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A History of the Modern World, 9/e

R R Palmer, Yale University
Joel Colton, Duke University
Lloyd Kramer, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

The Postwar Era: Cold War and Reconstruction

Internet Exercises

The First Dissident Discuss how and why Tito's Yugoslavia came into conflict with the USSR.
Link 1 (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1948cominform-yugo1.html)



Link 2 (http://campus.northpark.edu/history//WebChron/EastEurope/TitoStalin.html)



Link 3 (http://www.titoville.com/)

The Cold War: An American Policy Perspective, 1950

Analyze how, at the beginning of the Cold War, American security analysts understood the growing conflict between the US and the USSR.

Link 1
(http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/nsc-68/nsc68-1.htm)

Rewriting Cold war history

Locate some newly available documents and then write on some aspect of the Cold War as this has changed in recent years.

Link 1
(http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/coldwar.htm)

Causes of the Korean War Discuss the different interpretations of how the Korean War came about.
Link 1 (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1950-korea-un1.html)



Link 2 (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1950-gromyko-korea.html)



Link 3 (http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/korpart.htm)

Marshall Plan What did Marshall propose? Why did he see the Plan as critical to European recovery? How effective was the Plan as implemented?
Link 1 (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1947marshallplan1.html)



Link 2 (http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/marshall/)

France, 1968 Analyze the posters and texts to understand the 1968 upheavals in France.
Link 1 (http://burn.ucsd.edu/paristab.htm)



Link 2 (http://vicu.utoronto.ca/library/exhibitions/posters/)



Link 3 (http://www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/History/teaching/sem17/stud.htm)

A United States of Europe?

What did Churchill advocate, and why? Where did he think the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union would stand in relationship to his projected United States of Europe?

Link 1
(http://www.proeuropa.gr/euroreader/1churchill.html)

Krushchev's Secret Speech

How did Krushchev characterize Stalin's behavior? How did he distinguish this from Lenin's?

Link 1
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/krushchev-secret.html)

The Clash between Beijing and Moscow

Use these newly available Chinese documents to discuss the growing rift between the People's Republic of China and the USSR in the years 1956-58.

Link 1
(http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/CWIHP/BULLETINS/b6-7a10.htm)

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