HIST391W

This course examines Germany's socioeconomic, political and cultural development during the Cold War. It examines the division of the country following the collapse of the Third Reich in 1945, the emergence of the capitalist Federal Republic in the West and the communist Democratic Republic in the East, and the factors that led to the collapse of the East and national reunification in 1990. The course raises questions about the essential features of democratic capitalism and totalitarian socialism, and it sets the German experience in a broad European context

All Years

Spring Semester