HIST 132 - Europe, 1939 to Present: World War, Cold War and BeyondSemester Hours: 3 Every other year
World War II and the Holocaust, origins and course of the Cold War, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe from Stalin to Gorbachev. Decolonization and relations with the Third World, American influences and consumerism, European unity and its failings, de Gaulle and “neutralism.” The 1968 student uprising and Eurocommunism, decentralization and Soviet control in the Communist bloc, the creation of the European Union, the problems of a European identity.
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