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| Genre/Form: | Bibliography Sources Bibliography Bibliographie Sources Bibliographie |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael D Richards; Philip F Riley |
| ISBN: | 0313305595 9780313305597 |
| OCLC Number: | 42980224 |
| Description: | xiii, 335 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. The First Manned Flight, 1903 1 -- 2. The Revolution of 1905 in Russia 4 -- 3. Pablo Picasso and Cubism, 1907 7 -- 4. The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920 10 -- 5. The 1911 Revolution in China 14 -- 6. The Suffrage Movement in Britain Before World War I, 1906-1914 18 -- 7. The Battle of the Somme, 1916 21 -- 8. The French Army Mutinies, 1917 24 -- 9. The Home Front in World War I, 1914-1918 27 -- 10. The 1917 Russian Revolution 30 -- 11. The Paris Peace Conference, 1919 34 -- 12. The May 4th Movement in China, 1919 38 -- 13. The British Mandate of Palestine, 1922 41 -- 14. The New Economic Policy (NEP) in Russia, 1921-1928 44 -- 15. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and the Founding of the Republic of Turkey, 1923 47 -- 16. The Northern Expedition in China, 1926-1928 50 -- 17. Mao Zedong's "Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan, March 1927" 53 -- 18. Alexander Fleming and the Discovery of Penicillin, 1928 56 -- 19. Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents, 1930 59 -- 20. Gandhi's Salt March, 1930 62 -- 21. The Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany, 1919-1933 65 -- 22. The Great Depression in the 1930s 68 -- 23. Stalin's First Five-Year Plan, 1928-1932 71 -- 24. The Nazi "Seizure of Power" in 1933 74 -- 25. Mao Zedong and the Long March, 1934-1935 77 -- 26. General Broadcasting of Television in Britain, 1936 80 -- 27. Kita Ikki and Ultranationalism in Japan, 1936-1937 84 -- 28. The Rape of Nanking, 1937 87 -- 29. The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 90 -- 30. The Munich Agreement, 1938 93 -- 31. Kristallnacht ("The Night of Broken Glass"), 1938 97 -- 32. The Nazi-Soviet Pact, 1939 100 -- 33. The Battle of Stalingrad, 1942-1943 103 -- 34. The Holocaust, 1941-1945 106 -- 35. D-Day, 1944 111 -- 36. The Yalta Conference, 1945 114 -- 37. The Use of Atomic Bombs in World War II, 1945 117 -- 38. The Establishment of the United Nations, 1945 121 -- 39. The Invention of the Computer, 1944-1946 124 -- 40. Juan Peron and Argentine Politics, 1946-1955 127 -- 41. Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnamese War Against the French, 1946-1954 130 -- 42. The Independence of India and Pakistan, 1947 133 -- 43. The Establishment of the State of Israel, 1948 136 -- 44. The Marshall Plan (The European Recovery Act), 1948-1951 139 -- 45. The Berlin Blockade and Airlift, 1948-1949 142 -- 46. The Victory of the Chinese Communist Party, 1949 146 -- 47. The Japanese Economic Miracle in the 1950s 149 -- 48. The Korean War, 1950-1953 152 -- 49. The Discovery of the Double Helical Structure of DNA, 1953 156 -- 50. The Guatemalan Coup, 1954 159 -- 51. Khrushchev's "Secret Speech" at the Twentieth Party Congress, 1956 162 -- 52. Gamal Abdel Nasser and the Suez Crisis, 1956 165 -- 53. The Hungarian Revolution, 1956 168 -- 54. Kwame Nkrumah and the Independence of Ghana, 1957 171 -- 55. The Founding of the European Economic Community, 1957 174 -- 56. France and the Algerian Revolution, 1954-1962 177 -- 57. Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution, 1959 180 -- 58. Apartheid in South Africa from the 1950s to the 1970s 183 -- 59. The Berlin Wall, 1961 186 -- 60. The Sino-Soviet Split, 1959-1969 189 -- 61. The "Green Revolution" in Agriculture in the 1960s 193 -- 62. Yuri Gagarin, the First Man in Space, 1961 196 -- 63. Vatican II, 1962-1965 199 -- 64. The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 202 -- 65. The Beatles, 1964 206 -- 66. The Six-Day War, 1967 209 -- 67. Civil War in Nigeria (Biafra), 1967-1970 212 -- 68. The 1968 Tet Offensive 215 -- 69. May 1968 in France 218 -- 70. The Prague Spring, 1968 221 -- 71. Northern Ireland and "The Troubles," 1969-1998 225 -- 72. Pol Pot and the Cambodian Incursion, 1970-1979 228 -- 73. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China, 1966-1976 231 -- 74. SALT I Agreement, 1972 235 -- 75. OPEC and the Oil Price Shock, 1973 237 -- 76. The Overthrow of Salvador Allende in Chile, 1973 241 -- 77. The Helsinki Accords, 1975 244 -- 78. Terrorism in the 1970s 247 -- 79. First "Test-Tube" Baby Born, 1978 250 -- 80. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the Iranian Revolution, 1979 253 -- 81. Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Revolution in Britain, 1979-1990 256 -- 82. Solidarity in Poland, 1980-1990 259 -- 83. The Spread of AIDS in the 1980s 262 -- 84. The Israeli Invasion of Lebanon, 1982 265 -- 85. The Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988 268 -- 86. Chernobyl, 1986 271 -- 87. The Montreal Protocol, 1987 274 -- 88. The Sandinistas and the Contras in Nicaragua, 1981-1989 278 -- 89. Vaclav Havel and the "Velvet Revolution," 1989 281 -- 90. German Reunification, 1989-1990 284 -- 91. The Breakup of the Soviet Union, 1991 287 -- 92. Nelson Mandela and the End of Apartheid in South Africa, 1989-1994 291 -- 93. The Dissolution of Yugoslavia in the 1990s 294 -- 94. The 1992 Earth Summit in Rio 297 -- 95. Genocide in Rwanda, 1994 300 -- 96. Dolly the Sheep Cloned, 1997 303 -- 97. The Asian Economic Meltdown at the End of the 1990s 306 -- 98. John Paul II's First Twenty Years as Pope, 1978-1999 309 -- 99. The Internet in the 1990s 312 -- 100. The Chinese Economy at the End of the Twentieth Century 316. |
| Responsibility: | Michael D. Richards and Philip F. Riley. |
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Abstract:
Organizes significant twentieth-century political, social, economic, and social events covered by world history curricula into chronological order, and suggests six term paper ideas for each event.
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