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

A World Transformed

Internet Exercises

Perestroika

What was the purpose behind Gorbachev's perestroika? Characterize the reaction to it from Communist Party hardliners.

Link 1
(http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/pere.html)

Havel and the Velvet Revolution Who is Vaclav Havel and what was his role in Czechoslovakia's non-violent revolution?
Link 1 (http://fmv.vse.cz/cz/cz/havel.html)



Link 2 (http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/vhavel.htm)



Link 3 (http://www.crosscurrents.org/capps.htm)

The Revolutions of 1989 Discuss the spirit evinced in the quotations and connect them to the insights from the secondary source.
Link 1 (http://mars.acnet.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/wc2/lectures/rev89.html)



Link 2 (http://www.lib.msu.edu/sowards/balkan/lect24.htm)

Collapse of Communism: A Marxist Perspective

How does the author explain why the Soviet regime failed?

Link 1
(http://eserver.org/history/collapse-of-ussr.txt)

Can Turks be Germans? Discuss the dilemma regarding the millions of Turks who have moved to Germany since the 1950s.
Link 1 (http://home.snafu.de/gymnasiumsteglitz/no4/archiv/no2/pics/diagramm.jpg)



Link 2 (http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/may2001/turk-m04.shtml)



Link 3 (http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/journal/vol2no3/ozdemir.html)

The Tragedy of Kosovo

Use the documents to explain how the Kosovars became the target of Serbian "ethnic cleansing."

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

Vatican II Analyze some of the texts of the second Vatican Council, 1962-5, to discuss how the council changed the shape of modern Catholicism.
Link 1 (http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/)



Link 2 (http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/v1.html)

The Women's Liberation Movement Compare Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949) with Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (1963) to discuss the development of modern feminism.
Link 1 (http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/2ndsex.htm)



Link 2 (http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/friedan.htm)

The Kyoto Protocol

Explain what's at issue in global warming and evaluate this solution to the problem of global climate change.

Link 1
(http://www.cnie.org/nle/clim-3.html)

The Eighties

Write a history of the 1980s, your birth decade.

Link 1
(http://eightiesclub.tripod.com/id119.htm)

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