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I want you to watch one (or both) of the embedded videos and discuss what role you think they played in the Cold War. Both films were either produced by or connected to the US Civil Defense Administration. I’m looking for about 200 words.
2) Throughout the course, four main themes have been emphasized: Power; Imperialism; Religious Faith; and Ideology. Other themes, such as race, gender, class, demographics, and environment have also been included. Throughout the course, many arguments have been made, but the class has been organized around two central arguments: 1) world history since 1700 has revolved around a continuing struggle for power between social groups, religious groups, nations, and economic interests; 2) Westernization has defined the past several centuries of world history. Westernization has created cultural contacts, ecological exchange, conflict, conquest, the building of empires, and the globalization of society. These themes and arguments have been in keeping with the instructor’s own theoretical views and biases. As a result, the course has been “Euro-centric” and may be misleading in that it makes it seem that the rest of the world only reacts to the West. Other problems with this approach can also be found. Some alternative theories are Globalization; world systems (economics!); feminism (history of patriarchal power); and Marxism (class conflict). Thus, the course has been designed as an “open narrative,” raising more questions than it answers, inviting the students to make their own conclusions.
Now, it is time for you, the student, to respond. Do you agree? Why or why not?
Were the four main themes the most important in modern world history? What other themes would you include? How and why or why not? Were the main arguments of the course persuasive? What other arguments might you make? Was power really so important? Religion? Imperialism? Ideology? Were faith and ideas really as significant as the instructor made them out to be?
However you choose to answer (agree, disagree, or partially so), be sure to address all relevant political, economic, social, cultural, environmental and religious factors and provide specific evidence to support your argument. I will be looking for primary sources (this could include the use of Things Fall Apart) for the evidence section. The more specifics that you bring in to support your argument, the better.
Answer the above question(s) in the following way: It is December 2024, and you (yourself) have been invited to make a speech before the United Nations and a world-wide audience on Zoom on the subject of Modern World History. What do you say? Where do you begin and end? What themes do you emphasize? What argument(s) do you make? What people, places and events do you include? You have the opportunity to be the world historian, what history will you write for your oration? Good Luck!!!!
Text book for question 2
· Bentley/Ziegler, Traditions & Encounters, Vol. II, From 1500 to the Present, 6th Ed.
Andrea/Overfield, The Human Record: Sources of Global History, vol. II 8th Ed.
Achebe, Things Fall Apart
· Link to andrea text book
