Rigorous procedures
Modern History
Base of the field
The examination from the base of the field verifies the candidate’s basic orientation in modern world and Czech (Czechoslovak) history, i.e. in the 19th and 20th centuries. Every candidate shall take the exam.
Topics for the base of the field examination
Consequences of the Great French Revolution, changes in the international system after 1815
The pre-March period and the revolutionary years 1848-1849
The period 1871-1890
The period 1890-1914, World War I
Colonialism as a 19th century phenomenon
Europe (Czechoslovakia) and the world 1918-1939
World War II
Cold War, great powers rivalry
Czechoslovakia 1948-1989
The phenomenon of decolonisation
The collapse of the Soviet bloc, the “end of history”