History Lessons, Secondary Level II:
The Cold War in Latin America teaching folder encourages students to view the global conflict after World War II from an unusual perspective. Rather than focusing on the competing superpowers and tensions in Europe, as is usually the case, it highlights the consequences of the East-West conflict in Latin America. Thus, the study of the Cold War in history lessons is supplemented with important additional aspects. It quickly becomes clear that the conflict was not so cold after all. Additionally, the three Latin American case studies (Argentina, Chile, and Nicaragua) demonstrate that, in addition to the conflict between capitalism and communism, there were actors representing their own alternative positions.
Mirko Petersen (Ed.)
Mirko Petersen studied European Studies at the Universities of Bremen (B.A.) and Konstanz (M.A.). From 2014 to 2017, he completed his doctorate on political discourse in Argentina in the early phase of the Cold War as part of the BMBF project Die Amerikas als Verflechtungsraum at the University of Bielefeld. This publication for the classroom is based in part on this research work. His dissertation, Geopolitical Imaginaries. Discursive Constructions of the Soviet Union in Peronist Argentina (1943 to 1955), will be published by Transcript Verlag in February 2018.
Nicole Schwabe (Ed.)
Nicole Schwabe is a research assistant at the Centre for InterAmerican Studies at Bielefeld University and coordinates the series of teaching materials Knowledge about Global Interdependencies, which is based there.
The project promotes an exchange between science, schools and extracurricular political education. Representatives from all three areas work together to create teaching materials on topics related to intercultural global learning. In this way, materials for school lessons are created on the pulse of research, which focus on global interdependencies with reference to the Americas (from Canada and the USA to Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America). The series is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research as part of the research project The Americas as an Interdependent Area.
