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Welcome to History 171D!

History 171D, The United States and the World Since 1945

Summer Session B, EC# 16493
MTWR 2-3:15 pm
Girvetz 1119

Instructor: George Fujii (gfujii@umail); HSSB 4231 (Office Hours: Tue and Wed, 12-1 pm, and by appointment)

Course Syllabus [PDF file; requires the free Adobe Reader to view or print]

How to Read Primary Source Documents- A Primer [PDF file]

Slides for the "Economics and the Early Cold War" lecture (8/13) [large PDF file]

Slides for the "Technology and Nuclear Weapons" lecture (8/28) [large PDF file]

Reading Assignments (subject to change in the event of unforseen circumstances) [printer-friendly PDF version]

• [Textbook]- Walter LaFeber. America, Russia, and the Cold War 1945-2006. 10 th ed. ISBN-10: 0073534668.
• [Reader]- Jussi M. Hanhimaki and Odd Arne Westad, eds. The Cold War: A History in Documents and Eyewitness Accounts. ISBN-10: 0199272808
• [LaFeber Website] LaFeber companion course website ( http://www.mhhe.com/lafeber )

Please complete reading assignments before the lecture to which they are assigned.

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Week One:

August 6 (M)- Introduction: What is the history of foreign relations?

August 7 (T)- The World in 1945: Prewar legacies and postwar visions

• [Textbook] Preface, Introduction, and Chapter 1
• [Reader] Introduction (ix-xvii); Chapter 1 (1-10; 15-17; 26-35)
• [LaFeber Website] The following documents from the Chapter 1 section:
• Roosevelt-Churchill Talks at the Atlantic Conference, August 11-14, 1941; The Atlantic Charter, August 1941
• The British Loan What It Means to Us
• Secretary of War Henry Stimson Memorandum to President Truman on postwar Germany
• President Harry S. Truman Restatement of Foreign Policy of the United States

August 8 (W)- The Origins of the Cold War

• [Textbook] Chapter 2; Chapter 3 (57-66)
• [Reader] Chapter 2 (36-40; 47-49; 50-52; 56-60; 62-63; 65-69); Chapter 3 (70-72; 82-87; 90-94)
• [LaFeber Website] The following documents from the Chapter 2 section:
• Secretary of State James F Byrnes Restatement of US Policy on Germany September 6 1946
• Henry A Wallace Vital Speeches of the Day The Way To Peace October 1 1946

August 9 (R)- Cold War Culture, Ideology, and McCarthyism

• [Textbook] Chapter 6 (137-149); Chapter 8 (182-184); Chapter 9 (196-197)
• [Reader] Chapter 13 (412-414; 416-418; 422-425)
• [Weblink] “The Red Scare Goes Hollywood” essay by Philip French
• [Weblink] The National Security Archive, “The Nixon-Presley Meeting, 21 December 1970,” (Read at least Documents 2 and 5).

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Week Two:

August 13 (M)- Economics and the Early Cold War

• [Textbook] Chapter 3
• [Reader] Chapter 3 (94-103); Chapter 4 (105-114; 115-122; 126-128)
• [LaFeber Website]The following documents from the Chapter 3 section:
  • President Harry S Truman - Address on Foreign Economic Policy - Delivered at Baylor University
  • Undersecretary of State - Dean Acheson - The Requirements of Reconstruction May 8, 1947
  • Soviet Foreign Minister V.M. Molotov - Equal Opportunity and Dollar Diplomacy 1946
  • Mr X - The Sources of Soviet Conduct - Foreign Affairs July 1947

August 14 (T)- Adversaries to Allies- Germany, Japan, and NATO

• [Textbook] Chapter 4; Chapter 6 (133-137)
• [Reader] Chapter 4 (128-136); Chapter 5 (137-138; 143-148; 151-167)

August 15 (W)- Flashpoints: From the Korean War to the Cuban Missile Crisis

• [Textbook]Chapter 5; Chapter 10 (231-237)
• [Reader]Chapter 6 (176-179; 185-188; 192-196; 202-203); Chapter 15 (483-487)
• [LaFeber Website] The following document from the Chapter 10 section
• President Kennedy - Radio and Television Report on the Soviet Arms Buildup in Cuba

