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Course overview 2024-2026
Prescribed subject
3. The move to global war (40 hours)
Course book:
Todd, Allan: The Move to Global War, Cambridge University Press, 2015 (pp. 6-16, 19-51, 55-77, 81-96, 100-138, 142-158, 169-189, 193-198)
World History Topics
10. Authoritarian States (20th century) (45 hours)
Case studies: Hitler Germany; Castro Cuba; and Mao China
Course book:
Todd, Allan and Sally Waller: Authoritarian States (20th Century), Second Edition, Cambridge University Press, 2015 (pp. 5-11, 76-128, 132-179, 183-246)
Additional material:
“The Nature of Single-Party States”(Friedrich and Brzezinski, In Canon et al: 20th Century World History, Oxford, 2008, pp. 326-327)
“The Triumph of the Will” (Leni Riefenstahl (dir.), 1935) – excerpt from the film.
“An Interpretation of Hitler’s Rise to Power”, In Wolfson, Robert and John Laver: Years of Change: European History 1890-1990 – Third Edition, Hodder and Stoughton, 2001, pp. 225-229
“German Women by Joseph Goebbels”, extract, 1934, http://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/goeb55.htm [last accessed 160915]
“Downfall” (Oliver Hirschbiegel (dir.), 2004)
“Declassified: Chairman Mao” (History Channel, 2006) - documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1DF0PVrK74
12. The Cold War: Superpower tensions and rivalries (20th century) (45 hours)
Impact of leaders on the course and development of the Cold War: Truman, Stalin, Churchill, Khrushchev, Mao, Castro, Gorbachev, Reagan
Cold War crises case studies: The Americas: The Cuban Missile Crisis (1962); Europe: Berlin blockade (1948-49), The Hungarian Uprising (1956) and the Berlin Crisis (1958-61); Asia and Oceania: The Taiwan Strait Crises (1955 and 1958).
Case studies of the economic, social and cultural impact of Cold War on nations USA, USSR, Germany, China, Cuba.
Course book:
Mamaux, Alexis: The Cold War - Superpower Tensions and Rivalries. Oxford University Press, 2015 (pp. 10-51, 69-75, 84-90, 94, 107-126, 145-152, 188-213)
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