PAU History (Catalonia) study plan

Build a dated timeline of the crisis of the Ancien Régime in Spain and France from 1788 to 1808, marking at least ten events and one cause and consequence for each

Explain in writing the phases of the French Revolution up to 1799, distinguishing moderate, radical and reactionary stages and naming the key institutions of each

Summarise the Napoleonic era and its impact on Spain, including the War of Independence, the Constitution of 1812 and the loss of the American empire

Define the main economic and social transformations of the Industrial Revolution and identify the British and Catalan cases as parallel industrialisations

Compare the Spanish and European industrialisation processes, explaining demographic, agrarian and transport changes and the role of protectionism

Describe the Restoration system in Spain after 1814 and explain its political and social bases

Trace the liberal revolutions of 1820, 1830 and 1848 in Europe and link them to Spanish liberal and Carlist conflicts

Identify the main nationalist movements in nineteenth-century Europe and explain their unification processes

Outline the Spanish liberal state-building process from the regencies to the Constitution of 1869, naming the main parties and constitutions

Explain the Carlist wars and the role of the army and the crown in Spanish political life

Describe the Spanish sexenio democrático, its governments, the 1869 Constitution and the First Republic

Connect the Spanish liberal state to Catalan political and economic developments of the period

Map the causes and stages of European imperial expansion between 1870 and 1914, distinguishing colonial models and their economic and ideological justifications

Explain the alliance system and the crises that led to the First World War

Describe the main phases, fronts and social consequences of the First World War

Analyse the peace treaties and their territorial and political consequences, including their effect on Spain

Sequence the Russian Revolution from February to October 1917 and explain the consolidation of the Bolshevik state and the USSR

Compare the crisis of liberal democracies in the interwar period, including the Great Depression and its political effects

Characterise fascism and Nazism, explaining their rise to power and their institutional and ideological features

Summarise the phases of the Second World War and its consequences for the international order

Explain the origins and phases of the Cold War and identify the main blocs, institutions and crises

Describe decolonisation processes in Asia and Africa and their consequences for the bipolar order

Analyse the causes of the collapse of the Soviet bloc and the end of the bipolar world

Connect Spain's international position in this period to its internal evolution

Describe the Spanish Restoration system, its parties, caciquismo and the role of the crown

Explain the Primo de Rivera dictatorship and its political and economic programme

Summarise the Second Republic, the Civil War and the main phases of Francoism

Trace the transition to democracy, including the 1978 Constitution and the articulation of the state of autonomies

Explain Catalan industrialisation and its social consequences, including the emergence of the labour movement

Describe the development of the Catalanist movement from the late nineteenth century to the Second Republic

Analyse Catalonia during the Republic, the Civil War and Francoist repression, including cultural and political consequences

Explain the recovery of Catalan self-government, from the 1979 Statute to its later institutional development

Integrate domains 6 and 7 into a single narrative of modern Spanish and Catalan history