HIST103: World History in the Early Modern and Modern Eras (1600-Present)

9.3: Global Reach of the Cold War

• 9.3.1: Atomic Arms Race

  • National Science Digital Library: "The Cold War: A Brief History"

    Read this page.
    

• 9.3.2: Revolutionary Politics in the West

  • Dr. Steven Kreis "1968: The Year of the Barricades"

    Read this lecture.

• 9.3.3: The Long Road to European Unity

  • Bethel University: Christopher Gehrz's "The Search for a Third Way"

    In this lecture, Christopher Gehrz focuses on European nations' efforts to rebuild and reorganize their economies and societies following World War II. He discusses western European efforts to pursue a "Third Way" between the Cold War policies of the United States and the Society Union. He also addresses efforts by western European nations to create democratic public welfare states and socialist economies. He concludes by tracing the development of the European Economic Community and other efforts to unify Europe economically and socially, and he discusses Soviet reactions to growing public dissatisfaction in Communist Eastern Europe.