1. 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
9