915-1916): The war fronts stabilized and didn't move since the end of 1914. Soldiers dug kilometres of trenches and tried to keep their positions. Bulgaria joined the Central Powers and Italy and Romania the Triple Entente. In the Western front the Germansattacked in Verdun and the French reacted at the Somme. The front didn't move, but there were around two million victims. In the Eastern front a big German offensive to the East took place and Russians had to retire back.
A third front opened in the Balkans: the Central Powers occupied Serbia and Romania. The British attacked the Ottoman Empire from Egypt and occupied Palestine, but they were defeated at Gallipoli.
Also Paqui  has done a scheme on the blackboard to explain all this.

 

Source: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3611617,00.html

In the 3rd stage: crisis of 1917: There were internal problems in all the belligerent countries: soldiers' mutinies in all fronts, nationalist protests in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Easter Rising in Ireland and a revolution in Russia: the Bolsheviks took power in October 1917 and decided to sign an agreement with the Germans to take Russia out of the war Brest-Litovsk Treaty

                     Source:http://io9.com/5960510/thousands-of-australian-students-are-taught-that-robots-                                                              led-the-russian-revolution

We have also added some new words to our glossary:

To exhaust-agotar

Slaughter – carnicería

To instill- inocular, inculcar

To withdraw- retirarse

Rising – levantamiento

Easter Rising – levantamiento de Pascua

Finally the bell has rung, and we couldn’t finish with the 4th stage, but we will finish that the next day. And we have gone to another class.

And a video for review all that we learned.

Bye!!

Friday, 24th April of 2015

Hello everybody!

Today in the class of Social Sciences we have corrected the scheme of the features of Schlieffen Plan (1905):

- New and deadlier armament.

- Civil population became war target.

- War economy.

- Governments of national unity.

- Constant use of propaganda.

Then Paqui has read an example of a letter, from a military how they spent the days there. After this she has putted a scheme in the blackboard of the World War 1 (1914-1918), to development them.

- War of Movemen (1914)

- War of Attrition (1915-1916)

- 1917 Crisis

- End of the War (1918)

Finaly of the class, we have copied from the blackboard the glossary of today: 

leaflet - folleto

pamphlet - panfleto

loaf - rebanada

allowance - prestación, beneficio, dieta

war bonds - bonos de guerra

war of movement - guerra de movimientos

cliché - tópico

war of attrition -  guerra de desgaste

trenches warfare - guerra de trincheras

trench - trinchera

Eastern front - frente oriental

Western front - frente occidental

to dig - cavar

Here you have a video of the World War One:

Goodbye boys and girls!

Thursday, 23th April 2015

Hello!
Today we've had a talk about the World War 1.
We have first gone to the assembly hall and given her our projects. I've liked this project even if it's a little bit long, I've enjoyed a lot doing it and I've learnt a lot. But then we've moved to the Social Sciences classroom. María and me have gone to look for Manuel but we haven't found him. Secondly, when we were in the Social Sciences Room, the talk has started. Paqui has spoken us about the World War 1, as I've said before,  not about the history or the battles but about novels and comics that reflex information that we didn't know about the World War 1. She has given us different letters from soldiers of the WW1 and we have commented on them . Mine talks about a British soldier who writes to his girlfriend or wife and he tells how bad the life is there. I think that with this letters, we can almost feel what they felt, it's very emotional.

Source: http://www.sinembargo.mx/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/private-harry-lewis-lincoln-26-1st-bedfordshire-regiment.jpg

Paqui has recommended us some novels, the main one was "The Fear", which I would like to read if I find the book somewhere.

Source: https://jackmoreno.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/el-miedo.jpg?w=625

And she has also shown us two comics about this War but I haven't had time enough to see them. I'd like to read also "¡Puta Guerra!". 

She has told us some facts such as starting the WW1, people went there happy. I knew this because yesterday I've started watching a film Paqui has recommended us to see: Feliz Navidad. I haven't finished it yet because it was late and I fell asleep, but I'm going to finish it today. I've seen the children in schools learning to hate the others, how happythey were about the WW1 because they were bored, how the brother dies just at arriving at the war, how they become friends for just Christmas Night, I've learnt that the Scottish supported the British and the French and the Germans, the artist boy singing and declaring peace or something like this, the blonde girl singing... I'll continue watching the film soon.

