Governments of countries's wealth

Country                          Wealth of country in billions


United States                       $13,201,820

Japan                                   $4,340,133

Germany                              $2,906,681

China                                   $2,668,071

United Kingdom                   $2,345,015

France                                  $2,230,721

Italy                                      $1,844,749

Canada                                $1,251,463

Spain                                   $1,223,988

Brazil                                   $1,067,962

Russia                                  $986,940

India                                    $906,268

South-Korea                       $888,024

Mexico                                $839,182

Australia                              $768,178

Thoughts for presentation

Subject:: Napoleon Bonaparte.

Different stages of life as different slides:

Early life, rise to power, the French army/Grand Armee, Campaigns (1805 - 1812), the Duke of Wellington, late battles (1813 - 1815) and exile and death.

Design of slides:
Picture and some words on each slide with a yellow background; aim for bite sized chunked slides.

Research:
Born in Corsica in 1769.
Was sent by his parents to France to train as an artillery lieutenant.
Almost killed in the French Revolution.

He fought (and won) some battles as a minor revolutionary general aginst the Austrians, the British and the Egyptians.
In 1804, he became Emperor of the French Empire.
He built up the French army and navy until they were very powerful.

Grand Armee was originally known as the Channel army, but due to the British admiral Nelson's victory at the battle of Trafalgar, it never acheived its primary objective of invading Great Britain.
However, Austria and Russia were bribed by the hugely wealthy Britain to declare war on France and so Napoleon re- named the Channel Army the Grande Armee.

He fought numerous campaigns with this force, including the campaigns of 1805, 1806 and 1807, Wagram and Russia.
In the first four, he acheived amazing success, taking over huge swathes of Europe and humbling the empires of Austria, Prussia and Russia.
However, in the Russian campaign, Napoleon's army was destroyed; he started with just under 600,000 men and finished with less than 100,000.

The British Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, also helped in Napoleon's first defeat by wearing down his troops in Spain and Portugal with the help of those countries's populations. The Iberian peninsular was thus nicknamed by Napoleon "The Ulcer of Europe."

Although he acheived some very good victories in the German and French campaigns, Napoleon was eventually beaten by numbers around three times his size and with troops of better quality than his own at the battle of Leipzig.

He was then banished to the island of Elba, but he came back and, after winning his people's support, in what became known as the hundred days war, fought several battles that cultimated in his very narrow defeat at Waterloo by Wellesley and the Prussian Marshal Blucher.

Napoleon was banished again, this time to the island of St Helena, where he died in 1821.

Powerpoint on Naploleon Bonaparte

Main car brands and their nationalities

German: Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Audi, Volkswagen, Porsche, Opel, Smart.

Japanese: Toyota, Honda, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Subaru, Suziki, Nissan, Lexus.

Italian: Fiat, Lancia, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Bugatti, Alfa-Romeo.

French: Renault, Citroen, Peugeot.

British: Bentley, Aston Martin, Rolls-Royce, Mini.

South Korean: Kia, Hyundai.

Swedish: Saab, Volvo

Croatian: Skoda.

American: Ford, Range/Land Rover, Jeep, General Motors, Mustang.