The document discusses the history of conflict and cooperation in Europe. It describes the alliances that consolidated in the late 19th century and led to rising tensions. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 triggered World War I. In the aftermath, efforts were made to prevent future wars and foster cooperation, such as the Schuman Declaration of 1950 which laid the foundations for the modern European Union. Half a century of peace and prosperity followed, though the costs of World War I were immense, with millions of casualties across Europe.

2. Confronting Europe
Two great antagonistic blocs are
consolidated in Europe in the late
nineteenth century. For one, the Triple
Entente, including France, UK and
Russia. Furthermore, the Triple Alliance
with Germany, Austria-Hungary and
Italy.
The desire of the imperialist
countries, nationalist and patriotic
exaltation and promoting the desire to
maintain and extend political and
economic weight itself represents these
alliances look askance and prepare for
war.
It is the time of armed peace.
Europe spends on armaments and
numerous resources, however, there is
a war, but you begin to see as
imminent.

3. European Unión
Nowadays, the European Union has
28 Member States and one of its main
objectives is to promote human rights
inside and around the world.
Human dignity, freedom, democracy,
equality, rule of law and respect for
human rights are fundamental values.
The EU institutions are legally
bound to defend, like national
governments when they implement EU
law.
The European Union has made
possible half a century of peace,
stability and prosperity.

4. A fateful day
28th June, 1914. Archduke Franz
Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-
Hungary, and his wife Sophie are
assassinated in Sarajevo by Bosnian
Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip.
A diplomatic crisis and Austria-
Hungary gives an ultimatum to the
Kingdom of Serbia breaks. Begin
demonstrations and various
international partnerships forged over
the decades are invoked. Within weeks,
all the major European powers at war
and conflict spreads throughout the
world

5. A date for hope
On 9th May, 1950, French Foreign
Minister, Robert Schuman, proposed in
Paris a new form of political
cooperation in Europe to do unthinkable
a new war between European nations.
The creation of a European Coal and
Steel whose members would share the
production of coal and steel is
proposed.
The "Declaration of Shuman" is
considered the beginning of what is
now the European Union. Each 9th
May, Europe Day, peace and unity of
the continent is celebrated.

6. Europe of enemies
A process that inevitably leads to
war is triggered. The advertisement of
the moment calls to the defense of the
homeland front of an enemy that
threats the same civlisation.
From the government is requested
to all sectors to aside differences and
unite behind the higher national
interests.
The press also plays an important
role in this process exaggerating the
qualities of the nation and ridiculing or
decreasing foreign people. of the British
Secretary at the time for the war,

7. United in diversity"
" United in diversity" is the
motto of the European Union.
It signifies how Europeans
have come together, in the form of the
EU, to work for peace and prosperity,
while at the same time being enriched
by the continent's many different
cultures, traditions and languages.

8. Europe calls to the war
The warlike cartels of the I World
War present the conflict as a crusade.
There were cartels of recruitment,
cartels that were requesting economic
support (bonds of war), and cartels that
were spreading the atrocities of the war,
in which each side presented the other
as a villain.
Example of a cartel of recruitment
was “Lord Kitchener Wants You” by
Alfred Leete (1914). It is a succinct and
direct cartel, in which there are
perceived the eyes and the gesture of
the British Secretary at the time for the
war,

9. Europe calls for the polls
"
Around 400 million people will be
called to the polls across Europe,
among themselves 36 million Spanish,
to choose the members of the
European Parliament.
The European elections, from 22nd
to 25th May 2014, will enable the
citizens of Europe to decide the political
direction of the EU for the next five
years.
The resulting European Parliament
will determine, for the first time in the
history of the EU, who will be the next
president of the Commission, the
executive councile of the Union.

10. Enthusiasm for war
Youth received with enthusiasm that
„liberating war‟ that would put an end to
all the wars. Many lived worried thinking
about that the war would put an end
before they even could participate in it;
the thoughts were that it was going to
be short/brief (usa el que quieras).
After the declaration of war, a lot of
different and massive demonstrations
of patriotic exaltation were seen in
Berlin, Wien, Paris, and the „British-
Youth‟ turned to join the army.
The demonstrations were on the street,
flaming the flags, cheering the recruits
that marched with the face illuminated
and triumphant.
.

11. Young Solidary Europe
One of every 5 young people and
more than a hundred million European,
develop any kind of voluntary work.
There are very many different ways of
being a volunteer. Every voluntary gets
moved because of any type of
motivation, every aim they are looking
forward to is equally necessary.
In general lines, being a volunteer
makes you committed (in a non
interested way), to help someone else
and, normally, in an organized way
helped by an institution or any kind of
project.
Youth in Action, is a program of the
„European Commission‟ to promote the
volunteering and the exchanges
between the youth.
.