I think WW1 is a very interesting event in history. In my opinion, it was amazing. 

Finally, we've listened to a song sung in French that they composed in the WW1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iGEiY6wvDo

I've found this video which summarizes the WW1 in 6 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3UjJ5kxiLI

I let you an interactive game to improve your knowledge about the WW1. It's simple and interesting, you have to choose one period and place it in its chronological place: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/worldwarone/hq/worldwarwhen.shtml

If you fail it gives you three clues. When you complete it, you receive a certificate. I've got a DONKEY, what about you?

JOURNAL THURDAY 23 OF APRIL 2015

Hello everybody! Today in class of Social Science We have to gave to the teacher Paqui our Project of diferents styles of art of the 18 and 19th century.

Then the teacher have talked abaut the 1st world war  to our class and other class . Today she has explained it in spanish.

First Paqui has spoke abaut some comics about the 1st world war:

First comics she has showed to us the war of the trench , war, the great war

All this comics abaut soldiers in the front of the war, their fellings their experience and his thougths. They have been to  impressive.

Then Paqui showed to us another book like : bye to the weapones, paths of the glory and this last book I find a trailer in youtube:

For last Paqui has showed a book call the scared and she has read some impressive parts of the book.

 And for last some links of the books if your are interesting in one of them:

puta guerra: http://www.hislibris.com/%C2%A1puta-guerra-1914-1919-tardi-y-verney/

el miedo:http://melibro.com/el-miedo-de-gabriel-chevalier/

la guerra de las trincheras:http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_guerra_de_las_trincheras

And thats all, have a nice day!

Tuesday, 21st of April 2015

Hello there!

Today we have spoken about the different stages of the WW1, from the beggining to the end with a armistice on the 11/11/1918 at 11am o'clock, but really it ended at 5pm because the news about the armistice were late.

After that Marta has asked Paqui how many people died during this war, the number is horrifying, twenty million people died there.

Then we have reviewed the letters from soldiers that Paqui gave us yesterday. I think they are amazing because you can know how they felt there.

The first truce is about a truce which happened on the Christmas Day. The soldiers realized that the war mad no sense because nobody wanted to fight there. The shook their hands and had some time together. We have seen a commercial from Sainsbury about this:

There is also a film about this, called Merry Christmas. Here you have the trailer:

Then we have spoken about the second letter, which was written on Valentine's Day. It described how was the environment there; the smells, the noises, the parasytes that were there, rats...

Soldiers with dead rats during WW1
Source: http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/71846000/jpg/_71846607_1326440_topfoto_rats.jpg

The bell has rung and we haven't continued.

Here you have today's glossary:

- War of movement: guerra de movimiento

- War of attrition: guerra de desgaste

- Trenches warfare: guerra de trincheras

- To dig: cavar

- Armistice: armisticio

- Swine: cerdo

- Shave: afeitar

- Razor: maquinilla de afeitar

21th of April of 2015

Hello everybody!
Today in Social sciences we have learned about a lot of things.
At the beginning of the class, we have reviewed the travel journal and we have asked our questions to Paqui. Camila have showed me her notebook and I think is so cool. Afterwards we have started with the theorical part of the lesson. We are studying the World War I. Paqui has copied a text about the Schlieffen plan(1905). I knew before what is because i saw a rap on the blog that talk about that. This plan was very optimistic, all plans in general in the World War I, and this is terrible because it caused a big problem. Also we have studied the new weapons and the affected countries, At the end of the class, Paqui has answered to a question that has asked, and it was about Spain in the World War I. During the class we have copied some words on the glossary.
Stamp: Sello
Wax seal: sello de lacre
Wax: Cera
To launch: Lanzar
Supplier: Proveedor
Grave: Tumba
Crippled: Mutilado
Aircraft: Aviación
Airship: Dirigible
Machine gun: Ametralladora
Poison gas: Gas tóxico
Railway gun: Cañón de largo alcance
War target: Objetivo/blanco de guerra
Food rationing: Racionamiento
Ration card: cartilla de racionamiento
At rearguard: en retaguardia

Monday, 20th of April 2015.

Hello everybody!

Today in our Social Sciences lesson, Paqui hasn't come to the class because she was in Madrid on a trip with some students of the high school but she left a sheet of paper with the homework for the on duty teachers we have to do during the lesson.

