Sylabus
Lecture topics:01. Cold War and the bipolar world: the origins of the conflict and historical interpretations02.
Marshall Plan and the CMEA: economic development in postwar Europe03. Third World decolonization process: The fall of the British and French empires04.
First and second Berlin crisis: Daily life in occupation zones05. Korean Conflict: A proxy war and the role of the UN06t.
Polish and Hungarian crisis in 1956: Social aspects of the Eastern Bloc countries07. Israeli-Arab conflict: "Three wars" in the Middle East (1948, 1956 and 1967)08.
Cuba Missile Crisis: At the edge of nuclear war09. Space Race: German origins, the Soviet leadership and the American victory10.
War in Vietnam: Army, media and society11. Student movement in 1968: political and cultural context
Anotace
A follow-up seminar to the course "Contemporary History: an Interdisciplinary Perspective I."