12. A terrible war
What was to be a short and glorious
war, which surely would end before
Christmas became a nightmare.
Never before in history so many
countries had fought to each other and
such a lot of weapons had been used
as deadly as in World War I. This
confrontation spread destruction and
misery all around Europe.
The huge equipment and resources
that some industrialized countries had,
made from it the more damaging war
and the one with most deaths ever in
history , the "Great War."

13. The Schuman Declaration
In a speech given in Paris in 1950,
French Foreign Minister Robert
Schuman proposed the creation of the
European Community of Coal and Steel
(ECSC) whose members would work
together in the production of coal and
steel. This is considered the beginning
of what is now the European Union
"The pooling of the production of
coal and steel (...) will change the
destinies of those regions which in long
time have dedicated themselves to the
manufacture of weapons, which they
themselves have been the first victims."
(Text of the Schumann Declaration)

14. Cruelty
The "Great War" breaks with
everything seen so far and advances in
cruelty, death and destruction.
Four years, three months and
fourteen days, in which fields were
destroyed by a continuous artillery fire
and became a hell of mud, barbed wire
and mines.
The enormous losses on both
sides of the conflict, in part, resulted
from the introduction of new weapons
like the machine gun and gas, as well
as the fact that the military leaders did
not adapt their tactics to the
increasingly mechanized nature of war.

15. The European Dignity
"The Union is founded on the
indivisible and universal values of
human dignity, freedom, equality and
solidarity, and is based on the principles
of democracy and the rule of law.
Instituting the Union of citizenship and
creating an area of freedom, security
and justice, the individual were located
at the heart of its activities“
Preamble to the Charter of
fundamental Rights of the
European Union

16. Europe in the trenches
In the first winter the war had already
become a war of trenches that was
extended over 764 km from the North
Sea to the Swiss border.
In the trenches the soldiers were
crowded , nearly always wet and
muddy in a cold and damp land such as
Northern France and Southern
Belgium. The conditions were appalling;
there were floods , mud, rats and
corpses.
The trenches of the front line were
the target of heavy fire ; the men got
out of the trenches to advance and
attack enemy troops that were
defended by guns.

17. The Schengen Area
Based on the Schengen Treaty of 1985
, it represents a territory where the free
movement of persons is guaranteed.
The states that have signed it have
abolished all internal borders and
instead they‟ve established a single
external border .
Anyone that has lawfully entered by an
external border or lives in one of the
countries applying the Convention can
travel freely from one member state to
another.
There are 24 countries taking part in
the Schengen system , thanks to it you
don‟t need a passport or you can go to
work or study in another European
country, for example.

18. The Christmas Truce
In the picture above, some kids
deposit soccer balls on the cross that
remember the 1914 Christmas truce in
Ypres (Belgium) , where there was an
unofficial cease fire and soldiers from
enemy trenches fraternized
spontaneously.
In addition to sharing carols
yearning their homes and exchanged
things, the time was used to bury the
dead from the battlefield. Among the
stories told about that brief time of
respite, there is one about a football
match between England and Germany.

19. Democratic passion
Today European citizens have
common values, that are shared and
innate in which we can t understanding
a society that is not democratic, free,
peaceful or protected by the law. The
European Union law requires that
candidate countries fulfill these
principles to be admitted.
In this context, passion and feelings
of belonging to a country or a football
team, are expressed today in a different
manner from they were expressed in
the beginning of the war. The European
Union has already made more than six
decades of “Christmas truce ".

20. Inventions for death
The fatal consequences of the war
were due largely to technological
developments that were used during
their development.
The plane as an instrument of war,
submarine, powerful canyons and good
range, flamethrower, the chemical and
biological war…
The scientific and technical
advances of European civilization of the
nineteenth century and the use of
industrial mass production made their
effects lethal for millions of people.

21. European technology
The CERN is an international lab
with 20 member states which is one of
the largest and most highly regarded
centers for scientific research. It has
got the biggest particle accelerator in
the world, which in 2012 was finally
identified the Higgs Boson. An
emblematic example of how Europe
has led a collective effort to solve one
of the deepest mysteries of physics.
Airbus S.A.S., European Aeronautic
Defense and Space company, is since
2011, the largest manufacturer of
planes and aeroscape equipment in the
world.

22. Places of horror
Battle of Verdun. Northeast of France.
From 21 February to 19 December
2016. A quarter of a million deaths and
half a million injured from both sides.
Battle of the Somme. North of France.
More than a million casualties. On his
first day, 1 July 1916, the British
suffered 57,740 casualties, of which
19,240 were deathly, and is the
bloodiest battle in their history.
These wars will be the bloodiest battles.
Others, such as Ypres, South Belgium,
will be remembered like the first wars,
where poison gas was used.

