Contemporary History: An Interdisciplinary Perspective I. (Czech and World History, 1945 - 1968) - Seminar

Syllabus

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

Annotation

A follow-up seminar to the course "Contemporary History in Interdisciplinary Perspective I."