Our World After the Cold War

Our World After the Cold War

Winter (14+ hours) | This course is completed

NEW

1/18/2021-3/8/2021

12:00 PM-2:00 PM EDT on Mon

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$85.00

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Do you remember where you were on these days: 11/9/1989, 9/11/2001, and 11/9/2016? I couldn’t believe my eyes and ears when these events occurred! My life in the U.S. had just started around the time when the Berlin Wall fell on 11/9/1989. Seeing the pictures on the news, my first thought was: “That must be one of these American Reality Shows.” On a business trip in Germany on 9/11/2001, I watched the towers of the World Trade Center burning on German TV, in fear of the coming apocalypse. After Trump’s victory speech on 11/9/2016 there was only silence in the room.

We will explore the changes to our world from the time when the Cold War ended to the present, and discuss topics like:
*Who won the Cold War?
*Rising tensions in united Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
*Developments in the former Eastern Bloc countries and the former states of the Soviet Union.
*The impact of the 2001 terrorist attacks on Western democracies.
*The mission of the U.S. military and NATO in the new world order.
*The role of the UN in conflict situations and in the effort to protect our living space.
*Is the leading role of the U.S. in science, technology and economy compromised by challengers like China, India and Japan?

In our discussions we will evaluate the interconnections among these events over the passage of time. The course will be presented using PowerPoint slides, video clips, and online information.

Ewert, Jürgen

Jürgen Ewert was born in 1949 and grew up in a small village near the Baltic Sea in East Germany. After finishing school in 1968 he studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Ilmenau. In 1972 Jürgen started working as a design engineer at a large company in East Berlin and joined the Academy of Science in Berlin in 1985. He had an opportunity to travel to the United States in August 1989, shortly before the Berlin Wall fell that November. Jürgen lives in Woodstock, Vermont.