79-205 20th Century Europe

9 units, Carnegie Mellon University

This course surveys the history of Europe from 1900 through the present. We shall examine some of the major political trends and socialeconomic changes of the last century, including the collapse of Europes multiethnic empires and the rise of the modern nationstate the extraordinary violence and impact of WWI and the rise of ethnonationalism and fascism during the interwar period The Spanish Civil War, WWII and the War in the Balkans in the 1990s. We will also examine Communism and its collapse colonial resistance and the process of decolonization and the creation of the European Union. In addressing contemporary Europe, we shall discuss the reemergence of ethnonationalism and rising antiimmigrant sentiment and antisemitism over the last decades cultural and political debates surrounding Islam and Muslims contemporary debates over the memory of the Holocaust, and Russias brutal war against Ukraine. Primary sources, academic articles, memoir and film will be used in the classroom to explore these topics. Classes will combine lecture, discussion and group work.

Prerequisites: none listed

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