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HS 375 Turning Points in the Twentieth-Century: From the New Imperialism to Globalization

This course focuses on the main turning points in the world’s “long twentieth-century”: Europe’s global empire-building, World War I, communist revolution in Russia, World War II, the Holocaust, decolonization and the rise of Third World countries, the sudden fall of communism, the rise of America to sole superpower status, the 9/11 attacks, globalization and the surging patterns of mass migration.