The Age of World War: World History 1914 - 1945 Main Menu World Around 1914: Gandhi The World in the Era of Nationalism and Imperialism (1848-1914) The First World War The Long Russian Revolution (1917 – 1929) The Decline of the West? Europe from 1919 – 1929 A New Middle East: The Rise of the Middle East State System China Between Qing Collapse and WWII Latin America Between Boom and Bust (1911-1929) Africa Under Colonial Rule: Politics and Race from 1914‐1939 The United States from The First World War to the Great Depression Three Varieties of Radicalism in the 1930s: Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia, and Imperial Japan Three Responses to Modernity: Ho Chi Minh, Ibn Saud and Getulio Vargas The Second World War

World History in the Age of the World Wars (1914 - 1945)

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This course provides a survey of key military, political, social, and cultural developments in world history beginning with the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 and ending with the allied victory in 1945 and the beginnings of the Cold War. The course examines, among other topics, extremism in Russia, Germany and Japan, the Indian independence movement, westernization and reaction in the Middle East, the collapse of the Qing Dynasty in China, and European and American imperialism. Important social and political concepts like colonialism, nationalism, westernization, communism and fascism will be explored in their historical contexts.