History of the USA - AAA100072

• Title: Dějiny USA
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2012
• Semester: winter
• Points: 4
• E-Credits: 2
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: Czech
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Guarantor: PhDr. Vít Fojtek, Dr., Ph.D.
• Interchangeability : AAA130140
• Is interchangeable with: AAA130140

Annotation

English

Last update: UAAZNOJE (04.03.2004)

OBJECTIVES
The lecture offers a survey of the history of the United States, from the time of its origin to the present.

PROGRAM
1.Colonial America 1580-1750
Discoveries. Colonial Roots. The Road to Revolution.
2.Revolutionary America, 1750-1815
The Revolution. Washington, Jefferson, Franklin. Transition to Jacksonian Era. War of 1812.
3.Democratic America, 1815-1850
Monroe Doctrine. Federalists, Republicanism, Sectionalism. Jackson. Manifest Destiny. The Old South.
4.America and the Civil War, 1850-1870
Crisis of the Union. The War and Lincoln
5.Industrial America, 1870-1912
Reconstruction.
6.Industrialization.
Post War Expansion. Urbanization. Immigration.
7.America as a "melting pot", 1912-1929
Wilson. World War I. "Isolationism", "Normalcy" and "Depression"
8.America as a Superpower, 1929-1945
From Isolation to Global War. New Deal. F.D. Roosevelt. World War II.
9.America and the Cold War, 1945-1961
Truman. War in Korea, "Containment". Deadlock in Eisenhower Years.
10.America as a country that solves and makes problems, 1960-1969
Kennedy and Johnson: From New Frontiers through Great Society to Vietnam
11.America: Rise and Fall of Détente, 1969-1980
Rebellion and Reaction. Nixon and Watergate, Democratic intermezzo: Jimmy Carter
12.America: From Cold War to Old War, 1980-1989
From Collapse of Détente to Fall of Iron Curtain. Reagan and Rebirth of American Self-confidence
13.America in the Post-Cold War Era, 1989-
New World Order? Problems after the End of Bipolar World

MATERIALS
Tindall, George Brown and Shi, David E., America: a narrative history, New York, London, W.W. Norton & Co., 1993.
Purvis, Thomas L., Encyklopedie dějin USA, Praha, Ivo Železný, 1999.
LaFeber Walter, The American Age. United States Foreign Policy at Home and Abroad since 1750, New York, London, W.W. Norton & Co., 1989.
Johnson, Paul, Dějiny amerického národa, Praha, Academia,2000.

NOTE
The Lectures are selective and do not provide a complete survey of the History of the USA.

ASSESSMENT
Oral examination based on knowledge of the topics and problems discussed in the lecture.

Czech

Last update: UAAZNOJE (17.07.2006)

Přednáška nabízí souhrnný přehled novodobých amerických dějin. Jejím cílem je seznámit studenty se základní problematikou amerických dějin od počátku anglické kolonizace přes občanskou válku, vstup USA do světového dění v roli mocnosti ve 20. století až po současnost. Důraz je rovnoměrně rozložen mezi vnitřní a zahraniční politikou. Přednáška je vedena v anglickém jazyce.

Literature

Last update: UAAZNOJE (27.05.2008)

Tindall, George Brown and Shi, David E., America: a narrative history (New York, London: W.W. Norton & Co., 1993)

Purvis, Thomas L., Encyklopedie dějin USA (Praha: Ivo Železný, 1999)

LaFeber Walter, The American Age. United States Foreign Policy at Home and Abroad since 1750 (New York, London: W.W. Norton & Co., 1989)

Johnson, Paul, Dějiny amerického národa (Praha: Academia, 2000)

Teaching methods

Last update: UAAZNOJE (27.05.2008)

přednáška

Syllabus

Last update: UAAZNOJE (27.05.2008)

PROGRAM

1.Colonial America 1580-1750

Discoveries. Colonial Roots. The Road to Revolution.

2.Revolutionary America, 1750-1815

The Revolution. Washington, Jefferson, Franklin. Transition to Jacksonian Era. War of 1812.

3.Democratic America, 1815-1850

Monroe Doctrine. Federalists, Republicanism, Sectionalism. Jackson. Manifest Destiny. The Old South.

4.America and the Civil War, 1850-1870

Crisis of the Union. The War and Lincoln

5.Industrial America, 1870-1912

Reconstruction.

6.Industrialization.

Post War Expansion. Urbanization. Immigration.

7.America as a "melting pot", 1912-1929

Wilson. World War I. "Isolationism", "Normalcy" and "Depression"

8.America as a Superpower, 1929-1945

From Isolation to Global War. New Deal. F.D. Roosevelt. World War II.

9.America and the Cold War, 1945-1961

Truman. War in Korea, "Containment". Deadlock in Eisenhower Years.

10.America as a country that solves and makes problems, 1960-1969

Kennedy and Johnson: From New Frontiers through Great Society to Vietnam

11.America: Rise and Fall of Détente, 1969-1980

Rebellion and Reaction. Nixon and Watergate, Democratic intermezzo: Jimmy Carter

12.America: From Cold War to Old War, 1980-1989

From Collapse of Détente to Fall of Iron Curtain. Reagan and Rebirth of American Self-confidence

13.America in the Post-Cold War Era, 1989-

New World Order? Problems after the End of Bipolar World