Course No. 8090 (48 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture) Taught by Pamela Radcliff University of California at San Diego Ph.D., Columbia University 1. Framing the 20th Century 2. The Opening Act—World War I 3. Framing the Peace—The Paris Peace Treaties 4. Intellectual Foundations—Nietzsche and Freud 5. Art and the Post-War "Crisis of Meaning" 6. Gender Crisis—The "Woman Question" 7. The Origins of "Mass Society" 8. Defining Mass Society and Its Consequences 9. Crisis of Capitalism—The Great Depression 10. Communist Ideology—From Marx to Lenin 11. The Rise of Fascism 12. Communist Revolution in Russia 13. The Totalitarian State? Nazi Germany 14. The Totalitarian State? The Soviet Union 15. China—The Legacy of Imperialism 16. The Chinese Revolution 17. India—The Legacy of Imperialism 18. India—The Road to Independence 19. Mexico—The Roots of Revolution 20. The Mexican Revolution and Its Consequences 21. Japan—The Path to Modernization 22. Japan—A New Imperial Power 23. The Pacific War 24. The European War 25. The Holocaust 26. Existentialism in Post-War Europe 27. Origins of the Cold War 28. The Cold War in American Society 29. Science and the State in Cold War America 30. The Welfare State 31. The Process of Decolonization 32. Challenges for Post-Colonial Societies 33. Competing Nationalisms—The Middle East 34. Development Models—Communist China 35. Development Models—Democratic India 36. The Authoritarian Development State—Japan 37. The Japanese Model—Available for Export? 38. Latin America—Dictatorship and Democracy 39. Hard Cases—Africa 40. An African Case Study—Nigeria 41. A Generation of Protests—Civil Rights 42. A Generation of Protests—1968 43. Global Women 44. The Rise of Fundamentalist Politics 45. Communism—From Reform to Collapse, 1956–90 46. The "End of History"? 47. Globalization and Its Challenges 48. A New World Order?