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2007
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| Publication |
Great Britain, Cambridge University Press, 1996.
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| Description |
176pBlue Spine
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| Summary/Abstract |
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.
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| Contents |
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
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| Standard Number |
0521893503 Pb.
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