Twentieth Century History For DummiesISBN: 978-0-470-51015-5
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458 pages
February 2012
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Part I: The Great War Years: 1900–19.
Chapter 1: Overview of a Century.
Chapter 2: Fin de Siècle – Wrapping Up the Nineteenth Century.
Chapter 3: The Great War: 1914–18.
Part II: The Years of the Great Dictators: 1919–45.
Chapter 4: The Red Flag – Communism.
Chapter 5: Men in Black (Shirts): The Right-Wing Dictators.
Chapter 6: The Twenties: The Decade that Roared.
Chapter 7: I’m the King of the World! Europe’s Empires.
Chapter 8: Depression and Aggression.
Chapter 9: The War of the World.
Part III: The Divided World: 1945–89.
Chapter 10: You’re Cold as Ice! The Cold War.
Chapter 11: Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me: The End of Empires.
Chapter 12: Africa’s Wind of Change.
Chapter 13: Going Bananas: Latin America.
Chapter 14: Asian Tigers.
Chapter 15: Disneyland: Post-War America.
Chapter 16: Red on Red: Russia and China.
Part IV: To the Millennium.
Chapter 17: Muddle in the Middle East.
Chapter 18: Europe Rides Again.
Chapter 19: New Order: Wrapping up the Twentieth Century.
Chapter 20: And the Living Is Easy – For Some.
Part V: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 21: Ten Iconic Images.
Chapter 22: Ten Triumphs of Technology.
Chapter 23: Ten Films That Made an Impact.
Chapter 24: Ten International Bodies that Made a Difference.
Chapter 25: Ten BAD Ideas.
Index.
