uk-history 英美文化课件.ppt

English History English History The Middle Ages The 16th Century The 17th Century The 18th Century The 19th Century The 20th Century The Middle Ages Before the Middle Ages The Middle Ages The Crusades The power of the Church “Eternal damnation” and “excommunicating” The Magna Carta King John The One Hundred Years War with France Joan of Arc The 16th Century The Wars of the Roses The Changing Europe Henry VIII The Protestant Church Bloody Mary The Reign of Queen Elizabeth I Literature Adventure on the sea (Sir Francis Drake) The Gunpowder Plot (Guy Fawkes) The 17th Century The Civil War King Charles I “Divine Right” “Roundheads” “Cavaliers” The Restoration King Charles II King James II The Glorious Revolution The 18th Century Victory over France The Battle of Waterloo The Battle of Trafalgar The Industrial Revolution Invention of the steam engine Factories and coal-mines multiplied with big towns spring up Conflicts between labor and capital Loss of American colonies The “Pilgrim Fathers” and the ship Mayflower Declaration of Independence The 19th Century Reformation in Britain To overcome social problems To make Parliament more representative To improve local government and social services Progress in communications Railway network and steamship, telegraphy and electric telephone, electric lighting, electric trams, the Penny Post Victorian Age [the monarch from 1837 to 1901] The 20th Century A century of disturbance, riot, decline, and disgraceful failure Waking of the working classes The “suffragette” movement Trouble in Ireland The First World War The once solid British Empire collapsed The multi-lateral British Commonwealth of Nations The economic depression in the 1930s The 20th Century The Second World War The Battle of Britain Independence of most of the colonies “second fiddle” The United Nations and the “three worlds” The “Cold War” between Russia and the West New discoveries and new techniques Motor-car, the wireless, the airplane, nuclear war, space