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| adam_text | Contents List offigures List of maps List of tables Preface to the sixth edition PART I xiv xv xvi xvii WAR AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 1 The origins of the First World War Summary of events 1.1 Introduction 1.2 The importance of economic rivalry 1.3 The alliance system 1.4 The arms race 1.5 Events leading up to the outbreak of war 1.6 The role of chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg in the July crisis Further reading 3 3 3 6 7 9 11 17 20 2 The First World War 1914-1918 Summary of events 2.1 Historiography. The nature of the great war 2.2 1914 2.3 1915 2.4 1916 2.5 The war at sea 2.6 1917 2.7 The central powers defeated 2.8 Historiography: The consequences of thegreat war Further reading 22 22 23 24 26 29 30 32 33 37 39 3 A bitter peace 1918-33 Summary of events 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Brest-Litovsk 1917-18 3.3 Versailles 3.4 The League of Nations 3.5 The Russian Civil War (1918-21) 3.6 An uneasy peace Further reading 40 40 40 41 42 48 50 51 56 4 The road to war Summary of events 4.1 Introduction: The impact of the economic crash on international affairs 4.2 Germany and the revision of the Versaillessettlement 4.3 Italy 1934-5 57 57 CONTENTS 58 62 64 vii
4.4 Great Britain - foreign policy in the 1930s 4.5 France in the 1930s 4.6 Tension in Europe increases 1936 -8 4.7 1939: On the brink of war 4.8 The invasion of Poland - September 1939 Further reading 6( 61 61 74 71 79 5 The Second World War 1939-45 Summary of events 5.1 Opening moves: September 1939 to December 1940 5.2 The Axis offensive widens: 1941 to the summer of 1942 5.3 The offensives held in check: Summer 1942 to summer 1943 5.4 What part was played by Allied Naval Forces? 5.5 What Contribution did Air Power make to the Defeat of the Axis? 5.6 The Axis powers defeated: July 1943 to August 1945 5.7 Why did the Axis Powers lose the war? 5.8 The Holocaust 5.9 What were the effects of the war? Further reading 80 80 81’ 85 89 9li 97։ 9 9 ,. 99 105 108 6 The Cold War: Probkms of international relations after the Second World War Summary of events 6.1 What caused the Cold War? 6.2 How did the Cold War develop between 1945 and 1953? 6.3 To what extent was there a thaw after 1953? 6.4 The nuclear arms race and the Cuban missiles crisis (1962) Further reading 110 110: 111 113 120 123։ 127 7 8 The spread of communism outside Europe and its effects on international relations Summary of events 7.1 The war in Korea and its effects on international relations 7.2 Cuba 7.3 The wars in Vietnam, 1946-54 and 1961-75 7.4 Chile under Salvador Allende, 1970-3 7.5 More United States interventions 7.6 Détente: international relations from the 1970s to the 1990s 7.7 The collapse of communism in eastern Europe and the end of the Cold War: International relations transformed Further reading
The United Nations Organization Summary of events 8.1 The structure of the United Nations Organization 8.2 How different is the United Nations from the League of Nations? 8.3 How successful has the UN been as a peacekeeping organization? 8.4 UN peacekeeping since the end of the Cold War 8.5 What other work is the UN responsible for? 8.6 Verdict on the United Nations Organization 8.7 What about the future of the UN? Further reading viii CONTENTS 128 128 129’ 133 135 140 143 146 149 151 152 152 152 155 156 160 162 166 169 170
