Timelines by Rees, John -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Halftitle Title Copyright CONTENTS List of Figures ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION: The shape of modern history 1.THE RISE AND FALL OF GREAT POWERS

The First World War The revolutions that made Russia The consequences of the First World War The rise of Fascism The Spanish Civil War The real history of the Second World War The Cold War The rise of China Obama and US power

2. EMPIRE AND AFTER

Afghanistan The Iranian Revolution Palestine The Vietnam War The Iraq War and the Iraq Inquiry Ireland A short history of immigration in Britain

3. THE RULERS AND THE RULED

Recessions and resistance The Civil Rights Movement 1968: the year that changed the world South Africa’s struggle for freedom Thatcherism The revolutions of 1989 Hugo Chavez’s Revolution Student revolts

CONCLUSION: The first decade of the twenty-first century FURTHER READING INDEX

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