Download Course Unit Title: 20th Century World History Course Unit Code

Course Unit Title:
20th Century World History
Course Unit Code:
HIS146
Type of Course Unit:
Optional
(Compulsory/Optional)
Level of Course Unit:
Bachelor (1st cycle)
(first, second or third cycle)
Year of Study:
1
Semester when the unit is
delivered:
Number of ECTS credits
allocated:
Name of lecturer(s):
1
6
TBA
Learning Outcomes of the course unit:
Upon successful completion of this course students should be able to:
•
Analyse and explain the political and economical antagonism between the European
states and the imperial expansion that led to the First World War
•
Present the new ideologies as forces that shaped the world in the 20th centuryRussian Revolution and the creation of the first socialistic country, rise of fascism in
Europe
•
Interpret the causes that led to the Second World War as well as ability to present
the major events during this period
•
Analyse the ideological struggle and division of the two hostile camps of the 20th
century
•
Analyse the Arab-Israeli conflict and explain its consequences on the contemporary
political situation in the area
Explain the role of the ideological struggles in the shaping of the states in different
areas of the world
Mode of Delivery:
Face- to- face
Prerequisites and corequisites:
None
Recommended optional
None
program components:
Course Contents:
Objective:
To give students a broad historical perspective on the concepts and causal forces that
shaped historical events of the 20th century, placing major political, economic and social
developments in a global context.
Description:
The course is designed to provide students with a synopsis of major political, economic,
and social developments of the 20th century in the context of a broad historical
perspective. Emphasis is given to the interweaving of concepts and causal forces that
shaped world history -- nationalism and revolution; totalitarianism and the crisis of
democracy;
the
Cold War;
creative
confrontation,
neutralism
and Third World
nonalignment; detente and rapprochement; and decolonization, development, and ethnic
conflict.
Specific topics covered in the course are as follows:
Europe
The First World War
Peace treaties after World War I
The Russian Revolution and Stalin's Russia 1914-1941
Germany 1918-1939
France 1918-1944
Spain 1923-1939
Italy 1919-1945
The Second World War
The Cold War and Eastern Europe 1942-1989
Western Europe since 1945
The Far East
The making of the Chinese Revolution 1914-1949
China since 1949
India and Pakistan 1914-1947
Modern Japan 1914-1989
The Second World War in Asia and the Pacific 1937-1945
The Indian Sub-continent since 1947
Indo-China and Vietnam 1945-1975
South-East Asia since 1945
Australasia
Australia and New Zealand since 1914
The Middle East
The Middle East since 1914
The Ataturk Revolution and fall of the Ottoman Empire
Palestine: from the Balfour Declaration to 1948
Arab-Israeli conflict since 1948
Africa
The making of modern Africa
The development of South Africa 1912-1989
Latin America and the Caribbean
The Mexican Revolution 1910-1917
The United States as regional 'gendarme' 1912-1933
Latin America 1916-1929
Latin America 1930-1939: the age of the dictators
Latin America and the Caribbean 1940-1959
The Cuban Revolution 1917-1989
Latin America and the Caribbean since 1960
North America
United States 1914-1945
United States since 1945
Canada since 1914
Recent developments and contemporary issues pertaining to the subject-matter of the
course.
Recommended
or
Required Reading:
Robin W. Winks, R.J.Q. Adams: EUROPE- CRISIS AND
CONFLICT (1890-1945) Oxford University Press
Adas, Michael, Peter N. Stearns and Stuart Swartz, B.:
TURBULENT PASSAGE: A GLOBAL HISTORY OF THE
TWENTIETH CENTURY New York: Harper
Kishlansky, Mark, et al.: SOCIETITES AND CULTURES
IN WORLD HISTORY. VOL. C, New York: Harper
Greaves, Robert L., et al.: CIVILIZATIONS OF THE
WORLD VOL. C. New York: Harper
Planned learning activities
and teaching methods:
Assessment methods and
criteria:
Class Instruction
42 Hours
Consultation
15 Hours
Examinations
Assignments / Class
Participation
Paper
Language of Instruction:
English
Work Placement(s):
No
Place of Teaching:
Regular Classroom
European University Cyprus, Nicosia
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