60 The prosperous Pacific Rim II:
Australia and New Zealand 664
XIV LATIN AMERICA AFTER 1945:
PROBLEMS UNRESOLVED 679
61 The world of Latin America 681
62 Central America in revolution:
Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras,
El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama
and Mexico 706
XV AFRICA AFTER 1945: CONFLICT
AND THE THREAT OF FAMINE 719
63 The end of white rule in West Africa 721
64 Freedom and conflict in Central and
East Africa 738
65 War and famine in the Horn of Africa 748
66 Southern Africa: from white
supremacy to democracy 754
XVI THE UNITED STATES AND THE
SOVIET BLOC AFTER 1963: THE
GREAT TRANSFORMATION 777
67 The Soviet Union and the wider
world, the Brezhnev years: crushing
the Prague Spring and the failure of
reform 779
68 The United States: from great
aspirations to disillusion 789
69 The Soviet Union, crisis and reform:
Gorbachev, Yeltsin and Putin 797
70 The United States, global power:
Reagan, Bush and Clinton 814
XVII WESTERN EUROPE GATHERS
STRENGTH: AFTER 1968 829
71 The German Federal Republic:
reaching maturity 831
72 Contemporary Italy: progress despite
politics 843
73 How to make Britain more
prosperous: Conservative and Labour
remedies 849
74 The revival of France 864
75 The European Community 874
XVIII GLOBAL CHANGE: FROM THE
20th TO 21st CENTURY 885
76 The Iron Curtain disintegrates: the
death of communism in Eastern
Europe 887
77 Continuing turmoil and war in the
Middle East 903
78 The wars of Yugoslavia: a requiem 918
79 The ‘war on terror’ 927
80 Into the new millennium: the
twenty-first century 944
Suggestions for further reading 958
Index 976
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