Twentieth Century History For Dummies20世纪历史傻瓜书

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Dr Sean Lang studied history at Oxford and is the author of the best-selling British History For Dummies and European History For Dummies. He is coeditor of Twentieth Century History Review, and regularly appears on radio and television talking about hist

书籍目录

IntroductionPart Ⅰ: The Great War Years: 1900-19  Chapter 1: Overview of a Century  Chapter 2: Fin de siecle-wrapping up the Nineteenth Century  Chapter 3: The Great War: 1914-18Part Ⅱ: The Years of the Great Dictators: 1919-45  Chapter 4: The Red Flag-Communism  Chapter 5: Men in Black(Shirts): The Right-Wing Dictators  Chapter 6: The Twenties: The Decade that Roared  Chapter 7: I'm the King of the World! Europe's Empires  Chapter 8: Depression and Aggression  Chapter 9: The War of the WorldPart Ⅲ: The Divided World: 1945-89  Chapter 10: You're Cold as Ice! The Cold War  Chapter 11: Don's Let the Sun Go Down on Me; The End of Empires  Chapter 12: Africa's Wind of Change  Chapter 13: Going Bananas: Latin America  Chapter 14: Asian Tigers  Chapter 15: Disneyland: Post-War America  Chapter 16: Red on Red: Russia and ChinaPart Ⅳ: To the Millenniun  Chapter 17: Muddle in the Middle East  Chapter 18: Europe Rides Again  Chapter 19: New Order: Wrapping up the Twentieth Century  Chapter 20: And the Living Is Easy-for SomePart Ⅴ: The Part of Tens  Chapter 21: Ten Iconic Images  Chapter 22: Ten Triumphs of Technology  Chapter 23: The Films That Made and Impact  Chapter 24: The International Bodies that Made a Difference  Chapter 25: The BAD IdeasIndex

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The 20 th  Century brought revolutionary changes to our world and our lives: the human population of the world tripled, space travel became reality, two world wars and a host of other conflicts were fought, and huge advances in science, technology and communication resulted in the globalised world we know today.       Enormous steps were made in wiping out widespread discrimination, from the women’s suffrage movement leading to women’s right to vote in western countries, to the civil rights movement in the US challenging racial segregation. The political landscape has provided lots of excitement, with charismatic and scandalous presidents in the White House, the first female prime minister in the UK, dictators working to various manifestoes across the world, the Middle East conflict and the changing balance of political and economic “superpowers”.       Technological advances have resulted in nigh on universal adoption and dependence on automobiles, computers, mobiles and other wireless technology. The exponential rate at which technology is evolving is one of the variables that make the twentieth century so fascinating.       All this and much, much more happened in a mere one hundred years – where did we find the time to do so much?!  Twentieth Century History For Dummies  tells all...

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