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After studying this chapter, students should understand and be able to discuss the following:
  1. The differences between modernism and late modernism
  2. The causes and characteristics of the two postwar economic and political systems of the superpowers and their allies
  3. The major economic and political trends among the nations of western Europe
  4. Domestic developments within the Soviet Union from 1945 to 1970
  5. Domestic developments within the United States from 1945 to 1970
  6. The origins and course of the cold war
  7. The causes and results of the emergence of the third world states
  8. The causes of the changes in international relations since 1960s
  9. The course and results of Soviet-American relations from 1960 to 1970
  10. The major intellectual and cultural movements and their leaders since 1945
  11. The renewal of feminism, its chief advocates and their messages
  12. The discoveries and inventions in science and technology and their impact on Western culture from 1945 to 1970
  13. The characteristics of existentialism, its major voices, and representative literature
  14. The development of the novel and poetry after World War II
  15. The rise of black consciousness, its chief advocates and their messages
  16. The trends and changes in the theater after World War II
  17. The late-modern novel and novelists
  18. The key developments, important innovations, and leading composers in late modernist music
  19. The rise and meaning of mass culture





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