HIST 262 - America's Half Century:The US Since World War II

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Trinity College

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This survey examines the new era of American global hegemony following World War II as it defined international affairs and domestic life. Major topics include the Cold War, McCarthyism, the rise of American mass culture in the 50's and 60's, the Kennedy and Johnson Administrators, the Vietnam War, and the social movements of the 1960s and 1970s (including the Civil Rights, New Left, Black and Brown Power, and Women's and Gay Liberation Movements). We will also consider the major foreign policy challenges of Carter, Reagan, and Bush administrations with special emphasis on development in the Middle East and Latin America. In the last quarter of the course we will attempt to make sense of the state of global conflict since 9/11 through a study of the immediate historical antecedents to our contemporary crisis. 1.00 units, Lecture

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1.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.Trincoll.edu

Phone Number:

(860) 297-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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