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This Unit is archived with an end date of 16/01/2020

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Learning outcomes

1.

Demonstrate an understanding of at least one period or culture of the past.

2.

Identify and interpret a wide variety of secondary and primary materials.

3.

Examine historical issues by undertaking research according to the methodological and ethical conventions of the discipline.

4.

Analyse historical evidence, scholarship and changing representations of the past.

5.

Construct an evidence-based argument or narrative in audio, digital, oral, visual or written form.

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Additional information

Unit content:

• Origins of the Cold War
• The division of Europe: The ‘iron curtain’ and the Berlin crises
• South-East Asia as superpower proxy war: The Korean and Vietnam conflicts
• The nuclear dimension
• Moments of crisis: Suez, Budapest, Prague
• Détente and Helsinki accords
• The role of ideology
• The rise and role of international organisations: the United Nations and the European Union
• The Cold War on a global scale: the African experience
• Gorbachev and the end of the Cold War