A History of the World From the 20th to the 21st Century

War did not break out immediately between the French and the Vietminh in the north. By the spring of 1946, the French had taken ...

of the two Vietnam regimes towards each other, they would never take place. The French were sat- isfied at having found a way ou ...

To any schoolboy the Indian subcontinent appeared to form a natural unity. But, even under the glittering panoply of the viceroy ...

the militant Sikhs of northern India and the peoples of Kashmir. In 1947 the main enemy of the Sikhs was the Muslims, from whom ...

Indians increasingly in the governing of the country, while reserving to the British Crown, that is the viceroy, only what were ...

istration and the soldiers of the Raj). In April 1919 a large crowd gathered in Amritsar in the Punjab. The demonstrators were n ...

had thrown in his lot with Germany and Japan, Subhas Chandra Bose, attempted to win recruits, the majority of Indian prisoners p ...

between them at the Simla Conference of June 1945; a British Cabinet mission to India in March 1946 came no nearer to success. B ...

the tyranny of the majority over the minority. But an India without strong central authority accommodating autonomy for Muslim-d ...

How great the loss of life was has never been even roughly established; it was on a huge scale. During August and September, bet ...

Once carried to power in 1949, the communists were able to establish effective rule over the main- land of China and end the war ...

Movement (1919), demonstrating and rising in protests against both the conservative society and foreign subjugation. His patriot ...

existing pattern of Chinese armies, to be encour- aged by prospects of rape and booty or driven to fight by fear of punishment. ...

From the first there were strong contrasts between the Russian and Chinese revolutions. While Marx, Lenin and Stalin provided mo ...

communist association of nations; but every nation, Mao believed, must remain the master of its own destiny, completely sovereig ...

neying to Moscow in December 1949. He was received by Stalin without much warmth. After all, not only was his victorious leaders ...

would have ensued if a purist communist social revolution had been decreed from the start. The whole vast country of some 540 mi ...

There are regions in the world where conflict is endemic. Between the latitudes of 35 ̊N and 40 ̊N and 125 ̊SE and 130 ̊E a moun ...

Their ostensible task was merely to disarm the Japanese and occupy the country north of the 38th parallel. Under Soviet auspices ...

Koreans rigging the elections. So the Russians resisted that. Meanwhile in the part of the country under its control the America ...