9 Јђе Two Europes, East and West since 1945 171 Summary of events 9 1 The states of western Europe 9՚2 The growth of unity in western Europe 9 3 The early days of the European Community 9 4 The European Community from 1973 to Maastricht (1991) 9.5 Communist unity in eastern Europe 9 6 Why and how did communism collapse in easternEurope? 9.7 Civil war in Yugoslavia 9.8 Europe since Maastricht 9.9 The European Union in crisis Further reading 171 172 176 177 182 186 192 197 202 206 208 10 Conflict in the Middle East Summary of events 10.1 Arab unity and interference from the outsideworld 10.2 The creation of Israel and the Arab-Israeli war,1948-9 10.3 The Suez War of 1956 10.4 The Six-Day War of 1967 10.5 The Yom Kippur War of 1973 10.6 Camp David and the Egyptian-Israeli peace,1978-9 10.7 Peace between Israel and the PLO 10.8 Conflict in the Lebanon 10.9 The Iran-Iraq War, 1980-8 10.10 The Gulf War, 1990-1 10.11 Israelis and Palestinians fight again 209 209 211 214 216 218 220 221 222 224 228 230 231 239 Further reading 11 The new world order and thewar against global terrorism Summary of events 11.1 The new world order 11.2 The rise of global terrorism 11.3 11 September 2001 and the‘war on terror’ 11.4 The downfall of Saddam Hussein 11.5 The continuing war in Afghanistan 11.6 The problem of Iran 11.7 The Arab Spring 241 241 242 244 248 253 260 261 264 274 Further reading PART II 12 THE RISE OF FASCISM AND GOVERNMENTS OF THE RIGHT Italy, 1918-45: The first appearance of Fascism Summary of events 12.1 Why was Mussolini able to come to power? 12.2 What did the term ‘fascism’
stand for? 12.3 Mussolini tries to introduce the fascist state 12.4 What benefits did fascism bring for the Italian people? 12.5 Opposition and downfall Further reading 277 277 277 280 281 285 288 289 CONTENTS ¡X
13 Germany, 1918-45: The Weimar Republic and Hitler Summar} of events 13.1 Why did the Weimar Republic fail? 13.2 What did National Socialism stand for? 13.3 Hitler consolidates his power 13.4 How was Hitler able to stay in power? 13.5 Nazism and Fascism 13.6 How successful was Hitler in domestic affairs? Further reading 290 290 291 297 299 300 308 309 312 PART III COMMUNISM - RISE AND DECLINE 14 Russia, 1894-1917 Summary of events 14.1 Russia under Tsar Nicholas II 14.2 Bloody Sunday and the 1905 revolution 14.3 Historiography of Nicholas II 14.4 The Tsar’s ministers 14.5 The Duma: 1906-17 14.6 Rasputin 14.7 Russia at war: 1914-17 14.8 The February Revolution Further reading 317 317 317 321 322 323 325 327 328 331 333 15 Russia under Lenin and Stalin Summary of events 15.1 The revolutions: October/November 1917 15.2 How successfully did Lenin and the Bolsheviks deal with their problems (1917-24)? 337 15.3 Lenin - evil genius? 15.4 The USSR and Stalin, 1924-53 15.5 How successful was Stalin in solving Russia’s economic problems? 15.6 Politics and the purges 15.7 Everyday life and culture under Stalin 15.8 Stalin’s final years,1945-53 Further reading 334 334 335 344 345 346 350 352 353 356 16 Continuing communism, collapse and aftermath, 1953 to the present Summary of events 16.1 The Khrushchev era, 1953-64 16.2 The USSR stagnates, 1964-85 16.3 Gorbachev and the end of communist rule 16.4 The aftermath of communism, Yeltsin, Putin and Medvedev Further reading 358 358 359 363 365 372 380 17 China, 1900-49 Summary of events 17.1 Revolution and the warlord era 17.2 The
Kuomintang, Dr Sun Yat-Sen andChiang Kai-Shek 17.3 Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party 17.4 The communist victory, 1949 Further reading 382 382 382 385 386 390 391 X CONTENTS
18 China since 1949: The communists in control 392 Summary of events 18.1 How successful was Mao in dealing with China sproblems? 18.2 Life after Mao 18.3 Tiananmen Square. 