L4ACR1_E_ Barcelona_1951
Look carefully at Sources A, B and C and answer the following questions:
Source A:
Barcelona 1951, tram strike.
Image: Barcelona 1951. Tram's strike |
Source B:
Income per person 1913-1960
Country | 1913 | 1929 | 1950 | 1960 |
Europe Occidental | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
Germany | 112 | 115 | 107 | 132 |
France | 97 | 113 | 114 | 111 |
Great Britain |
154 | 148 | 151 | 131 |
Portugal | 48 | 47 | 41 | 41 |
Spain | 58 | 66 | 46 | 47 |
Italy | 66 | 68 | 65 | 73 |
Source: J. Catalán: La economía española y la segunda Guerra mundial. Editorial Ariel. Barcelona 1995 |
Source C:
Barcelona 1951 black market.
Black market. Barcelona 1951 |
- Source B:
What kind of source is source B?
(classify and justify your answer) - Source A: (2 points)
What is the historical context of source A?
What happened in Spain and Barcelona? - Look at Source C: (2 points)
What kind of economical policy did the government opt for?
Which were the consequences of that policy? And who benefited from it ?
- Look at Source B: (2 points)
compare the income per person in Spain, France, Germany and explain: what did it happen and why?
( remember: Spain didn't take part in the Second World War/Pla Marshall) - Isolation policies: (2 points)
What do you think about the economical or political isolation of one country -such as democratic countries did with Spain those years-?
Do you think this policy worked? who paid that policy (social class)?
(Explain what happened and justify your point of view, have a look at source C)
You can use this frame to answer the questions.
Structure | Useful starters | Useful vocabulary |
Source |
It is perfectly clear that you can see... As you can see… This source is a... In other words... |
Primary /secondary source / textual/ iconographical/ cartographical/ statistical/political /public/ private/ |
Context |
It refers to… The impact of... The United Nations The Marshall Plan... The context of 1951...
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Before/After the ... Spanish Civil War/Second World War. Spanish society, francoism, totalitarian. Parliamentary democracy. serious strikes, boycotts, |
Sentences and Concepts |
The fascist regime... To invest.. to/ more in (education, transport..) The kind of policy... These policies produced The system of taxation... The response to... was to blame... The authorities were incapable of handling To re-establish internal and external... The foreign policy was oriented to.. The Unites States launched.. This alone explains/ doesn't explain.... The income per person in ... was lower/ The percentage of the population living below the breadline |
fascist, dictatorial, dictatorship, neutrality, Axis international, condemnation, financial Aid, Marshall plan, democratic regime, repressions. external forces. Marxist conspiracy, Jewish, Freemasonry, autarchy, material destruction, inflation, self-sufficiency industrial recovery, basic infrastructures, factories, fields, corruption, inefficient, intervention, control, parallel economy. free market, private enterprise, incomes low wages, nutritional levels, rural exodus, rural immigrants commercial relations, business contacts |
To improve your Knowledge:
- Catalana and English study resources L4.
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- Dictionary
- Linguee- link-
- Film: "Pa negre" (link) (one of the best films to understand this time)
- Barcelona 1962- Creix-
- Music: international context: (link) Listen to a clip of "Strange Fruit" sung by Billie Holiday.