First the duty teacher who in this case it was Mª Ángeles López, a music teacher, has given us a sheet of paper about the letters of the World War 1 and she has said that we have to look up for the new vocabulary and explain what they tell about WW1.

The fist letter is addressed from a son to a mother and the second letter is addressed from a man to his wife and in both of them the person who write explain the difficulties of every day and the absence of their family.

Finally, for homework the on duty teacher has said us that we have to finish this at home and take it the next day. That's all for today. Bye!

A photo of the sheet about the letters.

Friday 17th April 2015

Hello everybody!

Today in the class of social sciences the teacher paqui has given the make up exams to the people that had failed the term (only to Gustavo, because José and Lucía were absent today).
Then Paqui has explained the pre-bellic crises of the WW1 and she has given us a scheme to complete in the class. They are the following:
-Two crises in Morocco, which increased tension between France and Germany.

• 1905-1906: it ended with the establishement of a French-Spanish protectorate in Morocco.
• 1911: Germany received part of the French congo and accepted the French protectorate in Morocco.

-Two crises in the Balkans, which increased tension between Austria-Hungary and Russia:

• 1908: Bosnia-Herzegovina was annexed by Austria-Hungary.
• 1912-1913: Balkan wars: Serbia, Montenegro, Greece and Bulgary fought against the Ottoman Empire. Later they fought among themselves to increase their territory.

After that, she had introduced the trigger for the war and the outbreak of the WW1, but we haven't copied any scheme of this. 

Then we have copied some words on the glossary like: 

trigger: gatillo, detonante

gunboat: acorazado

requirement: requisito

to back: respaldar

to plot: conspirar

Today's class has been shorter because of the healthy breakfast, so we have finished the lesson at 10:40 instead of 10:55.

Source: http://apwh.pbworks.com/w/page/7624357/Balkan%20Wars

Bye!

Thursday, 16th of April, 2015

Hello classmates!

I'm Fran, and I'm going to told you about our last lesson. Today's lesson has been at the
1st period of the day. Today our classmates Marta and Silvia had done the make up exam of the 2nd term, I hope they pass the exam with a good mark.
The rest of the class has continued with the World War I, the first thing that we had done, has been the correct the exercises that we had for today's lesson: We had to make  2 exercises from Monday, and one scheme from Tuesday.
The first exercise was related with the outbreak during the World Wor I, and this exercise has been corrected by Nuria, and the correction of this exercise is:

-28th of July: Austria-Hungary declared war to Serbia.
-30th of July: Russia mobilized its trops against Austria-Hungary.
-1st of August: Germany declared war to Russia and to France on the 3rd of August. On the 4th of August Germany invaded Belgium (Schieffen-Plan) to occupy France. The United Kingdom declared war to Germany when Belgium was invaded.
Only Italy kept out of war.

Related to that Paqui has explained the outbreaks of this war on the blackboard with drawings, and later has explained us the Schieffen-Plan, and it consisted in:
Germany war plan Minister who prepared Germany's war plan in 1905: simultaneous attack on 2 fronts:Russia and France through Belgium.
The plan failed because France wasn't defeated in 5 weeks and the fronts establized in the East and North.

Later Azahara has corrected the other exercise, which consisted to correct the features of the World War I, the correction is:

-New and deadlier armament.
-Civil populution became war target.
-War economy.
-Governments of national unity.
-Constant use of propaganda.




After this correction Paqui has told us about Bertrand Russel who was a matematician who fought against the war in the UK, but later he was sent to prison.
Also Paqui has told us about a comic called "Puta Guerra" who explained the World War from the point of view of a friend who was a soldier.
At the end of the comic, there are images of crippled people.

Also she has showed us images from propaganda from the war.

Later Paqui to end with the has showed us a video which is on the blog, which explain the World War I.

https://youtu.be/Nj43X-VBEPE

As in all the classes there were new words for our glossary:

-Trigger: Detonante, gatillo (gun).
-Impruded: Imprudente.
-Schieffen-Plan: Plan de Schieffen.
-Eastern front: Frente oriental.
-Western front: Frente occidental.
-Censorship:Censura.
-To Censor: Censurar.
-Ration Card: Cartilla de Racionamiento.
-Food Rationing: Racionamiento de alimento.
                                                        -Rearguard: Retaguardia.
                                                        -Crippled: Mutilado.
                                                        -Threat: Amenaza.
                                                        -Strike: Huelga.
                                                        -To apply: Echar un curriculum.