1989 and the crisis of communism 18.4 The changing face of communism in China Further reading 392 392 397 400 402 407 408 408 409 414 417 422 424 19 Communism in Korea and south-east Asia Summary of events 19.1 North Korea 19.2 Vietnam 19.3 Cambodia/Kampuchea 19.4 Laos Further reading PART IV THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 20 USA boom and bust: 1900-29 21 22 Summary of events 20.1 America at the beginning of the twentieth century 20.2 The transition from an agrarian to an industrial economy 20.3 Theodore Roosevelt and the origins of the progressive movement 20.4 The Taft administration 20.5 The ‘Red Scare’ 20.6 The election of 1920 and the Harding administration 20.7 Prohibition 20.8 Al Capone and organized crime 20.9 Religious fundamentalism 20.10 The Coolidge era and the presidential election of 1924 20.11 The economy in the 1920s 20.12 Hoover’s domestic agenda Further reading 427 427 427 429 430 431 432 433 435 438 438 440 440 444 445 Roosevelt and the New Deal: 1929^45 Summary of events 21.1 The stock market crash of 1929 21.2 The great depression 21.3 The presidential election of 1932 21.4 The Hundred Days and the First New Deal 21.5 The scale of the New Deal 21.6 The second New Deal 21.7 A New Deal for women? 21.8 The rural depression 21.9 Industrial relations during the New Deal era 21.10 Assessments of the New Deal 21.11 The presidential election of 1940 Further reading 446 446 448 450 452 454 459
463 463 465 465 466 466 USA 1945-68: Uneven prosperity Summary of events 22.1 Truman’s background and the presidential election of1944 468 468 446 468 CONTENTS ХІ
23 22.2 Truman in office 1948-53 22.3 President Eisenhower 22.4 African Americans under Eisenhower 22.5 The election of 1956 22.6 President Kennedy 22.7 Lyndon Baines Johnson Further reading 469 470 471 473 473 478 484 USA 1968-2012: Opportunity and challenge Summary of events 23.1 Introduction 23.2 Presidential campaigns 1952-72 23.3 Watergate and its aftermath 23.4 The Carter presidency 23.5 The emergence of the Black power movement and its consequences 23.6 The 1980s - the shift to the Right 23.7 President George H. W. Bush 1989-92 23.8 The Clinton years 23.9 The presidential election of 2000 23.10 George W. Bush’s first term (2001-5) 23.11 George W. Bush’s second term (2005-8) 23.12 Barack Obama (2009-13) F urther reading 486 486 487 487 489 490 491 494 499 501 507 508 510 511 513 PART V DECOLONIZATION AND AFTER 24 The end of the Europeanempires Summary of events 24.1 Why did the European powers give up their empires? 24.2 Indian independence and partition 24.3 The West Indies, Malaya and Cyprus 24.4 The British leave Africa 24.5 The end of the French Empire 24.6 The Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Portugal and Italy 24.7 Verdict on decolonization Further reading 517 517 519 522 525 529 537 542 548 550 25 Africa since independence Summary of events 25.1 Issues common to the African States 25.2 Ghana 25.3 Nigeria 25.4 Tanzania 25.5 The Congo/Zaire 25.6 Angola 25.7 Burundi and Rwanda 25.8 Apartheid and black majority rule in South Africa 25.9 Ethiopia 25.10 Liberia 25.11 Sierra Leone 25.12 Zimbabwe 25.13 Somalia 551 551 551 552 555 559 562 565 567 570 579 581 582 584 589 ХІІ
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25 14 The Sudan ?5J5 Africa in the twenty-first century Further reading Հ 26 Latin America Summary of events 26.1 The era of US domination 26.2 South America: Brazil and Venezuela 26.3 Mexico, Guatemala and Nicaragua 26.4 The challenge to US domination Further reading 591 592 593 595 595 597 599 602 609 618 PART VI GLOBAL PROBLEMS 27 The changing worldeconomy since 1900 Summary of events 27.1 Changes in the world economy since 1900 27.2 The third world and the North-South divide 27.3 The split in the third world economy 27.4 The world economy and its effects on the environment 27.5 Global warming 27.6 The world economy at the turn of the millennium 27.7 Capitalism in crisis 27.8 The world economies in 2012 Further reading 623 623 623 626 631 632 637 640 642 649 653 28 The world’s population Summary of events 28.1 The increasing world population since 1900 28.2 Consequences of the population explosion 28.3 Attempts at population control 28.4 The population increase and Islamism 28.5 The HIV/Aids epidemic Further reading 655 655 655 658 659 662 666 669 Index 670 CONTENTS ХІІІ
