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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Contents
Introduction
Science & Technology
GLOSSARY
The Theory of Relativity
Splitting the Atom
The Green Revolution
Profile: Albert Einstein
Transistor
Sputnik
Global Broadcast of ‘All you Need is Love’
The World Wide Web
Arts & Entertainment
GLOSSARY
Les Demoiselles D’Avignon
The Rite of Spring
The Jazz Singer
Profile: Pablo Picasso
‘The Peanut Vendor’
Pong
Woodstock
Bollywood
War & Conflicts
GLOSSARY
The Boxer Rebellion
Japanese Defeat of Russia
The Battle of the Somme
Profile: Adolf Hitler
Hiroshima
The First Arab-Israeli War
Dien Bien Phu
Soviet Defeat in Afghanistan
Politics & Society
GLOSSARY
‘Kaiser Wilson’
The Long March
The Bandung Conference
Profile: Eva Perón
The Cuban Missile Crisis
‘I Have a Dream’
The Year of the Barricades
Stonewal
Argentina’s Dirty War
The End of Apartheid
Industry & Economics
GLOSSARY
The Model T Ford
Five Year Plans
The Wall Street Crash
‘Pile it High, Sell it Low’
Profile: John Maynard Keynes
The New Deal
The Volta Dam
The Arab Oil Embargo
Medicine & Health
GLOSSARY
Spanish Flu
Sloppy Petri Dish
Double Helix
The Pill
Profile: Rosalind Franklin
Eradication of Smallpox
HIV/AIDS
Events, Triumphs & Tragedies
GLOSSARY
Red Rubber Scandal in The Belgian Congo
The Spirit of St. Louis
The Holocaust
The Cultural Revolution
Death in Dallas
Profile: Patrice Lumumba
‘One Giant Leap’
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
Appendices
Resources
Notes on Contributors
Index
Acknowledgements
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