Week 14

Modern Europe

Monday, Nov. 27: Cold War, Part I

Watch:

Read:

  • John Merriman, “The Cold War and the End of European Empires,” in A History of Modern Europe: From the Renaissance to the Present (New York: W.W. Norton, 2010), 1147–60. (on Zotero)

Wednesday, Nov. 29: Cold War, Part II

Watch:

Read:

  • James DeFronzo, “The Soviet Union and Revolution in Eastern Europe,” in Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements, 7th ed. (New York: Taylor & Francis Group, 2022), 58–70.

Friday, Dec. 1: Discussion #10

Read:

  • “THE MARSHALL PLAN (1947),” accessed August 20, 2023, https://usa.usembassy.de/etexts/democrac/57.htm.
  • Winston Churchill, “‘Iron Curtain Speech’, March 5, 1946,” Internet History Sourcebooks: Modern History, accessed August 20, 2023, https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/churchill-iron.asp.
  • Joseph Stalin, “Reply to Churchill, 1946,” Internet History Sourcebooks: Modern History, accessed August 20, 2023, https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1946stalin.asp.
  • “The Beveridge Report,” December 6, 1998, http://web.archive.org/web/19981206042206/http://www.dss.gov.uk/50years/bevridge.htm.
  • Maurice Couve de Murville, “France’s View of the Atlantic Alliance and NATO, 1966,” accessed August 20, 2023, https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1966-france-non-nato.asp.