The sixth edition of this bestselling book introduces readers to the key themes and events which have shaped modern world history. With unrivalled broad coverage, It: • surveys international relations and war from 1900 onwards • examines the rise and fall of fascism and communism around the globe • explores the international affairs of the major superpowers: the USA, Russia/USSR and China • assesses the experience of decolonization in India, Africa and Latin America • unpicks global issues, including economic crises and the climate crisis. This revised and updated edition features: • coverage of new historical interpretations of the events that led to the First World War • a new chapter on the rule of Tsar Nicholas and the Russian Revolutions of 1917 • four nevy chapters on the history of the United States of America. Renowned for its lively and engaging writing, Mastering Modern World History is an essential resource for students at all levels ֊ from secondary school through to university - who are taking courses in modern world history or international relations. It is also an invaluable companion for any reader interested in understanding the past and its legacy today.
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Contents List offigures List of maps List of tables Preface to the sixth edition PART I xiv xv xvi xvii WAR AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 1 The origins of the First World War Summary of events 1.1 Introduction 1.2 The importance of economic rivalry 1.3 The alliance system 1.4 The arms race 1.5 Events leading up to the outbreak of war 1.6 The role of chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg in the July crisis Further reading 3 3 3 6 7 9 11 17 20 2 The First World War 1914-1918 Summary of events 2.1 Historiography. The nature of the great war 2.2 1914 2.3 1915 2.4 1916 2.5 The war at sea 2.6 1917 2.7 The central powers defeated 2.8 Historiography: The consequences of thegreat war Further reading 22 22 23 24 26 29 30 32 33 37 39 3 A bitter peace 1918-33 Summary of events 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Brest-Litovsk 1917-18 3.3 Versailles 3.4 The League of Nations 3.5 The Russian Civil War (1918-21) 3.6 An uneasy peace Further reading 40 40 40 41 42 48 50 51 56 4 The road to war Summary of events 4.1 Introduction: The impact of the economic crash on international affairs 4.2 Germany and the revision of the Versaillessettlement 4.3 Italy 1934-5 57 57 CONTENTS 58 62 64 vii
4.4 Great Britain - foreign policy in the 1930s 4.5 France in the 1930s 4.6 Tension in Europe increases 1936 -8 4.7 1939: On the brink of war 4.8 The invasion of Poland - September 1939 Further reading 6( 61 61 74 71 79 5 The Second World War 1939-45 Summary of events 5.1 Opening moves: September 1939 to December 1940 5.2 The Axis offensive widens: 1941 to the summer of 1942 5.3 The offensives held in check: Summer 1942 to summer 1943 5.4 What part was played by Allied Naval Forces? 5.5 What Contribution did Air Power make to the Defeat of the Axis? 5.6 The Axis powers defeated: July 1943 to August 1945 5.7 Why did the Axis Powers lose the war? 5.8 The Holocaust 5.9 What were the effects of the war? Further reading 80 80 81’ 85 89 9li 97։ 9' 9',. 99 105 108 6 The Cold War: Probkms of international relations after the Second World War Summary of events 6.1 What caused the Cold War? 6.2 How did the Cold War develop between 1945 and 1953? 6.3 To what extent was there a thaw after 1953? 6.4 The nuclear arms race and the Cuban missiles crisis (1962) Further reading 110 110: 111 113 120 123։ 127 7 8 The spread of communism outside Europe and its effects on international relations Summary of events 7.1 The war in Korea and its effects on international relations 7.2 Cuba 7.3 The wars in Vietnam, 1946-54 and 1961-75 7.4 Chile under Salvador Allende, 1970-3 7.5 More United States interventions 7.6 Détente: international relations from the 1970s to the 1990s 7.7 The collapse of communism in eastern Europe and the end of the Cold War: International relations transformed Further reading
