Headlines in history the 1900s
Offering thirty-three readings on key events in the history of the 1900s, this book focuses on scientific knowledge, assembly-line mass production, world wars, the Cold War, the danger of nuclear warfare, and political assassinations.
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San Diego, CA
Greenhaven press
2001
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Headlines in history |b the 1900s |c James Miller, book editor |
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| 260 | |a San Diego, CA |b Greenhaven press |c 2001 | ||
| 300 | |a 384 p. |b ill. |c 24cm | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index | ||
| 505 | |a Chapter 1 -- Law of acceleration -- 1900: Promise of a new century -- Votes for women -- Revolution ravages Mexico -- Chapter 2 -- Coming of world war I -- In the trenches of world war I -- Bolsheviks take power -- Wilson's fourteen points -- Chapter 3 -- Treaty of versailles -- Revolution in physics -- Great depression: Unemployment -- Chapter 4 -- Mussolini defines totalitarianism -- Hitler -- Stalin starves ukraine -- Stalin's great terror -- New deal: Middle way -- Chapter 5 -- Coming of the pacific war -- Peasant revolution in China -- Settling scores in a chinese village, 1945 -- Nonviolence on trail: Gandhi responds to world war II -- Chapter 6 -- Battle of britain -- Holocaust: Revolution -- Last letter from stalingrad -- Einstein alerts Roosevelt about nuclear weaponry -- Truman drops the bomb -- Chapter 7 -- Who started the cold war -- 1950's: Emergence of the western youth culture -- President Eisenhower warns of the military industrial complex -- Eyeball to eyeball: Cuban missile crisis -- Man lands on the moon -- Chapter 8 -- Martin Luther King Jr. goes to jail -- "Gotta be this or that": End of colonialism -- Cultural revolution convulses China -- Chairman mao speaks -- Tet and the Vietnam war -- Crises of October 1973: Middle east conflict, oil, and watergate -- Islam against the west -- Chapter 9 -- Fall of communism -- President Vaclav Havel's new year's day address, 1990 -- After apartheid -- Technological revolution. | ||
| 520 | |a Offering thirty-three readings on key events in the history of the 1900s, this book focuses on scientific knowledge, assembly-line mass production, world wars, the Cold War, the danger of nuclear warfare, and political assassinations. | ||
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