August 16 (R)- The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1975

• [Textbook]Chapter 7 (166-175); Chapter 9 (225-228); Chapter 10 (239-265)
• [Reader] Chapter 7 (209-220; 223-225; 227-241)

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Week Three:

August 20 (M)- Decolonization, Peripheries, and the Cold War

• [Textbook] Chapter 7
• [Reader]Chapter 11 (347-367)

August 21 (T)- The Burdens of Power- Superpowers and Alliance Politics

• [Textbook] Chapter 8
• [Reader] Chapter 8 (242-244; 247-257; 259-266; 268-272)

August 22 (W)- Recap and Discussion

August 23 (R)- MIDTERM

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Week Four:

August 27 (M)- Neighborly Relations- The United States in the Americas

• [Textbook] Chapter 7 (157-165); Chapter 9 (212-223
• [Reader] Chapter 12 (379-387; 401-405; 407-411); Chapter 14 (452-457)
• [LaFeber Website] The following documents from the Chapter 7 section:
• Secretary of State John Foster Dulles - International Communism in Guatemala
• Philip B Taylor Jr - The Guatemalan Affair - A Critique of United States Foreign Policy

August 28 (T)- Technology, Nuclear Weapons, and the Cold War

• [Textbook] Chapter 7 (158-161); Chapter 8 (182-184); Chapter 9 (201-205)
• [Reader] Chapter 9 (273-275; 277-278; 280-293; 304-310)

August 29 (W)- The United States and the Middle East

• [Textbook]Chapter 7 (161-163); Chapter 8 (187-196)
• [LaFeber Website] The following documents from the Chapter 8 section:
• President Eisenhower and Advisors Discuss U.S. Options during the Suez and Hungarian Crises
• President Eisenhower - Special Message to the Congress on the Situation in the Middle East

August 30 (R)- Western European Integration

• [Textbook] Chapter 10 (238-239)
• [Reader] Chapter 10 (312-316; 319-321; 324-326; 328-329; 336-338; 342-346)

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Week Five:

September 3 (M)- Labor Day Holiday. NO CLASS.

September 4 (T)- Nixon, Kissinger, and Détente

• [Textbook] Chapter 11
• [Reader] Chapter 15 (481-483; 493-497; 503-512)
• [LaFeber Website] The following document from the Chapter 11 section:
• President Richard Nixon - Remarks to Midwestern News Media - July 6, 1971

September 5 (W)- Carter and new directions in US foreign policy?

• [Textbook] Chapter 12 (301-318)
• [Reader]Chapter 16 (516-518; 531-535; 537-542; 44-547; 550-552); Chapter 17 (553-558; 561-568)
• [LaFeber Website] The following documents from the Chapter 12 section:
• President Carter discusses the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, January 4, 1980
• President Carter discusses the Afghanistan and Iranian crises, January 20, 1980

September 6 (R)- Challenging the Cold War- the 1980s

• [Textbook] Chapter 12 (318-346)
• [Reader] Chapter 17 (568-571; 573-588)
  DISTRIBUTION OF TAKE-HOME FINAL QUESTIONS

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Week Six:

September 10 (M)- Reagan, Bush, and the End of the Cold War(?)

• [Textbook] Chapter 13
• [Reader] Chapter 18 (590-599; 602-607; 609-619; 621-627)

September 11 (T)- The End of History? Clinton and the Rise of the Free Market

• [Textbook] Chapter 14
• [Reader] Chapter 19 (629-635; 642-643; 651-654; 660-663)
• [LaFeber Website] The following documents from the Chapter 14 section:
• Anthony Lake, National Security Advisor to the President, From Containment to Enlargement, 1993.
• President William J. Clinton: Remarks to the National Townhall Meeting on Trade, November 10, 1998

September 12 (W)- Nationalism and Globalization

• [Textbook] Chapter 15

September 13 (R)- Concluding Thoughts and Discussion- TAKE-HOME FINAL DUE!

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