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7. Citizens! The French Revolution 1789 - 94
A study of the collapse of the Ancien Régime in France and the growing extremism of the post-revolutionary governments, illustrating the themes of authority, rights and revolution.
The Ancien Régime on the eve of the revolution: social classes; new ideas; government difficulties; popular grievances.
The Revolution of 1789 - 91: the States-General; claims of the Third Estate; the National Assembly and the Tennis Court Oath; the fall of the Bastille; revolution in the country; the march on Versailles; the Declaration of the Rights of Man; the new government of France.
History: Intermediate 2 Course 12
The end of the monarchy: grievances of peasants and sans-culottes; the flight to Varennes; war with Europe; overthrow of the monarchy; victory at Valmy; the National Convention; the execution of Louis XVI.
The struggle for power: inflation and popular unrest; the Paris Commune; Committees of Public Safety and General Security; strengthening of central government; the Terror; purges of left and right; the guillotine; fall of Robespierre in Thermidor.

8. Cavour, Garibaldi and the Making of Italy 1815 - 70
A study of the process of unification in Italy, illustrating themes of identity, conflict and power.
The reasons for the growth of Italian Nationalism: division into states; the influence of Napoleon Bonaparte; the Vienna Settlement and the rise of nationalist sentiment; the Carbonari; the revolutions of 1820 and 1831 and the reasons for failure; Mazzini and Young Italy; Piedmont and Pope Pius IX.
1848 - the year of revolutions in Italy: the events of 1848 - 49 and their lessons for the nationalist movement.
Cavour and the modernisation of Piedmont: involvement in the Crimean War; the Pact of Plombières; the war of 1859 - 60 and the peace of Villafranca.
Garibaldi and the Thousand; international attitudes towards Italian nationalism as reflected in their actions during the Sicilian campaign; the completion of the kingdom.
Assessment of the contributions of Cavour and Garibaldi to the achievement of unification.

9. Iron and Blood? Bismarck and the Creation of the German Empire 1815 - 71
A study of the process of unification in Germany, illustrating themes of identity, conflict and power.
The reasons for the growth of German Nationalism: the Vienna Settlement and the rise of nationalist sentiment; the Zollverein; growth of Prussian power; Austro-Prussian rivalry.
1848 - the year of revolutions in Germany; the reasons for failure of the Frankfurt Parliament; relations between Austria and Prussia 1849 - 61.
Bismarck’s appointment as Minister-President; relations with the parliament and the military; the debate over his aims in foreign policy.
The wars of unification: Bismarck’s methods of isolating his opponents and manipulating opportunities; the war with Denmark and its results; the dispute with Austria over the treatment of Holstein; the war of 1866; Bismarck’s negotiations with Napoleon III; the Spanish candidature; the Franco-Prussian War and the proclamation of the German Empire.
Assessment of Bismarck and of his contribution to the achievement of unification.

10. The Red Flag: Lenin and the Russian Revolution 1894 - 1921
A study of the collapse of imperial rule in Russia and the establishment of Communist government, illustrating themes of ideas, conflict and power.
Imperial Russia 1894 - 1917: the Tsarist government; the role of the Russian Church; class divisions in Russia; reasons for the backwardness of Russian agriculture and industry; grievances of the peasantry and industrial workers; the Russification of National Minorities.
Challenges to the Tsar’s power: challenges from revolutionary groups; the 1905 Revolution; political changes since 1905 - the Dumas and Stolypin’s reforms.
Russia and the First World War: effects of military defeat and economic hardship; Rasputin and the growing unpopularity of the regime; the February Revolution of 1917; reasons for the failure of the Provisional Government under Kerensky.
The Bolshevik seizure of power: Lenin’s return and the April Theses; reasons for the success of the October Revolution; the Civil War 1917 - 21; explanation of Bolshevik victory; nature of the Soviet state.

11. Free at Last? Race Relations in the USA 1918 - 68
A study of the development of race relations in the USA during the years 1918 - 68, illustrating themes of ideas, identity and power.
The USA at the end of the First World War: the social, political and economic status of different ethnic groups in the USA; the ‘Jim Crow’ laws; changing attitudes towards immigrants during the 1920s; the attitudes and activities of the Ku Klux Klan.
Growing demand for civil rights after 1945: reasons for this growth; peaceful and violent activities of civil rights and black radical protest movements during the 1950s and 1960s - the roles of Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael and Malcolm X; response of state and federal authorities to these campaigns; assessment of the impact of the campaigns on US society.

12. The Road to War 1933 - 39
A study of Nazi foreign policy 1933 - 39 and the steps leading to the outbreak of war, illustrating themes of ideology, aggression, appeasement and power.
The ideas of Nazism: racism and the claim of Aryan supremacy, anger over Versailles, Living Space (Lebensraum).
Foreign policy in practice: rearmament, reoccupation of the Rhineland, the Anschluss, the crisis in Czechoslovakia and the Munich agreement; the Polish crisis and the declaration of war.
Great Power responses to German actions: the policy of appeasement and reasons for its adoption - horror of war, fear of aerial warfare, belief in persuasion, lack of military preparation, distrust between former allies; attempts to deal with German demands, especially over Czechoslovakia; decision to resist further aggression.
Assessment of the responsibility for the war and of the effectiveness of the policy of appeasement.

13. In the Shadow of the Bomb: The Cold War 1945 - 85
A study of relationships between East and West, examining reasons for tension and attempts to resolve areas of conflict, focusing on themes of ideas, confrontation and power.
NATO and the Warsaw Pact: political beliefs, military rivalry and mutual suspicion; effects of the development of nuclear weapons on relationships.
Areas of superpower rivalry 1960 - 70: Berlin - reasons for importance, building of the Berlin Wall, impact on international relations; Cuba - origins and events of the crisis, impact on international relations; Vietnam - reasons for United States involvement and for failure to defeat the Vietcong; changing views on the war in the United States; impact on international relations.
Attempts at détente: reasons for changing attitudes between the USA and the USSR; SALT and other agreements.

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