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Written by a diverse group of scholars who bring their regional expertise together, this unique and comprehensive text uses organization as a key tool to help students appreciate this important period in global history. Its clear prose weaves basic factual information and analysis to create a 'student-friendly' text while still allowing for professors' personal interpretation. An introductory chapter introduces five key topics or themes whose influence on the various developments and events in the twentieth century are chronologically discussed throughout the text. More analysis, less detail and refined prose combine with new and retained features to make the 6th edition of 'The Twentieth Century: A Brief Global History' a best selling text for the 20th Century World course.

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Preface

xiv

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)

Imperialism in Asia and the Pacific

68

(26)

The Origins of World War I

94

(8)

World War I

102

(18)

PART II THE ERA OF REVOLUTION AND WAR

General Trends in the Interwar Years

120

(14)

Russia's Three Revolutions, 1917-1932

134

(15)

Postwar Settlements and Europe in the 1920s

149

(18)

Economic and Social Upheaval in the United States and Latin America

167

(15)

East Asia Between the World Wars

182

(13)

Nationalist Struggles in India and Southeast Asia

195

(9)

Anticolonialism in the Middle East and Africa

204

(14)

Dictatorship and Democracy in Europe During The 1930s

218

(12)

Aggression in the 1930s

230

(13)

World War II

243

(27)

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

270

(21)

Postwar Settlements, Europe, and the Early Cold War

291

(22)

The United States and Latin America after World War II

313

(16)

Asia in the Aftermath of World War II

329

(25)

African Struggles for Independence

354

(14)

Development and Crisis in the Middle East

368

(13)

The Israeli-Palestinian Arab Conflict

381

(12)

Detente and Europe, 1963-1984

393

(17)

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

410

(16)

South and Southeast Asia in the Late Cold War Era

426

(18)

Competing Systems in East Asia in the Late Cold War Era

444

(18)

Africa in the Later Years of the Cold War

462

(14)

Gorbachev, Europe, and the End of the Cold War, 1985-1991

476

(25)

PART IV THE POST-COLD WAR PERIOD

The Post-Cold War World

501

(31)

Postscript to a Changing Century

532

(33)

APPENDICES

A. World Geography

543

(14)

B. Wealthy Nations, Poor Nations, and Military Spending in the 1980s and 1990s

557

(4)

C. Glossary

561

(4)

Index

565

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