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Podpora rozvoje cizích jazyků pro Evropu 21. stol. INVESTICE DO ROZVOJE VZDĚLÁVÁNÍ. Tento projekt je spolufinancován Evropským sociálním fondem a státním rozpočtem České republiky. History of Great Britain. A Brief Summary. Stonehenge. Britain's greatest national icon constructed about
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Podpora rozvoje cizích jazyků pro Evropu 21. stol. INVESTICE DO ROZVOJE VZDĚLÁVÁNÍ Tento projekt je spolufinancován Evropským sociálním fondem a státním rozpočtem České republiky.
History of Great Britain A Brief Summary
Stonehenge • Britain's greatest national • icon • constructed about • 3,000 BC • who built Stonehenge? • original purpose is unclear (sacred site for the burial, worship) • today in ruin • Many stones have fallen or been removed for home construction or road repair
Tribes before the arrival of Normans – order them from the oldest • The Celts (Gaels, Britons) • The Danes • The Iberians • The Anglo-Saxons • The Normans • The Romans
Tribes before the arrival of Normans • The Celts (800 BC) – Britons, Geals – farming, cattle, metalworking • The Romans (43 BC) – Julies Ceasar, Hadrian´s Wall • The Anglo-Saxons (450) – King Arthur • The Danes – 800 king Afred the Great stopped them • The Normans
The Normans • 1066 William the Conqueror, battle of Hastings against Harold • John (Lackland) becomes king, 1215 Magna Carta • 1337(-1453) The Hundred Years War between England and France begins, Edward III claims the throne of France (Crécy, Calais, Poitiers )
Henry V, Joan of Arc • 1453The Hundred Years War ends. England loses all territory in France The wars of the Roses, Henry VI (Lancester) v. Edward IV (York) the result: 1485 Henry VII becomes the first Tudor king
The Tudor Period • Great voyages and discovery • Decline of feudalism • Wool and cloth trade – sheep • 1509 Henry VIII, Catherine of Aragon – divorce • 1534 Henry VIII makes himself head of the Church of England
Bloody Mary – Roman Catholic, 1553 became Queen – Roman Catholicism state religion, killed Protestants • 1558 Elizabeth I – the Golden Age, protestant, Church of England Sir Francis Drake Defeat of Spanish Armada – 1588, Spanish King Philip II William Shakespeare Convicts sent to Australia
The Stuarts • 1603 King James VI of Scotland, against Catholics and Puritans 1605 Guy Fawkes 1607 Jamestown, Protestans sailed to America in 1620 • Charles I – struggled with Parliament Civil War 1642 – Oliwer Cromwell – Parliamentary leader, Lord Protector
The Glorious Revolution • James II – restore Catholism, 1688 fled to France • Mary and William of Orange coronated king and queen Parliament – Bill of Rights – people ensured basic civil rights • Last Stuart Queen Anne, Augustan Age 1707 Act of Union – joining Scotland to England and Wales
House of Hannover • Queen Ann´s relative – German protestant King George I. – no English • George II – 13 American colonies, Canada, India • George III – the Loss of America – pay debts for the colonial wars
Wars with France • Napoleon • Admiral Nelson, Trafalgar 1805 – the statue at the Trafalgar Square • Duke of Wellington, Waterloo 1815
The Reign of Victoria • Queen at the age of 18, for 64 years, married to prince Albert • her reign is known as the Victorian era, a period of industrial, political, scientific and military progress • colonisation: Cyprus, Gibraltar, Cape of Good Hope, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia • Famine in Ireland • Charles Darwin – Origin of Species • London Underground • Boer Wars in South Africa • Literature: Jane Austen, Sisters Bronte, Byron, Shelley, Keats
The industrial Revolution • 18th - 19th C • changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, and transport • effect on the social, economic and cultural conditions - farm labourers moved to town to find job, working conditions 16-18 hours • Luddites – destroyed machines • trade unionism – protecting working class • every aspect of daily life was eventually influenced • mechanisation of industries, improved roads and railways • scientific revolution - the steam engine
World War I • George V • great powers of Europe split • into two camps: 1. Germany, Austria, Italy 2. France, Russia, Britain, USA • Britain joined when Germany declared war on Belgium • the terms of peacedictated at the Treaty of Versailles1919 • The Remembrance Day
World War II • 1938 Prime Minister Chamberlain signed a pact with Hitler in Munich allowing Germany to have Sudetenland • 1939 – German troops invaded Poland • Britain and France declared war on Germany • 1940 Winston Churchil becomes Prime Minister • air raids, children evacuated from cities • Britain asylum for Czechs, • Polish, anti-Nazi Germans • Ireland refused to join • Support form the USA • Invasion of Normandy • the Yalta Conference
Battle of Britain • a famous speech given by Churchil: the battle of France is over. I expect the battle of Britain is about to begin • Many Czech pilots escaped to Poland, France and later Britain • they joined the Royal Air Force - Czechoslovak army in exile on the British islands, Czech fighter ace Josef František
Elisabeth II • 1952 after the death of her father King George VI (the House of Windsor) • married Prince Phillip, four children: Charles, Anne, Andrew and Edward • Prince Charles and Lady Diana
Iraq War • 2003, invasion of Iraq by United States and United Kingdom troops • Tony Blair, the former Prime Minister was criticised for joining the USA
Gordon Brown • Prime Minister since June 2007 • Labour Party
INVESTICE DO ROZVOJE VZDĚLÁVÁNÍ Tato výuková prezentace byla pořízena z finančních prostředků hrazených Evropským sociálním fondem a rozpočtem České republiky. Tento projekt je spolufinancován Evropským sociálním fondem a státním rozpočtem České republiky.