HIST 435 — Aspects of World History: 1914-1945
History · University of Ghana
This course will include a brief introduction of the causes and effects of the First World War from around 1907, Topical events in World history: 1919-1950; the Versailles Treaty and the League of Nations – its structure, aims, achievements and failures, Russian communism: 1917-1939, Hitler and Nazism; Mussolini and Fascism, World Economic Depression: 1929- 1933, the Commonwealth of Nations; the Statute of West-minister (1930), the world situation in 1939: causes of tension in Europe and outbreak of the Second World War, the role of the U.S.A. and Japan in the War Colonisation of Africa to 1950 and the role of Africa in the Second World War and the structure and aims of the United Nations.
- Credits
- 3
Other courses on this programme
- HIST 213 — Africa and the Wider World in the 19th Century
- HIST 214 — Africa in the International Setting in the 20th century
- HIST 322 — Ghana in the 19th and the 20th Centuries
- HIST 324 — History of Europe, 1798 - 1945
- HIST 328 — Economic History of West Africa: 1890 to 1960
- HIST 431 — History of Modern China and Japan, ca. 1800 - 1900
- HIST 434 — History of Modern China and Japan since 1900
- HIST 436 — History Modern Russia & U.S.A: 1860-1939
- HIST 438 — Aspects of World History since 1945
- HIST 111 — Earliest Civilizations
- HIST 112 — Selected Topics in World History
- HIST 211 — Historiography
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Start freeCourse details from University of Ghana Volume 2 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Humanities (2017).