History of England

1. Ancient Britain. The earliest human settlements in the British Isles. Celtic migrations and civilization. Roman conquest and rule. Beginnings of Christianity.

2. Anglo-Saxon England. Germanic invasions. Christianization. Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy. Viking raids and Danish rule. Social structure of the country.

3. The Age of Normans. Norman conquest and its consequences. Social and cultural characteristics.

4. The Anjou-Plantagenet dynasty. Magna Carta Libertatum. Beginnings of Parliament. Relationships with Wales and Scotland.

5. Hundred Years' War. Characteristics of the conflict. Social situation of England. The Wars of the Roses.

6. The Tudors. Social developments. Henry VIII and the Church of England. Elizabethan Age. Defeat of Spanish Armada and beginning of English expansion overseas. Renaissance in England.

7. The first Stuarts and English Revolution. Foundation of American colonies. Religious conflicts. English Civil War. The Commonwealth and the Protectorate.

8. Glorious Revolution and the House of Hanover. Restoration of Stuarts. Habeas Corpus Act. Reign of William III Orange and Mary. Bill of Rights. The Act of Union. The role of Parliament. Beginnings of British Empire. Social developments. The Enlightenment.

9. The Napoleonic Wars and Industrial Revolution. Social and economic developments. British involvement in the European conflict. Imperial gains and developments.

10. Victorian Era. Cultural developments. Chartist movement and reforms. Imperial wars. Political and economic developments.

11. From World War One to World War Two. The Irish question. Imperial developments. Labour movement. WWI and its consequences. The British Commonwealth. Britain and World War Two.

History of the United States

1. Pre-Columbian North America - diversity of cultures and civilizations

2. Colonial America. The Vikings in America. 16^th-century discoveries. New Spain and New France. First English settlements. Foundation of English colonies. New England, Middle Atlantic, the South: regional characteristics. The religious situation. Social and economic developments in the 17^th and 18^th centuries. Setting up slavery. The Great Awakening. Conflicts with the American Indians. Anglo-French Wars.

3. The Independence. Relationships between Britain and the colonies. The American Revolution. The Articles of Confederation. The US Constitution.

4. Development of the United States and territorial expansion. Northwest Ordinance. Federalists vs. Republicans. Foreign policy of the new nation. Louisiana Purchase. War of 1812. Monroe's Doctrine. Pioneers and westward expansion. Missouri Compromise. Indian confrontation. Jacksonian Democracy. Texas Republic. Manifest Destiny. Mexican War. The question of slavery and abolitionism. Social and cultural developments.

5. Civil War and the Age of Progress. Secession and conflict. Consequences of the American Civil War and Reconstruction. The Western Frontier. Indian wars. Industrial growth and social transformations. The Gilded Age. Mass immigration. The capitalist society.

6. United States up to WWI. Progressivism. Imperial policy of the USA. America in World War One.

7. The inter-war period. The Jazz Age and the Prohibition. Great Depression and the New Deal. Social and cultural developments.

8. World War Two. The USA at war with Germany and Japan.

9. The Cold War. Confronting communism. Korean War. American culture and society in the 1950s.

10. The 1960s and 1970s. Kennedy's Presidency. Civil Rights Movement. The Vietnam War. Nixon's Presidency and the Watergate. Social and cultural developments.

11. The Reagan Era. Reaganomics. The end of the Cold War. Social and cultural developments.

12. The Clinton Years: Post-Cold war reality. The Gulf War. Domestic terrorism. The Clinton boom. Social and cultural developments.

13. The USA after 9/11: the Bush Administration. 9/11. The War on Terror. The new challenges. Social and cultural developments.

dr Tomasz Skirecki

Historia Anglii i Stanów Zjednoczonych

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