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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| 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: | -- Stalin's first five-year plan, 1928-1932 -- The Nazi "seizure of power" in 1933 -- Mao Zedong and the Long March, 1934-1935 -- General broadcasting of television in Britain, 1936 -- Kita Ikki and ultranationalism in Japan, 1936-1937 -- The rape of Nanking, 1937 -- The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 -- The Munich Agreement, 1938 -- Kristallnacht ("The night of broken glass"), 1938 -- The Nazi-Soviet pact, 1939 -- The Battle of Stalingrad, 1942-1943 -- The Holocaust, 1941-1945 -- D-day, 1944 -- The Yalta Conference, 1945 -- The use of atomic bombs in World War II, 1945 -- The establishment of the United Nations, 1945 -- The invention of the computer, 1944-1946 -- Juan Perón and Argentine politics, 1946-1955 -- Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnamese War against the French, 1946-1954 -- The independence of India and Pakistan, 1947 -- The establishment of the state of Israel, 1948 -- The Marshall Plan (the European Recovery Act), 1948-1951 -- The Berlin blockade and airlift, 1948-1949 -- The victory of the Chinese Communist Party, 1949 -- The Japanese economic miracle in the 1950s -- The Korean War, 1950-1953 -- The discovery of the double helical structure of DNA, 1953 -- The Guatemalan coup, 1954 -- Khrushchev's "secret speech" at the Twentieth Party Congress, 1956 -- Gamal Abdel Nasser and the Suez crisis, 1956 -- The Hungarian Revolution, 1956 -- Kwame Nkrumah and the independence of Ghana, 1957 -- The founding of the European Economic Community, 1957 -- France and the Algerian revolution, 1954-1962 -- Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution, 1959 -- Apartheid in South Africa from the 1950s to the 1970s -- The Berlin Wall, 1961 -- The Sino-Soviet split, 1959-1969 -- The "green revolution" in agriculture in the 1960s -- Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, 1961 -- Vatican II, 1962-1965 -- The Cuban missile crisis, 1962 -- The Beatles, 1964 -- The six-day war, 1967 -- Civil war in Nigeria (Biafra), 1967-1970 -- The 1968 Tet offensive -- May 1968 in France -- The Prague spring, 1968 -- Northern Ireland and "the troubles," 1969-1998 -- Pol Pot and the Cambodian incursion, 1970-1979 -- The great proletarian cultural revolution in China, 1966-1976 -- SALT I agreement, 1972 -- OPEC and the oil price shock, 1973 -- The overthrow of Salvador Allende in Chile, 1973 -- The Helsinki Accords, 1975 -- Terrorism in the 1970s -- First "test-tube" baby born, 1978 -- Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the Iranian revolution, 1979 -- Margaret Thatcher and the conservative revolution in Britain, 1979-1990 -- Solidarity in Poland, 1980-1990 -- The spread of AIDS in the 1980s -- The Israeli invasion of Lebanon, 1982 -- The Iran-Iraq war, 1980-1988 -- Chernobyl, 1986 -- The Montreal Protocol, 1987 -- The Sandinistas and the Contras in Nicaragua, 1981-1989 -- Vaclav Havel and the "velvet revolution," 1989 -- German reunification, 1989-1990 -- The breakup of the Soviet Union, 1991 -- Nelson Mandela and the end of apartheid in South Africa, 1989-1994 -- The dissolution of Yugoslavia in the 1990s -- The 1992 earth summit in Rio -- Genocide in Rwanda, 1994 -- Dolly the sheep cloned, 1997 -- The Asian economic meltdown at the end of the 1990s -- John Paul II's first twenty years as Pope, 1978-1999 -- The Internet in the 1990s -- The Chinese economy at the end of the twentieth century. |
| Responsibility: | Michael D. Richards and Philip F. Riley. |
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