IHIS170 — Theme,issues, 20th C. in Persp
This module considers a number of selected themes, issues and movements which significantly shaped and changed the political, social and economic history of the twentieth century e.g. Communism, Facism, Nazism, Anti-Imperialist and Anti-Colonial movements, The Cold War, the global influence of the USA, Civil Rights and Democracy movements, the collapse of the Communist bloce c. 1990. The module seeks to explain these events, and also to consider how and why they have been interpreted so differently at different times and in different places during the course of the century.