HISTORY 595: LATER MODERN EUROPE: THE ORIGINS AND EARLY PHASES OF THE COLD WAR

Tentative Week-by-Week List of Report Topics and Themes for the Seminar

Week 7: THE ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR--VICTORY AND DISCORD (2/24).

Ansel Barnet--"The Soviet Union and the War in the Pacific"

Todd Saint Pé--"Partisans and the Sovietization of Yugoslavia in World War II"

Stephanie Smith--"The Battle of Athens, December 1944-January 1945"

Week 8: THE EARLY PHASES OF THE COLD WAR--TERRITORIAL AND ECONOMIC EXPANSION OF THE SUPER POWERS (3/3).

Patricia Parker--"Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech"

Week 9: THE EARLY PHASES OF THE COLD WAR--THE SOVIETIZATION OF EASTERN EUROPE AND THE WESTERN REPONSE (3/10).

Nicholas Pappas--"The Sovietization of Former Axis Allies"

Todd Saint Pé--"The Sovietization of Czechoslovakia"

Week 10: THE EARLY PHASES OF THE COLD WAR--THE GREEK CIVIL WAR AND THE SOVIET-YUGOSLAV CONFLICT (3/24).

Amy Muehsler--"The Tito-Stalin Split"

Nicholas Pappas--"The Tito-Stalin Spit and the Greek Civil War"

Week 12: THE EARLY PHASES OF THE COLD WAR--THE PROBLEM OF GERMANY AND THE BERLIN BLOCKADE (4/7).

Stephanie Smith--"The Occupation Zones of Germany"

Todd Saint Pé--"The Economic Amalgamation of West German Occupation Zones"

Patricia Parker--"The Berlin Blockade and Airlift"

Week 13: THE EARLY PHASES OF THE COLD WAR--THE ATOMIC BOMB AND THE COLD WAR (4/14).

Ansel Barnet--"The Development of the Atomic Bomb"

Amy Muehsler--"The Strategic Purpose of the Atomic Bomb"

Patricia Parker--"The Atomic Bomb as a Show of Power"

Week 14: THE EARLY PHASES OF THE COLD WAR--DECOLONIZATION AND THE COLD WAR (4/21).

Amy Muehsler--"The Issue of the PRC in the UN"

James Speed--"Vietnam and French Indo-China in the Early Cold War

Week 15: A SUMMING UP (4/28).

Richard Maxey--"The American Atomic Monopoly and the Cold War"

Stephanie Smith--"Propaganda and Culture in the Early Cold War"