HIST 388
Decolonization and the Cold War Fall 2023
Division II

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The second half of the twentieth century came to be defined by two distinct, yet overlapping and intertwined phenomena: the Cold War and decolonization. In the two decades that followed the end of WWII, forty new nation-states were born amidst the bipolar struggle for global supremacy between the Soviet Union and the United States. Those new nations were swept up in the Cold War competition in ways that profoundly influenced their paths to independence and their postcolonial orders, but they often had transformative effects on the Soviet-American rivalry as well. In this course, students will focus on two related questions: How did decolonization influence the Cold War and the international behavior and priorities of the two superpowers? And what impact did the Cold War exert on the developing states and societies of Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America? Course materials will consist of scholarly texts, primary sources, memoirs, films, and fiction.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 25
Expected: 15
Class#: 1910
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: class participation, several short papers, and a 10- to 12-page final paper
Prerequisites: none
Enrollment Preferences: History majors; juniors and seniors
Distributions: Division II
Attributes: GBST South + Southeast Asia Studies Electives
HIST Group G Electives - Global History
LEAD American Foreign Policy Leadership

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