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US Domestic Policy since 1945

Code Cours
2324-FLSH-LCE-EN-3001
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Establishment
FLSH - Faculté des Lettres & Sciences Humaines
Language of instruction
French, English
This course occurs in the following program(s)
Bachelor of Arts in the Humanities - Foreign Languages, Foreign Literature and Civilisations; English Specialityn - Crédits ECTS:
Training officer(s)
June Srichinda
Period
S5

Présentation

Goal
Acquire an understanding of the key historical moments in the United States in the Cold War and Post-Cold War period;
Develop ability to explain the cause and consequences of government decisions;
Learn to analyse and comment on primary and secondary documents;
Perfect oral and written skills in English.
Presentation
The course focuses on the domestic policy of the United States from the end of the World War Two to September 11, 2001, with a focus on the Eisenhower, Johnson, Nixon and Reagan administrations. Course units are divided as follows:
- The Cold War
- Affluence and Conformity in the Eisenhower Period
- The New Frontier
- The War on Poverty
- The Civil Rights Movement
- The Sixties and the Counter Culture
- The Nixon Presidency
- Reaganomics and the New Right
- Consequences of Reaganomics
- The Clinton Interlude
- The Bush Era

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Bibliography

CHAFE, William H. <i>The Unfinished Journey: America Since World War II</i> (Oxford University Press, 2002)|| CHAFE, William H. SITKOFF, Harvard, and BAILEY, Beth, eds. <i>A History of Our Time: Readings in Postwar America</i> (Oxford University Press, 2007)|| FRASER, Steve &amp; Gary GERSTLE, eds. <i>The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980</i> (Princeton University Press, 1999)|| LAFEBER, Walter <i>America, Russia, and the Cold War 1945-2002</i> (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002)|| TINDALL &amp; Shi, <i>America: A Narrative History</i> (Norton)||