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| 0621-1079-01 | United States From the Civil War to the Cold War | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 2.0
Course description
This course discusses main events and the major developments that American society underwent in the last decades of the 19th century, up until the rise to the position of a super-power by the end of World War II. It is a time in which the United States became a modern state in every sense of this term: financial growth, industrialization, urbanization and the formation of new social structures and systems. It is also a time in which the United States began its military and political involvement in the affairs of other countries, and enjoyed the fruits and products of thousands of migrating scientists, intellectuals and artists. Some of the subjects that will be discussed are: the Reconstruction Era; industrialization, migration and urbanization; reform movements; the Progressive Era; the 1920s; the Great Depression and New Deal; U.S involvement in World War II. The course will be conducted in the form of a lecture, followed by a final exam based on the lectures and the reading materials