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

claimed Taiwan as part of China, the US contin- ued to give aid to Chiang Kai-shek, though no American combat units were sent to ...

the invasion. The following day the president returned to Washington. The earlier American policy of involving the United Nation ...

the war. MacArthur, who saw himself uniquely able to interpret the oriental mind, did not believe that the Chinese would risk wa ...

amphibious operation on the Korean west coast at Inchon, landing American troops with naval and air support far to the north of ...

a negotiated settlement and the withdrawal of outside forces from Korea. In Washington this was interpreted as an attempt to sav ...

an unprecedented low of 24 per cent. But it recovered. Reflection led to reappraisal, to a less emotional response and to the re ...

fascism, the Communist Party attracted many, including intellectuals, who were idealists and wanted to create a better world. Ne ...

1 Part IX THE ENDING OF EUROPEAN DOMINANCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, 1919–80 ...

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The Middle East is ridden with strife thinly papered over. Arab nation is divided from Arab nation, fundamentalist Muslims from ...

Afghanistan and Iraq dominated world attention. Another essentially Western conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians appea ...

The most religiously and ethnically divided country is mountainous Lebanon, among whose population of 3.7 million today no one g ...

Copts (Greek for Egyptian), who have followed Christianity under their own patriarchs. Most members of an ancient community of J ...

Russians, but the US Senate rejected the notion. Nevertheless, by the Treaty of Sèvres an inde- pendent Armenian republic was re ...

After the conclusion of the peace settlements fol- lowing the First World War, Britain attempted, for a time successfully, to se ...

after the First World War turned out to be far more difficult than the British had expected. Not all the different ethnic and re ...

promised Britain its full support and unrestricted use of all Egyptian facilities and territory. Under the terms of the treaty t ...

occupation of Iraq by British and Indian troops in May 1941. For the remainder of the war, and indeed for some years after, Brit ...

Morocco. Nationalist demonstrations and, all the more so, rebellions were harshly suppressed. Complete military control was the ...

Biblical Palestine was a familiar concept in the West, but at the close of the First World War few people in Britain or elsewher ...