The Modern World, Part Two: Global History since 1910

About this course: This is a survey of modern history from a global perspective. Part Two begins early in the twentieth century, as older ways of doing things and habits of thought give way. What follows is an era of cataclysmic struggles over what ideas and institutions will take their place. The course concludes in the present day, as communities everywhere are transitioning into a new era of world history. Again we work hard to grasp what is happening and ask: Why? Again we are drawn to pivotal choices made at key moments by individuals and communities.

Created by:  University of Virginia

• Taught by:  Philip Zelikow, White Burkett Miller Professor of History

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Syllabus


WEEK 1


Crackup (1905-1917)



6 videos expand

1. Video: The Shock of 1914
2. Video: Schizophrenic Germany
3. Video: The Balkan Whirlpool
4. Video: The Shock of 1914-Second Cut
5. Video: All the Plans Fail
6. Video: On to Victory?

Graded: Week Eight Quiz

WEEK 2


New Orders Emerge (1917-1930)



8 videos expand

1. Video: Total States
2. Video: Why Did the Allies Win?
3. Video: The End of Empires?
4. Video: Communism
5. Video: Anti-Communism
6. Video: The Age of Uncertainty
7. Video: Modern Women
8. Video: The World of 1930

Graded: Week Nine Quiz

WEEK 3


The Crisis of the World (1930-1940)



5 videos expand

1. Video: Challenges to Capitalism and Collective Security
2. Video: Escapes from Freedom
3. Video: Total Politics
4. Video: New Wars for New Empires
5. Video: Triumph of the New Empires

Graded: Week Ten Quiz

WEEK 4


Total War and Aftermath (1940-1950)



8 videos expand

1. Video: Choosing Global War
2. Video: Gambling for Victory
3. Video: Strategies for Total War
4. Video: Zero Hour
5. Video: Imagining New Countries
6. Video: Postwar
7. Video: Two Europes
8. Video: Revolutionary Asia

Graded: Week Eleven Quiz

WEEK 5


The Return of Wartime (1950-1968)



9 videos expand

1. Video: The Age of the Americans
2. Video: Choosing War in Korea
3. Video: Contemplating World War III
4. Video: The Shadow of World War III
5. Video: The Nuclear Revolution
6. Video: New Empires and Confederations
7. Video: The Third World
8. Video: To the Brink
9. Video: Wars of Containment

Graded: Week Twelve Quiz

WEEK 6


Decay and Renaissance (1968-1991)



7 videos expand

1. Video: Breakdown and Reaction
2. Video: The Weary Establishment
3. Video: Bust
4. Video: New Thinking in the West
5. Video: Global Capitalism Transformed
6. Video: New Thinking in the East
7. Video: The End of the Cold War

Graded: Week Thirteen Quiz

WEEK 7


The Next Phase (1991-2013)



8 videos expand

1. Video: The 'Washington Consensus'
2. Video: Toward a New Era in World History
3. Video: The Great Convergence
4. Video: The Bottom Billion
5. Video: The Muslim World
6. Video: Drift and Shock
7. Video: The Global and the Local
8. Video: An Age of Transition

Graded: Week Fourteen Quiz