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Humanities GEP: 3 Credits |
A unique opportunity to integrate Modern American History with Europe, specifically, the Czech Republic. The course examines America’s involvement in WWI, the creation of Czechoslovakia (an Allied supporter) out of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and how the two countries coped with the economic and political changes as the world adjusts to a failed League of Nations and plunges into WWII, and then the Cold War. This era sees Americans fearful of a world Communist takeover, yet failing to support the democratic liberalization movements of the Prague Spring (1968) and the earlier Hungarian revolt (1956). The course will analyze the world after the fall of Communism (the 1989 Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia), and where the U. S. and Europe are positioned in the 21st century.
