Type of course: |
Elective (1 of 2) |
Language of instruction: |
Romanian |
Erasmus Language of instruction: |
English |
Name of lecturer: |
Sorin Arhire |
Seminar tutor: |
Sorin Arhire |
Form of education |
Full-time |
Form of instruction: |
Lecture |
Number of teaching hours per semester: |
36 |
Number of teaching hours per week: |
3 |
Semester: |
Summer |
Form of receiving a credit for a course: |
Grade |
Number of ECTS credits allocated |
3 |
Course 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 Entry Requirements:
World History of the 20th century.
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.
Teaching methods:
Lecture, conversation, exemplification.
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.
Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:
Written paper – interpretative essay – 60%; continuous assessment – 40%.
Recommended reading:
Kissinger, Henry,,
Diplomacy, Simon & Schuster
, New York
, 1994
, 912
McCauley, Martin,
Russia, America and the Cold War, 1949-1991,, Longman Limited
, London
, 1998
, 154
Gaddis, John Lewis,,
The Cold War: A New History, Penguin Press
, London
, 2005
, 352