Overview
Lecturer
Sorin Arhire
Seminar tutor
Sorin Arhire
Type of course
Elective (1 of 2)
Language of instruction
Romanian
Erasmus language
English
Domain
History
Field of study
History
Form of education
Full-time
Form of instruction
Lecture
Credit awarded by
Grade
Teaching methods
Lecture, conversation, exemplification.
Entry requirements
World History of the 20th century.
Aims
Knowing and a correct using of fundamental ideas concerning concepts specific to History of the Cold War.
Understanding and a correct using of fundamental ideas concerning concepts specific to History of the Cold War.
Integration in a coherent structure of main theorizations and value landmarks recognised in History of the Cold War as well as in connected domains.
Course contents
1. The breakdown of the Grand Alliance in 1945.
2. Division of the Cold War.
3. The Marshall plan.
4. The Truman doctrine.
5. The Berlin Wall – symbol of the Cold War.
6. Cuban Missile Crisis (1962).
7. The Brezhnev doctrine.
8. The Ostpolitik promoted by Willy Brandt.
9. United Nations.
10. Fall of communism in East-Central Europe.
11. USA and the Soviet Union during the late of ‘80s.
12. The end of the Cold War and its consequences.
Learning outcomes
Retrieval of written sources on the historical past;
Establishing historical facts on the basis of historical sources and outside of these;
The concrete production of new historical knowledge on the basis of deeper insights within the study of an epoch and/or of a medium complexity historical subject.
Assessment
Written paper – interpretative essay – 60%; continuous assessment – 40%.
Recommended reading
Diplomacy
Kissinger, Henry,
Simon & Schuster, New York, 1994 · 912
Russia, America and the Cold War, 1949-1991,
McCauley, Martin
Longman Limited, London, 1998 · 154
The Cold War: A New History
Gaddis, John Lewis,
Penguin Press, London, 2005 · 352