ADHS 2320 Remaking Europe - Marshall Plan to Brexit

This course is an examination of European history since the end of World War Two. In this course, students will analyze how the politics, culture, and society of both Western and Eastern Europe were transformed after 1945. Topics covered include the end of World War Two; emergence of Cold War; decolonization; the economic, political, and cultural forces integral to the development of the European Union; the fall of communism; internal migration and its effects on relations between European states; the role of economics, politics, culture, and migration in facilitating the path to the decision by the people of Britain to leave the edifice of the European Union (Brexit). Special focus is placed on identities and interests of individual European countries, how these identities and interests have changed since 1945, and how these changes have affected the European experiment.