Unit 14:: A Divided Postwar World
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Unit 14: A Divided Postwar World
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Abstract
Cracks in the Grand Alliance that defeated the Axis powers during World War II were evident early on in the uneasy collaboration between the Soviet Union and its democratic partners. They became more pronounced in 1945 at the Yalta (February) and Potsdam (July–August) conferences, where conflicting interests produced rival postwar blocs in Europe separated by what former British prime minister Winston Churchill described in 1946 as an “iron curtain.”
Contents
- Unit 1:: A Survey of the Premodern Worlds
- The Latin West and the Americas
- China and Its Periphery
- Islam and India
- A Survey of the Premodern Worlds - Review
- Unit 2:: Crisis and Recovery in Eurasia
- New Asian Empires
- The Collapse of the Mongol World
- From Crisis to Reformation in Christendom
- Crisis and Recovery in Eurasia - Review
- Unit 3:: Contact and Conquest
- The Spanish Conquest of Mexico
- Sugar and Slavery
- Spain and Portugal “Open” the Atlantic
- Contact and Conquest - Review
- Unit 4:: Worlds Entangled
- Mercantilism and World Trade
- Emergence of the Atlantic World
- Jesuits in the Ming World
- Worlds Entangled - Review
- Unit 5:: Empires of Splendor and Might
- Gunpowder Empires
- Unification of Japan
- The Rise of the Qing
- Empires of Splendor and Might - Review
- Unit 6:: The Birth of Modern Knowledge
- From Enlightenment to Revolution
- Destabilization of the Spiritual Worldview
- The Scientific Revolution
- The Birth of Modern Knowledge - Review
- Unit 7:: Reordering the World
- Modern Revolutions in North America
- Modern Revolutions in France and Latin America
- Napoléon and the Birth of a Nation
- Reordering the World - Review
- Unit 8:: Non-European Appropriations of Modernity
- The Late Ottoman Empire
- The Meiji Restoration
- Opium and Diplomacy
- Non-European Appropriations of Modernity - Review
- Unit 9:: Industrialism and Its After-effects
- Intellectual Responses to Industrial Modernity
- From Textiles to Steam Engines
- Karl Marx and the Communist Manifesto
- Industrialism and Its After-effects - Review
- Unit 10:: Nations and Empires in the Americas
- Taming a Savage Continent
- Banana Republics
- The Democratic Experiment
- Nations and Empires in the Americas - Review
- Unit 11:: The Triumph of Bourgeois Consciousness
- Modernism versus Modernity
- Science and Its Discontents
- Nationalism and Bourgeois Culture
- The Triumph of Bourgeois Consciousness - Review
- Unit 12:: New Imperialism
- Origins and Modes
- Case Studies in New Imperialism
- Prelude to War
- New Imperialism - Review
- Unit 13:: Competing Visions of Modernity
- Fascism
- The Great War
- Soviet Communism
- Competing Visions of Modernity - Review
- Unit 14:: A Divided Postwar World
- The Cold War in Latin America
- The Ideological Legacy of World War II
- The Middle East Crisis
- A Divided Postwar World - Review
- Unit 15:: Globalization
- Crises of Climate, Credit, and Historical Consciousness
- The Resurgence of East Asia
- Terrorism and Popular Culture
- Globalization - Review