HIST 25.03 The United States and the World since 1945

This course examines U.S. relations with the wider world during the Cold War and the post-Cold War era. In addition to America’s global rivalry with the Soviet Union, students will investigate American responses to decolonization, globalization and the emergence of global norms of human rights. They will also study U.S. interventions in “Third World” nations such as Cuba, Guatemala and Vietnam, as well as U.S. efforts to exercise unprecedented forms of global hegemony in the post-Cold War period.