The United Nations Organization Summary of events 8.1 The structure of the United Nations Organization 8.2 How different is the United Nations from the League of Nations? 8.3 How successful has the UN been as a peacekeeping organization? 8.4 UN peacekeeping since the end of the Cold War 8.5 What other work is the UN responsible for? 8.6 Verdict on the United Nations Organization 8.7 What about the future of the UN? Further reading viii CONTENTS 128 128 129’ 133 135 140 143 146 149 151 152 152 152 155 156 160 162 166 169 170
9 Јђе Two Europes, East and West since 1945 171 Summary of events 9 1 The states of western Europe 9՚2 The growth of unity in western Europe 9'3 The early days of the European Community 9 4 The European Community from 1973 to Maastricht (1991) 9.5 Communist unity in eastern Europe 9 6 Why and how did communism collapse in easternEurope? 9.7 Civil war in Yugoslavia 9.8 Europe since Maastricht 9.9 The European Union in crisis Further reading 171 172 176 177 182 186 192 197 202 206 208 10 Conflict in the Middle East Summary of events 10.1 Arab unity and interference from the outsideworld 10.2 The creation of Israel and the Arab-Israeli war,1948-9 10.3 The Suez War of 1956 10.4 The Six-Day War of 1967 10.5 The Yom Kippur War of 1973 10.6 Camp David and the Egyptian-Israeli peace,1978-9 10.7 Peace between Israel and the PLO 10.8 Conflict in the Lebanon 10.9 The Iran-Iraq War, 1980-8 10.10 The Gulf War, 1990-1 10.11 Israelis and Palestinians fight again 209 209 211 214 216 218 220 221 222 224 228 230 231 239 Further reading 11 The new world order and thewar against global terrorism Summary of events 11.1 The new world order 11.2 The rise of global terrorism 11.3 11 September 2001 and the‘war on terror’ 11.4 The downfall of Saddam Hussein 11.5 The continuing war in Afghanistan 11.6 The problem of Iran 11.7 The Arab Spring 241 241 242 244 248 253 260 261 264 274 Further reading PART II 12 THE RISE OF FASCISM AND GOVERNMENTS OF THE RIGHT Italy, 1918-45: The first appearance of Fascism Summary of events 12.1 Why was Mussolini able to come to power? 12.2 What did the term ‘fascism’
stand for? 12.3 Mussolini tries to introduce the fascist state 12.4 What benefits did fascism bring for the Italian people? 12.5 Opposition and downfall Further reading 277 277 277 280 281 285 288 289 CONTENTS ¡X
13 Germany, 1918-45: The Weimar Republic and Hitler Summar}' of events 13.1 Why did the Weimar Republic fail? 13.2 What did National Socialism stand for? 13.3 Hitler consolidates his power 13.4 How was Hitler able to stay in power? 13.5 Nazism and Fascism 13.6 How successful was Hitler in domestic affairs? Further reading 290 290 291 297 299 300 308 309 312 PART III COMMUNISM - RISE AND DECLINE 14 Russia, 1894-1917 Summary of events 14.1 Russia under Tsar Nicholas II 14.2 Bloody Sunday and the 1905 revolution 14.3 Historiography of Nicholas II 14.4 The Tsar’s ministers 14.5 The Duma: 1906-17 14.6 Rasputin 14.7 Russia at war: 1914-17 14.8 The February Revolution Further reading 317 317 317 321 322 323 325 327 328 331 333 15 Russia under Lenin and Stalin Summary of events 15.1 The revolutions: October/November 1917 15.2 How successfully did Lenin and the Bolsheviks deal with their problems (1917-24)? 337 15.3 Lenin - evil genius? 15.4 The USSR and Stalin, 1924-53 15.5 How successful was Stalin in solving Russia’s economic problems? 15.6 Politics and the purges 15.7 Everyday life and culture under Stalin 15.8 Stalin’s final years,1945-53 Further reading 334 334 335 344 345 346 350 352 353 356 16 Continuing communism, collapse and aftermath, 1953 to the present Summary of events 16.1 The Khrushchev era, 1953-64 16.2 The USSR stagnates, 1964-85 16.3 Gorbachev and the end of communist rule 16.4 The aftermath of communism, Yeltsin, Putin and Medvedev Further reading 358 358 359 363 365 372 380 17 China, 1900-49 Summary of events 17.1 Revolution and the warlord era 17.2 The
