PHOTOCOPIABLE RESOURCE © Oxford University Press España, S.A. History ESO 4

TEST

Assessment

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Year and group Date Grade _

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Define the following terms:

a) Wall Street Crash

b) New Deal

c) Stalinism

d) Nazis

e) Popular Front

f) Surrealism.

Put the events related to the Great

Depression in chronological order.

a) Investors panicked and tried to

sell all of their shares.

b) Many countries adopted

protectionist measures.

c) The New York stock market

crashed.

d) Overproduction caused

companies to go bankrupt.

e) The effects of the crash spread

to Europe.

f) Unemployment rose and

consumption fell.

Write a short essay about the main

features of authoritarian and

totalitarian regimes.

Read the text and then answer the

questions below.

The ladies had cut their hair like men,

had stopped using corsets and were

smoking… The gentlemen were

amazed by the invention of the car…

and cars were selling even though they

cost a small fortune.

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Areté (Translated and adapted)

a) Which decade does the text

describe?

b) What changes in social habits

are mentioned in the text?

c) What were the characteristics of

the economy during this decade?

How did this affect society?

Complete the table below.

SPAIN 1923–1939

Dictatorship

Dates:

Dictator:

Domestic policy:

Foreign policy:

Opposition:

Republic

Dates:

President:

Constitution:

Periods:

Civil War

Dates:

Event which triggered the war:

Causes:

Sides:

Victor:

1

2

3

4

5

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