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Twentieth Century : A Brief Global History,9780070244610

Twentieth Century : A Brief Global History

by Goff, Richard; Moss, Walter; Terry, Janice; Upshur Jiu-Hwa

Edition:

5th

ISBN13:

9780070244610

ISBN10:

0070244618

Format:

Paperback

Pub. Date:

1/1/1998

Publisher(s):

MCGRAW HILL PUBL CO

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Table of Contents

Special Features

xi

Preface

xiii

1900: A Preview of the Twentieth Century

1

(9)

PART I THE ERA OF IMPERIALISM

General Trends before World War I

10

(22)

The Great Powers of Europe

32

(10)

The European Conquest of Africa

42

(13)

The United States and Latin America

55

(13)

European Imperalism in Asia and the Pacific

68

(17)

The United States and Japan in Asia and the Pacific

85

(14)

The Origins of World War I

99

(9)

World War I

108

(18)

PART II THE ERA OF REVOLUTION AND WAR

General Trends in the Interwar Years

126

(16)

Postwar Settlements

142

(11)

The Transformation of Russia, 1917--1932

153

(1)

Europe in the 1920s

153

(25)

Economic and Social Upheaval in the United States and Latin America

178

(14)

East Asia between the World Wars

192

(13)

Nationalist Struggles in India and Southeast Asia

205

(10)

Anticolonialism in the Middle East and Africa

215

(14)

Dictatorship and Democracy in Europe during the 1930s

229

(11)

Aggression in the 1930s

240

(14)

World War II

254

(26)

PART III THE ERA OF THE COLD WAR AND THE COLLAPSE OF EMPIRES

General Trends in the Era of the Cold War and the Collapse of Empires

280

(23)

Postwar Settlements, Europe, and the Early Cold War

303

(24)

The United States and Latin America after World War II

327

(16)

Asia in the Aftermath of World War II

343

(26)

African Struggles for Independence

369

(14)

Development and Crisis in the Middle East

383

(13)

The Israeli-Palestinian-Arab Conflict

396

(12)

Detente and Europe, 1963--1984

408

(16)

The United States and Latin America in the Late Cold War Era

424

(17)

South and Southeast Asia in the Late Cold War Era

441

(19)

Competing Political, Economic, and Social Systems in East Asia

460

(18)

Africa during the Cold War

478

(14)

Gorbachev and the Transformation of Europe, 1985--1991

492

(26)

PART IV THE POST--COLD WAR PERIOD

The Post-Cold War World

518

(25)

Postscript to a Changing Century

543

APPENDIXES

A. World Geography

553

(14)

B. Wealthy Nations, Poor Nations, 1994

567

Index

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