Kuomintang, Dr Sun Yat-Sen andChiang Kai-Shek 17.3 Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party 17.4 The communist victory, 1949 Further reading 382 382 382 385 386 390 391 X CONTENTS
18 China since 1949: The communists in control 392 Summary of events 18.1 How successful was Mao in dealing with China'sproblems? 18.2 Life after Mao 18.3 Tiananmen Square. 1989 and the crisis of communism 18.4 The changing face of communism in China Further reading 392 392 397 400 402 407 408 408 409 414 417 422 424 19 Communism in Korea and south-east Asia Summary of events 19.1 North Korea 19.2 Vietnam 19.3 Cambodia/Kampuchea 19.4 Laos Further reading PART IV THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 20 USA boom and bust: 1900-29 21 22 Summary of events 20.1 America at the beginning of the twentieth century 20.2 The transition from an agrarian to an industrial economy 20.3 Theodore Roosevelt and the origins of the progressive movement 20.4 The Taft administration 20.5 The ‘Red Scare’ 20.6 The election of 1920 and the Harding administration 20.7 Prohibition 20.8 Al Capone and organized crime 20.9 Religious fundamentalism 20.10 The Coolidge era and the presidential election of 1924 20.11 The economy in the 1920s 20.12 Hoover’s domestic agenda Further reading 427 427 427 429 430 431 432 433 435 438 438 440 440 444 445 Roosevelt and the New Deal: 1929^45 Summary of events 21.1 The stock market crash of 1929 21.2 The great depression 21.3 The presidential election of 1932 21.4 The Hundred Days and the First New Deal 21.5 The scale of the New Deal 21.6 The second New Deal 21.7 A New Deal for women? 21.8 The rural depression 21.9 Industrial relations during the New Deal era 21.10 Assessments of the New Deal 21.11 The presidential election of 1940 Further reading 446 446 448 450 452 454 459
463 463 465 465 466 466 USA 1945-68: Uneven prosperity Summary of events 22.1 Truman’s background and the presidential election of1944 468 468 446 468 CONTENTS ХІ
23 22.2 Truman in office 1948-53 22.3 President Eisenhower 22.4 African Americans under Eisenhower 22.5 The election of 1956 22.6 President Kennedy 22.7 Lyndon Baines Johnson Further reading 469 470 471 473 473 478 484 USA 1968-2012: Opportunity and challenge Summary of events 23.1 Introduction 23.2 Presidential campaigns 1952-72 23.3 Watergate and its aftermath 23.4 The Carter presidency 23.5 The emergence of the Black power movement and its consequences 23.6 The 1980s - the shift to the Right 23.7 President George H. W. Bush 1989-92 23.8 The Clinton years 23.9 The presidential election of 2000 23.10 George W. Bush’s first term (2001-5) 23.11 George W. Bush’s second term (2005-8) 23.12 Barack Obama (2009-13) F urther reading 486 486 487 487 489 490 491 494 499 501 507 508 510 511 513 PART V DECOLONIZATION AND AFTER 24 The end of the Europeanempires Summary of events 24.1 Why did the European powers give up their empires? 24.2 Indian independence and partition 24.3 The West Indies, Malaya and Cyprus 24.4 The British leave Africa 24.5 The end of the French Empire 24.6 The Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Portugal and Italy 24.7 Verdict on decolonization Further reading 517 517 519 522 525 529 537 542 548 550 25 Africa since independence Summary of events 25.1 Issues common to the African States 25.2 Ghana 25.3 Nigeria 25.4 Tanzania 25.5 The Congo/Zaire 25.6 Angola 25.7 Burundi and Rwanda 25.8 Apartheid and black majority rule in South Africa 25.9 Ethiopia 25.10 Liberia 25.11 Sierra Leone 25.12 Zimbabwe 25.13 Somalia 551 551 551 552 555 559 562 565 567 570 579 581 582 584 589 ХІІ
