Didactics of the Spanish Civil War: chemical warfare

Abstract

At the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, it was thought that chemical warfare would have much prominence. The precedent of the First World War was, in this regard, a terrible experience. .They began to take measures in a hasty manner in case chemical attacks occurred. gas attacks, in the front or the rear, the people had, what was the information and the prevention and defense measures. It is a workshop designed for secondary education that can be developed without too much complexity and that helps approximate a time when the possibility of a chemical war became a real nightmare. The workshop is currently in the experimentation phase at the Faculty of Education of the University of Barcelona and will later be implemented in the Museo de Torre Balldovina, in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, as part of the museumization of its air raid shelter.