Syllabus Information

5.1. Methodological overview

See "Learning activities " and "Syllabus".

More information will be provided on the first day of class.

5.2. Learning tasks

• Theoretical lectures.

• Practical lectures.

• Individual work.

• Personal study.

• Assessment activities.

   

5.3. Syllabus

1. World War Two and the Aftermath (1939-1947). Creating a New International Order.

2. What  was the Cold War?  Chronology, Causes, and Consequences . Emergence of two hostile Power Blocks: The United States and the Soviet Union.The bipolar world .

3. The Role of the Mass Media and Propaganda during the Cold War.

4. Stalinist Russia,Totalitarianism,hostility, coexistence and disintegration. From Stalin to Gorbachev.

5. The United States: containment, interventionism and tolerance. From Truman to Reagan.

6. The  construction of Democratic Europe: Communitary agreements. The East European  Soviet satellite States (1945-1991).

7. Decolonization and its consequences, from 1960 to the Present.

8.What everyone should know about Islam and Muslims?. Approach to contemporary Islamic world.

9. Latin America from 1945 to the Present.

10.The End of the Cold War (1986-1991) and The post–Cold War era.

5.4. Course planning and calendar

See the academic calendar of the University of Zaragoza (http://academico.unizar.es/calendario-academico/calendario) and the website of the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts (Schedule of classes: https://fyl.unizar.es/horario-de-clases#overlay-context=horario-de-clases;Examination schedule: https://fyl.unizar.es/calendario-de-examenes#overlay-context=)

More information will be provided on the first day of class.

5.5. Bibliography and recommended resources

[BB: Bibliografía básica / BC: Bibliografía complementaria]

• [BB] Aldcroft, Derek Howard. Historia de la economía europea : 1914-2000 / Dereck H. Aldcroft . - Nueva edición ampl. y act. Barcelona : Critica, 2003
• [BB] Aracil Martí, Rafael. El mundo actual : de la Segunda Guerra Mundial a nuestros días / Rafael Aracil, Joan Oliver, Antoni Segura . - [1a. ed.] Barcelona : Universitat de Barcelona, 1995
• [BB] Fink, Carole. Cold War : an international history / Carole K. Fink, The Ohio State University. . Boulder, CO : Westview Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2014]
• [BB] Fuentes, Juan Francisco. Historia universal del Siglo XX : de la Primera Guerra Mundial al ataque a las Torres Gemelas / Juan Francisco Fuentes, Emilio La Parra López Madrid : Síntesis , 2001
• [BB] Gaddis, John Lewis. Nueva historia de la guerra fría / Jonh Lewis Gaddis ; traducción de Juan Almela México : FCE, 2011
• [BB] García de Cortázar, Fernando. Historia del mundo actual, 1945-1989 / Fernando García de Cortázar, José María Lorenzo Espinosa . - [1a. ed.] Madrid : Alianza Editorial, D.L. 1989
• [BB] Historia del mundo actual / José U. Martinez Carreras ... [et al.] Madrid : Marcial Pons, Ediciones Jurídicas y Sociales, D.L. 1996
• [BB] Historia Oxford del siglo XX / Michael Howard y W. Roger Louis (eds.) ; traducción de Cristina Pagès y Víctor Alba Barcelona : Planeta, 1999
• [BB] Historia universal contemporánea. II. De la Primera Guerra Mundial a nuestros días / Javier Paredes (coord.) . - 3a. ed. amp. y act. Barcelona : Ariel, 2004
• [BB] Hobsbawm, Eric J.. Historia del siglo XX : 1914-1991 / Eric Hobsbawm . - [1a ed.] Barcelona : Crítica, D.L. 1995
• [BB] Judt, Tony. Postguerra : una historia de Europa desde 1945 / Tony Judt ; traducción de Jesús Cuéllar y Victoria E. Gordo del Rey Madrid : Taurus, D.L. 2006
• [BB] Mammarella, Giuseppe. Historia de Europa contemporánea desde 1945 hasta hoy / Giuseppe Mammarella ; [traducción de Juana Bignozzi y Francisco J. Ramos (act.)] . - 1a. ed. Barcelona : Ariel, 1996
• [BB] McMahon, Robert J., 1949-. The Cold War: a very history introcuction / Robert McMahon Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003
• [BB] The Cambridge history of the Cold War / edited by Melvyn P. Leffler and Odd Arne Westad. 1st pbk ed. Cambridge : Cambridge University, 2015
• [BB] Villani, Pasquale. La edad contemporánea, 1945 hasta hoy / Pasquale Villani . - [1a. ed.] Barcelona : Ariel, 1997