歐洲史：現代歐洲史，1815 年 - 2023 年

An examination of Europe from 1815-2019.  This course will emphasize continent-wide developments and ideas, including the revolutionary period, the Industrial Revolution, imperialism, the success and failure of European efforts to regulate the international system, the rise of nationalism, the role of ideologies like liberalism, socialism and conservatism, and the increasing diplomatic and internal tensions that led to the First World War. The course will also explore the Russian Revolution and the peace treaties, the rise of dictatorships leading to World War II, decolonization, the Cold War through the collapse of Communism, the growth of socialism, the welfare state, and the European Economic Community.

HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE, 1815-2019 
I - V 	1815-1848 
-	introduction to History of Modern Europe
-	the Congress of Vienna and the Concert of Europe
-	the agricultural and industrial revolutions
-      the Revolutions of 1848
-	national Unification in Italy and Germany

VI - VIII    1871-1918
-	nineteenth-Century European Civilization 
-	the Age of Imperialism
-	the First World War

IX - XII   1919-1945
-	between the Two World Wars
-	the Second World War

XIII - XV	1945-2019
-	the Cold War
-	the end of the Cold War
-	new beginnings 

Questions for consideration: 

What is nationalism?
How did nationalism affect the Habsburg Empire? 
Why did Marxism become so influential among European socialists?
How did industrialization in Europe differ from industrialization in the United States?  
What was the New Imperialism? 
What were the two alliance systems that faced each other in Europe before 1914?
What caused the outbreak of World War I in 1914?
Why did the Versailles settlement leave Germany bitter?
What were the main events between 1918 and 1939 that led to World War II?
What were the causes of the Cold War?
Why did communist regimes collapse so easily in Eastern Europe in 1989?
What problems has Europe faced since the fall of Communism?