THE MODERN
WORLD
1914 –PRESENT270 You often wish you
were dead
The Battle of Passchendaele276 History will not forgive
us if we do not assume
power now
The October Revolution280 This is not peace.
This is an armistice
for 20 years
The Treaty of Versailles281 Death is the solution to
all problems. No man—
no problem
Stalin assumes power282 Any lack of confidence
in the economic future
of the United States
is foolish
The Wall Street Crash284 The truth is that men
are tired of liberty
The Reichstag Fire286 In starting and waging
a war, it is not right that
matters but victory
Nazi invasion of Poland294 The Final Solution of
the Jewish Question
The Wannsee Conference296 All we did was fly
and sleep
The Berlin Airlift298 At the stroke of the
midnight hour, when the
world sleeps, India will
awake to life and freedom
Indian independence
and partition302 The name of our
state shall be Israel
The establishment of Israel304 The Long March is a
manifesto, a propaganda
force, a seeding-machine
The Long March306 Ghana, your beloved
country, is free forever
Nkrumah wins
Ghanaian independence308 We’re eyeball to eyeball,
and I think the other
fellow just blinked
The Cuban Missile Crisis310 People of the whole
world are pointing
to the satellite
The launch of Sputnik311 I have a dream
The March on Washington312 I am not going
to lose Vietnam
The Gulf of Tonkin Incident314 A revolution is not a
bed of roses
The Bay of Pigs invasion316 Scatter the old world,
build the new
The Cultural Revolution318 We shall defend it with
our blood and strength,
and we shall meet
aggression with
aggression and evil
with evil
The Suez Crisis322 The Iron Curtain
is swept aside
The fall of the Berlin Wall324 All power to the people
The 1968 protests325 Never, never, and
never again
The release of Nelson Mandela326 Create an unbearable
situation of total
insecurity with no hope
of further survival or life
The Siege of Sarajevo327 Today, our fellow citizens,
our way of life, our very
freedom came under attack
The 9/11 attacks328 You affect the world by
what you browse
The launch of the first website330 A crisis that began in
the mortgage markets
of America has brought
the world’s financial
system close to collapse
The global financial crisis334 This is a day about our
entire human family
Global population
exceeds 7 billion340 Futher events342 GLOSSARY
344 INDEX
351 QUOTE ATTRIBUTIONS
352 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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