Syllabus
V letním semestru se výklad a seminární práce zaměřují na situaci v německojazyčné oblasti po skončení druhé světové války. Předmět je zakončen zápočtem, k jehož složení je třeba odevzdat nejpozději týden před koncem semestru seminární práci ke zvolenému tématu.
Téma je třeba si zvolit do 15. 03. 2024 a nahlásit vyučujícímu.
Annotation
The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the history of German-speaking countries from the end of World War II to the present. The course focuses on the issue of European post-war development after the Second World War, on the political division of the world into spheres of victorious powers (mainly the USA and the USSR) and its reflection in Germany, through which the political border of the divided world ran.
From 1945 to 1949, the course focuses on the division of Europe after World War II and the situation in Germany, divided into four occupation zones. It follows the different approach and deepening contradictions between the Western powers and the USSR, which led to the establishment of two German states of different political and economic orientation in 1949.
It follows the history of the Federal Republic in two basic stages: from the establishment of the state to the mid-1960s, i.e. the period of the so-called economic miracle and socio-political difficulties with the denazification of the country, to the first social upheavals with the coming to terms with the country's Nazi past. The second stage follows the period of large political coalitions from 1966, through the upheavals of the system by the activities of radical left-wing guerrillas in the 1970s and the opening of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Eastern Bloc, through the large-scale peace and anti-nuclear movements of the 1980s, to the era of Chancellor Kohl and the reunification of Germany in 1990.
The course also deals with the issue of the GDR in the years of its existence (1949-1990), from stabilization efforts to the incipient economic and political disintegration of the country in the 1980s and its subsequent demise. The period after 1990 is devoted to the difficult convergence of the two parts and the issue of the integration of a strong united Germany into European structures.
In Austria and Switzerland, the course focuses on the issue of neutrality and the specific development of both countries after 1945. The content of the course is therefore focused on important historical events of German-speaking countries, in a pan-European context.
Within the course, there are discussions on current aspects of the post-war development of German-speaking countries, especially Germany.