{"id":318,"date":"2021-04-26T15:14:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T14:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/historyoutreach\/?p=318"},"modified":"2021-04-26T15:14:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T14:14:44","slug":"the-cold-war-in-a-global-perspective-virtual-study-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/historyoutreach\/2021\/04\/26\/the-cold-war-in-a-global-perspective-virtual-study-day\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Cold War in a Global Perspective\u2019 virtual study day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The \u2018Cold\nWar\u2019 is often seen as a confrontation between two major global powers: the United\nStates and the Soviet Union. But it can only really be understood as a global\nconflict. This virtual study day considered the Cold War in a global\nperspective, exploring how deteriorating relations between the United States\nand the Soviet Union collided with surging anticolonial sentiment across the\nworld. As empires collapsed, their former subjects started to imagine new\nfutures, which challenged the idea of East-West conflict as the only way to\norganise the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nworkshop consists of three short talks by specialists from the History\ndepartment at the University of Southampton, followed by a Q&amp;A session. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This\nworkshop will be of particular interest to students taking the following\nA-level modules: \u2018Mao\u2019s China\u2019, \u2018Russia, 1917\u20131991\u2019, \u2018The Cold War in Europe\u2019\nand \u2018The Making of a Superpower\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Global Cold War\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dlz2MvuBQOs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018Cold War\u2019 is often seen as a confrontation between two major global powers: the United States and the Soviet Union. But it can only really be understood as a global conflict. This virtual study day considered the Cold War in a global perspective, exploring how deteriorating relations between the United States and the Soviet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4403,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/historyoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/historyoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/historyoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/historyoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/historyoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/historyoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/historyoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/historyoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/historyoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/historyoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}