THE CONFLICT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE SOVIET UNION.

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GROUP ONE: COLD WAR
GROUP TWO: DECOLONIZATION
GROUP THREE: NEOLIBERALISM
GROUP FOUR: JIHAD VS. MCWORLD
GROUP FIVE: POPULISM
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GROUP ONE: COLD WAR: TELL ME HOW DIFFERENT WORLD
VIEWS LED TO THE CONFLICT BETWEEN THE UNITED
STATES AND THE SOVIET UNION. TELL ME HOW THE COLD
WAR DIVIDED GERMANY AND EUROPE AND HOW WESTERN
EUROPE ACHIEVED PROSPERITY AND STABILITY. HOW DID
THE UNITED STATES AND THE SOVIET UNION COME TO THE
BRINK OF NUCLEAR WAR AND THEN FORMULATE RULES TO
MANAGE THEIR RIVALRY? WHAT CHANGES DID NIKITA
KHRUSHCHEV AND THEN LEONID BREZHNEV MAKE TO
SOVIET COMMUNISM?
GROUP TWO: DECOLONIZATION: TELL ME HOW BRITAIN,
FRANCE AND THE OTHER EUROPEAN POWERS ABANDONED
THEIR COLONIAL EMPIRES. WHAT PROBLEM HAS
POSTCOLONIAL AFRICA HAD TO FACE? HOW DID CHINA
UNDER MAO ZEDONG CHALLENGE SOVIET LEADERSHIP OF
THE COMMUNIST WORLD? HOW DID RICHARD NIXON AND
HENRY KISSINGER TRY TO FORGE A NEW BALANCE OF
WORLD POWER AND WHY DID THEY FAIL?
GROUP THREE: NEOLIBERALISM: HOW DID ECONOMIC
GROWTH BEGIN TO FALTER IN THE 1970’S AND TRIGGER A
REVIVAL OF FREE-MARKET ECONOMICS IN THE 1980’S?
HOW DID RONALD REAGAN AND MIKHAIL GORBACHEV END
THE COLD WAR? WHY DID COMMUNISM COLLAPSE IN THE
SOVIET UNION BUT SURVIVE AND TRANSFORM ITSELF IN
CHINA? DESCRIBE THE RISE AND FALL OF THE POSTWAR
JAPANESE ECONOMIC MIRACLE.
GROUP FOUR: JIHAD VS. MCWORLD: WHAT DO WE MEAN BY
GLOBALIZATION AND HOW DID IT COME ABOUT IN THE
1990’S? HOW DID THE UNITED STATES UNDER BILL CLINTON
BECOME THE ONLY SUPERPOWER? HOW SUCCESSFUL WAS
BORIS YELTSIN IN CREATING A DEMOCRATIC RUSSIA? HOW
DID CHINA BECOME AN ECONOMIC SUPERPOWER UNDER
JIANG ZEMIN? HOW DID THE ISRAEL-PALESTINE AND
SUNNI-SHIA CONFLICTS AND THE RISE OF AL QAEDA
SHAPE THE POLITICS OF THE MIDDLE EAST? HOW DID
GEORGE W. BUSH CONFRONT THE GLOBALIZATION OF
TERRORISM?
GROUP FIVE: POPULISM: DESCRIBE THE STEPS
EUROPEANS TOOK AFTER WORLD WAR II TO FORM AN
ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL UNION. HOW DID
ULTRANATIONALIST POLITICS BEGIN TO REVIVE IN THE
1980’S HOW HAS RUSSIA TURNED AWAY FROM FULL
DEMOCRACY UNDER VLADIMIR PUTIN? IN WHAT WAYS DOES
EUROPE’S NEW POPULISM REPRESENT A BACKLASH
AGAINST GLOBALIZATION? WHAT DOES TODAY’S POPULISM
HAVE IN COMMON WITH FASCISM AND WHERE DOES IT
DIFFER? WHY CAN WE DESCRIBE POPULISM AS ‘ILLIBERAL
DEMOCRACY’? HOW HAS THE ARAB SPRING OF 2011
IMPACTED NOT ONLY THE MIDDLE EAST BUT EUROPE AS
WELL?