CZS51 History of Central Europe


Lecturer: Mgr. Jana Musilová


Topics


1. Intoduction, general information about the course. Brief introduction to the geografy, culture
and policy of Central Europe. What does Central Europe mean? (Europe intermédiaire, Mittellage and
Mitteleuropa).

2. Continuation   – previous lecture

3. Franciz II. and Empire of Austria. Napoleonic Wars. The Congress of Vienna Holly Alliance.
Revolution 1830 and 1848 in Habsburg´s Monarchy. Habsburg Authoritarianism and Nationalism in
Monarchy. Austria-Hungary - the Dual Monarchy. Formation of German Empire.


4. Habsburg´s Monarchy and Germany before the First War World: Sarajevo Assassination of Archduke
Francis Ferdinand and beginning of the war. The First World war. Resistance. Great October
Socialist Revolution. Results of the First World War: Overthrown of Habsburg´s Monarchy, Paris
Peace Conference 1919, succession States. League of Nations.

5. Central Europe before the Second World War. Poland, Hungary, Germany

6. Recapitulate and Mid Term Test.

7. The Second World in the region of CE

8. Central Europe after the Second World War. Iron Curtain, Cold War.

9. Prague Spring, Occupation of Czechoslovakia, L. Walesa and Solidarity, Kadar´s Communism, Second
Berlin’s crises, Berlin’s Wall…

10. Fall of the Iron Curtain.

11. Central Europe after 1989. NATO, Eastern Enlargement, Central Europe and EU.

12. Final recapitulation and test.