Module Identifier | IP10510 | ||
Module Title | INTERNATIONAL HISTORY 1: FROM YALTA TO VIETNAM 1945-1968 | ||
Academic Year | 2001/2002 | ||
Co-ordinator | Professor Mick Cox | ||
Semester | Semester 1 | ||
Mutually Exclusive | GW10510 | ||
Course delivery | Lecture | 20 Hours (20 x 1 hour) | |
Seminars / Tutorials | 5 Hours (5 x 1 hour) | ||
Assessment | Essay | 1 x 1,500 word essay. | 30% |
Exam | 2 Hours | 70% |
- explain the rise of the USA and USSR to international pre-eminence.
- understand the different theories of the post-war international system.
- compare and contrast the impact of the Cold War in Western Europe and Asia.
- explain the rise of the Third World.
- discuss the origins and consequences of the arms race.
- understand the political economy of the Cold War.
- describe the main changes in international communism after 1953.
- explain the origins and outcome of the United States intervention in Vietnam.
- evaluate the main changes in the structure of the world order between the end of World War 2 and the Vietnam War.