Global Economic Crisis and Restructuring of the Social and Political Order

History of Ideas 11

HHD-

  • Humanities and Sciences
  • Spring 2021
  • Class Times: Thursday 8:30-10:30AM

This course is a continuation of HHD-3011, History of Ideas: The 20th Century I. Topics include: the Depression, New Deal, World War II, the Cold War, the turbulent 1960s, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, Watergate, Irangate, the third world. The ideas of Hitler; Mao; Martin Luther King, Jr.; and the issues behind McCarthyism, totalitarianism, socialism, capitalism and communism will be discussed

Faculty Information

Course Outcomes

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Department Outcomes

This course supports the following departmental learning outcomes:

  • A developed capacity for critical and analytical thinking.
  • An understanding of major theories and principles of science and social sciences disciplines.
  • The ability to present and communicate effectively, in oral and written form.

 

Required Texts/Textbooks

A History of US, Book 10 by Joy Hakim

Course Outline

  1. Global Economic Crisis and Restructuring of the Social and Political Order
  2. Socialism and Communism
  3. The role of artists in political and social movements, Abstract Art

Read- Chapter- Preface, page 9-12

2.World War II: The Final Crisis of European Global Dominance

  1. The dropping of the Atomic Bomb/Hydrogen Bomb Manhattan Project
  2. Re-drawing the map of Europe- The Yalta Conference

Reading, Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine, NATO, Warsaw Pact, BI-Polar World, Arms Race

Chapter 1, 5

 

  1. From Cold War to the Global Marketplace: International Relations since 1945
  2. The Cold War, Domino Theory, Military Industrial Complex, IMF, World Bank, United Nations
  3. Korean war
  4. The Vietnam War
  5. Berlin Wall

Reading- Chapter-3, 4, 9, 7,  10, 11, 27

4.The United States and Western Europe in the Post-War Decades

  1. McCarthy Period
  2. The 1960’s
  3. CIA and Abstract Art- Pollack, De kooning, Motherwell
  4. The Cuban Missile Crises
  5. Fall of the Berlin Wall, End of the Cold War, Multi-polar world

Read- Chapter 7,8,17,18,21,22,23,27,28, 32,35,36,38,

 

  1. The Break-up of the Soviet Union
  2. Iraq War
  3. Rise of religious movements
  4. Afghanistan War

        Read- Chapter 40, 44, 45, 49, 51,43, 54

 

 

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