HIST 259

Fall 2020 All Classes

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20thC World from Midcentury

Credit: 3 hours.

Economic, social, political, and cultural developments in twentieth-century world history from Second World War era to the present.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Cultural Studies - Western

Humanities – Hist & Phil

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HIST 259 class schedule data for fall 2020
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	69361	Lecture-Discussion	B	11:00AM -11:50AM	MWF	314 Altgeld Hall	Cowan, F	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/20-12/09/20 Degree Notes: Humanities - Hist & Phil, and Cultural Studies - Western course. Section Info: This section will have distributed classroom attendance with supplemental instruction. You will receive an email from the instructor with specific attendance directives. Topic: Global History of the Cold War Description: This course examines the Cold War (ca. 1945-91) from a global perspective. We will look at the political, social, cultural, and environmental history of superpower conflict between the United States of America and the Soviet Union in the second half of the twentieth century, focusing not just on events in Washington and Moscow but also the importance of developments around the world. This course will discuss major events in Cold War political history, but will also look at how the Cold War world affected everyday lives, social movements, cultural developments, and environmental changes in the USA, the USSR, and countries around the world.