Europe: 1945 to the Present

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Covers the history of Europe from 1945 to the present. Readings highlight the post-World War II recovery; the politics of the memory of the war; the emergence of Cold War Europe; the process of decolonization; the political, social and cultural crises of the 1970s-1980s; the collapse of Communism in 1989-91; and the birth pangs and current crises of the European Union. Special attention will be paid to the case of divided and then re-unified Germany, which became, with the fall of the wall, the key symbol of Communism’s collapse and of European re-integration.