23. Places of the Union
Treaty of Rome. Signed in 1957, it
constitutes the European Economic
Community.
Maastricht Treaty. Signed in 1992 in
the Dutch city. The Treaty establishes a
European citizenship, strengthened the
powers of the European Parliament and
initiates economic and monetary union.
Lisbon Treaty. Was signed in 2007 and
amended two previous treaties to
improve the function of the European
Union. The Charter of Fundamental
Rights of the European Union, it
becomes binding on states.

24. Woman in War
The role of women has changed
dramatically with war, it went from
housewife to worker, nurse ...
The need to maintain the supplies
for the war and the mobilization of huge
armies caused the rear to become
orphan of manpower and had to resort
to the women to maintain the
production. This fact lead to a
revolution for their situation, because it
not only affected the industrial sector
jobs that were traditionally occupied by
males that were filled then by women,
and was soon common to see
waitresses, secretaries and tram
conductors.

25. The woman in the EU
The equality between men and
women is one of the main principles of
Community law.
The objectives of the European
Union on equality between men and
women are to ensure the same
opportunities and treatment between
men and women and combat
discrimination based on sex.
The European Parliament is actively
involved in driving to this equality and
promote a decent treatment. This year,
the campaign of the international
Women's Day has focused on raising
awareness and alert the Europeans on
the problem of abuse.

26. A Shattered Europe
A Europe lost about 10 million young
men who had participated in the war as
soldiers. Germany, two million, France,
1,400,000; Britain, 770,000; Italy,
530,000; Serbia, 400,000; Russia
1,700,000.
Also you should add to the 20
million disabled and the large number
of orphans who were left.
The brutality of this war still being
present in the landscape deformed
parts of the contention.

27. Una Europa galardonada
La Unión Europea fue galardonada
en el año 2012 con el premio Nobel de
la Paz.
“El premio es el mayor
reconocimiento posible a las
motivaciones políticas profundas que
sustentan nuestra Unión: el esfuerzo
sin precedentes, por parte de un
número cada vez mayor de Estados de
Europa, para superar la guerra y las
divisiones, y conformar entre todos un
continente en paz y prosperidad”
(Declaración conjunta de los
presidentes de la Comisión Europea y
el Consejo Europeo, Herman Van
Rompuy y Jose Manuel Durão
Barroso)
A Europe awarded
The European Union was awarded
in 2012 the Nobel Peace Prize.
"The award is the highest possible
recognition of the deep political
motivations underpinning our Union:
unprecedented effort by a growing
number of European states to
overcome war and divisions, and
prosperity "
(Joint Statement of the Presidents
of the European Commission and the
European Council, Herman Van
Rompuy and Jose Manuel Durão
Barroso)

28. In Flanders Fields
"In Flanders Fields" is a war poem
written during World War II by
Canadian doctor John McCrae, a
Lieutenant Colonel.
He wrote it on May 3, 1915, after the
funeral of his friend and classmate,
Alexis Helmer, a soldier who died in
the Second Battle of Ypres.
It refers to the poppies that covered
the graves of soldiers, that’s the
reason why this flower has become
one of the symbols of the First World
War.

29. Poppy day
El día del recuerdo, también
conocido como Poppy Day (Día de la
amapola) se celebra cada 11 de
Noviembre, día que acabó la Primera
Guerra mundial, en los páises de la
Commonwealth. Ese día se recuerda
a los caídos de aquella guerra y por
extensión de todos los conflictos.
En Europa, con la conmemoración
del primer centenario de la Primera
Guerra Mundial, se celebrarán
numerosos actos que recuerdan este
conflicto y nos invitan a no dejarlo caer
en el olvido.

30. Hour 11 Day 11 Month 11
Exhausted by war and with
serious internal riots, Germany gives
up. In a railway carriage in the forest of
Compiègne, the armistice is signed.
The end of the war is officially at 11 am,
on 11 November 1918.
However, the harsh
conditions and sanctions that are
imposed on Germany by the Treaty of
Versailles, will leave a wound without
closing.
Just two decades later, in
June 1940, Hitler specifically will order
to sign the surrender of France in the
same wagon of Compiegne. The Great
War will be finally only the first part of
the tragedy

31. Learning from mistakes
Again shattered by the Second
World War, the reconstruction of
Europe will try to carry out together and
promoting new relations between the
countries which leave behind rivalry
and revenge.
The Covenant spirit that underlies in
the different plans and treaties that will
be signed in Europe thereafter, are the
essential core of what will be the
European Union and have meant the
historical period of peace and
prosperity that we enjoy today.

32. Realization
http://clarinscola.blogspot.com.es/
http://www.euro-scola.com/
Image obtained from official publications
and educational materials of the European Union
http://europa.eu
and various web pages published the commemoration of the first world war
http://www.europeana1914-1918.eu/en
http://www.firstworldwar.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww1
http://www.iwm.org.uk/centenary