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25 14 The Sudan ?5J5 Africa in the twenty-first century Further reading Հ 26 Latin America Summary of events 26.1 The era of US domination 26.2 South America: Brazil and Venezuela 26.3 Mexico, Guatemala and Nicaragua 26.4 The challenge to US domination Further reading 591 592 593 595 595 597 599 602 609 618 PART VI GLOBAL PROBLEMS 27 The changing worldeconomy since 1900 Summary of events 27.1 Changes in the world economy since 1900 27.2 The third world and the North-South divide 27.3 The split in the third world economy 27.4 The world economy and its effects on the environment 27.5 Global warming 27.6 The world economy at the turn of the millennium 27.7 Capitalism in crisis 27.8 The world economies in 2012 Further reading 623 623 623 626 631 632 637 640 642 649 653 28 The world’s population Summary of events 28.1 The increasing world population since 1900 28.2 Consequences of the population explosion 28.3 Attempts at population control 28.4 The population increase and Islamism 28.5 The HIV/Aids epidemic Further reading 655 655 655 658 659 662 666 669 Index 670 CONTENTS ХІІІ
The sixth edition of this bestselling book introduces readers to the key themes and events which have shaped modern world history. With unrivalled broad coverage, It: • surveys international relations and war from 1900 onwards • examines the rise and fall of fascism and communism around the globe • explores the international affairs of the major superpowers: the USA, Russia/USSR and China • assesses the experience of decolonization in India, Africa and Latin America • unpicks global issues, including economic crises and the climate crisis. This revised and updated edition features: • coverage of new historical interpretations of the events that led to the First World War • a new chapter on the rule of Tsar Nicholas and the Russian Revolutions of 1917 • four nevy chapters on the history of the United States of America. Renowned for its lively and engaging writing, Mastering Modern World History is an essential resource for students at all levels ֊ from secondary school through to university - who are taking courses in modern world history or international relations. It is also an invaluable companion for any reader interested in understanding the past and its legacy today. |
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| contents | The Origins of the First World War -- The Great War 1914-1918 -- The Bitter Peace -- The Road to War -- The Second World War, 1939-1945 -- The Cold War : problems of international relations after the Second World War -- The spread of communism outside Europe and its effects on international relations -- The United Nations Organization -- The Two Europes, East and West since 1945 -- Conflict in the Middle East -- The New World Order and the War Against Global Terrorism -- Italy 1918-1945 : the first appearance of fascism -- Germany 1918-1945 : the Weimar Republic and Hitler -- Russia 1894-1917 -- Lenin and Stalin -- Continuing communism, collapse and aftermath, 1953 to the present -- China 1900-1949 -- China since 1949 : the communists in control -- Communism in Korea and South East Asia -- USA 1900-1929 : Boom and Bust -- Roosevelt and the New Deal : 1929-1945 -- USA 1945-1968 : Uneven Prosperity -- USA 1968-2012 : Opportunity and Challenge -- The end of the European Empires -- Africa -- Latin America -- The changing world economy since 1900 -- The World's Population |
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