Twentieth Century Europe

• • Modernity
  • Colonialism
  • The First World War
  • The Russian Revolution and Stalin's Russia
  • Fascist Italy
  • The Spanish Civil War
  • Weimar and Nazi Germany
  • The Second World War
  • The Holocaust
  • The Cold War and the fall of communism
  • Issues of migration and race in post-war Europe
  • Terrorism in postwar Europe

Equivalent subjects

You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:

• MAQ-MHIX220-Twentieth Century Europe (No longer available)

You must have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject:

• MAQ-MHIX1002-Revolutions, Nationalism and Exploitation in the Modern World, 1789-2001

Others

NCCW (pre-2020 units) MHIS321, HIST244, HIST270, HIST333, HIST370, MHIS220, MHIX220 Pre-requisite: 40cp at 1000 level or above OR (10cp in HIST or MHIS or MHIX units) NCCW (2020 and onwards) MHIS2020 Twentieth-Century Europe

Additional requirements

• Other requirements -

  Students who have an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion under Macquarie University's Academic Progression Policy are not permitted to enrol in OUA units offered by Macquarie University. Students with an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion who have enrolled in units through OUA will be withdrawn.

This subject was previously known as MHIX220 Twentieth Century Europe.

Was Europe indeed the 'dark continent' suggested by historian Mark Mazower? This unit offers a political, social, cultural and economic overview of Europe's 20th century relations with the wider world. We will trace European’s obsession with race and empire and consider how that gave rise to the First World War. In the second part, we address the crisis of European liberalism in the face of the Great Depression, Russian communism, and the rise of fascism and Nazism. We finish with an investigation of Europe’s postwar evolution in the context of the Cold War; the Americanisation of Western Europe and the effects of decolonisation and post-colonial immigration. Through a wide range of primary and secondary sources, class discussions, and scaffolded assessments students will develop their critical historical reading and writing skills.

• Annotated bibliography (15%)
• Research paper (45%)
• Secondary source analysis (25%)
• Online Discussion (15%)

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