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The Twentieth Century: A Brief Global History, 6/e
Richard Goff, Eastern Michigan University
Janice Terry, Eastern Michigan University
Walter Moss, Eastern Michigan University
Jiu Hwa Upshur, Eastern Michigan University


Table of Contents

1. 1900: A Preview of the Twentieth Century
PART I: THE ERA OF IMPERIALISM
2. General Trends before World War I
3. The Great Powers of Europe
4. The European Conquest of Africa
5. The United States and Latin America
6. Imperialism in Asia and the Pacific
7. The Origins of World War I
8. World War I
PART II: THE ERA OF REVOLUTION AND WAR
9. General Trends in the Interwar Years
10. Russia's Three Revolutions, 1917-1932
11. Postwar Settlements and Europe in the 1920s
12. Economic and Social Upheaval in the United States and Latin America
13. East Asia between the World Wars
14. Nationalist Struggles in India and Southeast Asia
15. Anticolonialism in the Middle East and Africa
16. Dictatorship and Democracy in Europe during the 1930s
17. Aggression in the 1930s
18. World War II
PART III: THE ERA OF THE COLD WAR AND THE COLLAPSE OF EMPIRES
19. General Trends in the Era of the Cold War and the Collapse of Empires
20. Postwar Settlements, Europe, and the Early Cold War
21. The United States and Latin America after World War II
22. Asia in the Aftermath of World War II
23. African Struggles for Independence
24. Development and Crisis in the Middle East
25. The Israeli-Palestinian-Arab Conflict
26. Detente and Europe, 1963-1984
27. The United States and Latin America in the Late Cold War Era
28. South and Southeast Asia in the Late Cold War Era
29. Competing Systems in East Asia in the Late Cold War Era
30. Africa in the Later Years of the Cold War
31. Gorbachev, Europe, and the End of the Cold War
PART IV: THE POST-COLD WAR PERIOD
32. The Post-Cold War World
33. Postscript to a Changing Century
APPENDIXES
A. World Geography
B. Wealthy Nations, Poor Nations, and Military Spending in the 1980s and 1990s
C. Glossary
INDEX