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

(Jacob Rumans) #1

  • Nicholas II with his family

  • French soldiers to arms,

  • German soldiers, to Paris,

  • Immigrants waiting in America

  • Lenin addressing a small street gathering

  • The Versailles conference

  • Mussolini in heroic pose

  • New Yorkers mill around Wall Street

  • An unemployed German war veteran

    • Franklin D. Roosevelt



  • Stalin at a collective farm in Tajikistan

  • Prussian honour allied to new barbarism

  • The fascist salute greets General Franco

  • Militia coming to the aid of the Republic

  • Viennese Jews scrub paving stones

  • Hitler and Mussolini,

    • Agreement Chamberlain waves the Anglo-German



  • A war leader. Winston Churchill,



    1. A surprise visit



  • Survivors of the Warsaw ghetto rising

    • over Nagasaki 9 August 1945. The mushroom cloud



  • Lucky those who were killed outright

    • forces African Americans served in the armed



  • A warm welcome for a GI in Belfort

  • The Potsdam Conference,

  • Devastated Dresden

  • Jews from a concentration camp

  • Booty for the Russian meets resistance

  • The reconstruction of western Europe

    • Ernest Bevin, Britain’s foreign secretary

    • The allied airlift

    • Gandhi and his followers

    • 7 June 1947. Lord Mountbatten

    • Seoul, or what’s left of it, in

    • US marines are caught by surprise

      • of Israel David Ben Gurion proclaims the State



    • Iran, February

    • Two leaders

    • Adenauer campaigning in Bamberg

    • The ‘Special Relationship’

    • Martin Luther King

    • The march on Washington

    • The image that depicted humiliation

    • Beijing demonstrators,

    • Japanese emperor Hirohito

    • Homeless children huddle together

    • Nigerian civil war victims,

    • Famine in Ethiopia,

    • The realities of apartheid

    • Johannesburg, South Africa

    • Nelson Mandela

      • House lawn A historic handshake on the White



    • Yeltsin,

    • No longer the ‘evil empire’

    • Students distribute underground literature

    • The Gaza Strip

    • The UN in a non-combatant role

    • New York, World Trade Center

    • Tony Blair,

    • Rwandan genocide,

    • empires, c. The British, French and German world

    • Europe in

    • The Americas

    • China and Japan in Asia,

    • The western front,

    • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, March

    • Peace settlements, 1919–23

    • The Middle East,

    • The Spanish Civil War,

      • 1935–October The expansion of Germany, January



    • Japan’s war in Asia, 1937–45

    • War in the Pacific, 1943–5

    • The German invasion of Russia, 1941–2

      • May Defeat of Italy and Germany, July 1943–

        • Austria, The occupation zones of Germany and

        • Europe after

        • The Middle East, 1960–2

        • Israel and the Arab states after

        • South-east Asia,

          • India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka,



        • Asia,

          • The emergence of independence in Africa,

          • of the former Soviet Union, The Russian Federation and new states



        • Germany, 1945–90

        • Europe,

        • The break-up of Yugoslavia, 1991–5

        • The partition of Bosnia,









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