1.3. Modern World History

Understand the key events and movements that shaped the modern world from the Renaissance to the end of the Cold War, including the significance of the Thirty Years War, Peace of Westphalia, and major geopolitical shifts.

1Why History Matters?

2The Renaissance and the Reformation in Europe

3The Emergence of the Modern Interstate System: The Thirty Years War and Peace of Westphalia

4The Road to the First World War

5After The First World War

6The Great Depression

7The Twenty-Year Crisis

8On the Brink of the Second World War

9The Ending of The Second World War

10The Post-War World Order: How the Marshall Plan and UN Reshaped Global Politics

11The Rise of the Bretton Woods Institutions

12When One Falls, They All Will Follow: The Domino Theory and the Cold War

13Cuban Missile Crisis

14Détente of the 1970-1990

15Decolonization and Development

16The Birth and Rise of the People’s Republic of China

17The End of the Cold War

18The Post-Cold War World Order

19Challenges to US Hegemony: Rising China and Russian Resurgence

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