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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Table of Contents:
- 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.