| ID | 006603 |
| Call Number | 327.0904/MCA |
| Title Proper | IGCSE Twentieth Century History: International Relations since 1919 |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | McAleavy, Tony |
| Edition Statement | 2007 |
| Publication | Great Britain, Cambridge University Press, 1996. |
| Description | 176p Blue Spine |
| Note | Twentieth Century History is a major GCSE core text in the Cambridge History Programme, focusing on international relations between 1914 and the collapse of communism in the late twentieth century. |
| Note | The 1919-23 peace treaties
-Origins of the first world war
-First World War
-Russian Revolution
-Paris 1919
-Treaty of Versailles
-Other Peace traties
-Aftermath: the immediate consequences of the treaties
-A harsh treaty
-Review: the peace treaties of 1919-23
The League of Nations
-Setting up
-Reparations: the Dawes and the Young Plans
-Spirit of Locarno
-Rise of Hitler
-Depression and international politics
-Crisis in Manchuria
-Mussolini and Italian fascism
-Conquest of Abyssinia
-Review: the rise and fall of the League of Nations
The collapse of internationa peace
-From the Rhineland to the 'Anschluss'
-Munich and the destruction of Czechoslovakia
-Different views of appeasement
-Nazi - Soviet Pact
-Hitler's war
-Review: the 1930s - the road to war
The Cold War
-Second World war
-Fall of the European empires
-Roots of the Cold War
-1945: the breakdown of the wartime alliance
-Soviet take-over of Eastern Europe
-Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan
-American motives at the start of the Cold War
-Berlin Blockade and NATO
-Review: the start of the Cold War
Containing the spread of communism
-Communist China
-Korean War
-Cuban missile crisis
-Cold War and the Middle East
-Vietnam War
-Review: containing communism
Soviet control over Eastern Europe
-Tito and Stalin
-Red Army in Budapest and Prague
-Building the Berlin Wall
-Solidarity
-Gorbachev and the fall of the Soviet Empire
-Review: the Soviet Empire 1948-91
The United Nations Organisation
-United Nations
-UN in action: Korea and the Congo
-Review: the work and the sucess of the UN |
| Standard Number | 0521893503 |
| Price. Qualification | Rs.725(Pb) |
| Classification Number | 327.0904 |
| Key Words | History, Modern - 20th century ; International relations - History - 20th century ; International relations - History - 20th century - Examinations - Study guides ; World politics - 1945 - 1989 |