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The Modern World, Part Two: Global History since 1910
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 7 Sequences
- Introductive Level
- Subtitles in Romanian, Spanish
Course details
Syllabus
- Week 1 - Crackup (1905-1917)
- Week 2 - New Orders Emerge (1917-1930)
- Week 3 - The Crisis of the World (1930-1940)
- Week 4 - Total War and Aftermath (1940-1950)
- Week 5 - The Return of Wartime (1950-1968)
- Week 6 - Decay and Renaissance (1968-1991)
- Week 7 - The Next Phase (1991-2013)
Prerequisite
Instructors
Philip Zelikow
White Burkett Miller Professor of History
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