16 th April 2015 ( thursday)

Hello I am José Luis and this is my journal:

Today the class started at third period. Today was the make up  exam , this exam has been taken by  Gustavo , José and Lucía. I think thtat all are going to pass the exam.

During the class the others students have had class and Paqui has explained the causes of WW1 there are 5 causes:

- Rialry between colonial powers
- Confrontation between different Europeans countries
- Exacerbation of nationalism
- Millitary alliances
- Arms race

During  the explanation of this content, I have asked a question to Paqui about the project, Paqui has explained how to do the project.
Antonio has showed a part of his project  and Paqui has answered that it is good but we only have one week left to finish the project.

And after this Paqui has  finished the explanation.
During the class Paqui has written different words on the blackboard ( glossary ):

To be aware of  ser consciente de
To be willing to estar ansioso por
Arms race          carrera de armamentos
Armed peace     paz armada
Contempt          desprecio
To censor        censurar
Censorship     censura
Muting           motín

       

            http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-one/10561430/Government-accused-of-social-                                         engineering-over-WW1-plans.html

bye!!

Tuesday, 14th of April, 2015

Hello everybody!

I'm Azahara and today it's my turn to write the journal. Today has been a different day, because Paqui hasn't come to the high school, she has gone on a trip to Toledo. Today I couldn't go to class, but my classmates have told me that they have stayed in the class with the teacher Antonio Garrido, and they have started doing the scheme of the different stages of World War 1.

World War 1 was divided into 4 stages:

• 1st stage: War of movement (1914): the armies moved towards the enemy. Fight developed in two fronts. In the Western front the Germans attacked France through Luxembourg and Belgium (Schlieffen Plan, to take Paris: the Germans planned a short fight against France to focus in the Eastern front against Russia. This failed and they had to fight almost alone in two fronts). After the battle of Marne, the French stopped the German advance. In the Eastern Front the Russians advanced through Eastern Prussia and Galitzia. The Germans stopped them after the Battles of the Masurian Lakes and Tannenberg. 

At the end of 1914 Japan joined the Triple Entente and the Ottoman Empire joined the Central Powers. The Japanese occupied Tsingtao and they didn't do much more during the rest of the war.

    Situation at the 1st stage of WW1.

Source: http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-maps/world-war-i-map-of-europe.html

• 2nd stage: War of attrition (1915-1916): The war fronts stabilized and didn't move since the end of 1914. Soldiers dug kilometres of trenches and tried to keep their positions. Bulgaria joined the Central Powers and Italy and Romania the Triple Entente. In the Western front the German attacked in Verdun and the French reacted at the Somme. The front didn't move, but there were around two million victims. In the Easternt front a big German offensive to the East took place and the Russiand had to retire back.

 A third front opened in the Balkans: the Central Powers occupied Serbia and Romania. The British attacked the Ottoman Empire from Egypt and occupied Palestine, but they were defeated at Gallipoli.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Passchendaele

• 3rd stage: crisis of 1917. There were internal problems in all the belligerent countries: soldiers' mutinies in all fronts, nationalist protests in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Easter Rising in Ireland and a revolution in Rusia: the Bolsheviks took power in October 1917 and decided to sign an agreement with the Germans to take Russia out of the war. In the Middle East, the Arab tribes revolted against the Turks and the British got a lot of territory. The USA and Greece joined the Triple Entente. 

STORMING OF THE WINTER PALACE (Saint Petesbourg)

Source: http://io9.com/5960510/thousands-of-australian-students-are-taught-that-robots-led-the-russian-revolution

• 4th stage: end of the war (1918): two decisive facts took place:

                a) Arrival of refreshment troops from the USA.

                b) Brest-Litovsk Treaty, signed between Russia and Germany. Russia lost Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine.

The Germans could focus on the Western front and launched two offensives: 1st at the Somme and 2nd at the Mame. Revolts in the German army and protests against the government started in Germany. In the Eastern fron Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire surrendered. The Austro-Hungarian army collapsed in the North of Italy and the Balkans. Protests increased in Germany and Kaiser Whilem II abdicated . The republic was proclaimed and the armistice was signed at Rethondes.

Source: http://app.emaze.com/@AORQCOTZ/ww1-progressive---darrius-joseph