Book is for school and college students taking courses in Modern World History and for undergraduates in History and International Relations. It is a complete, self-contained, lively and highly readable course, suitable for individual study or classroom use. The general reader who wishes to find out how the world got into its present state will also find the book useful.
Chapter 1. The world in 1914: outbreak of the First World War
Chapter 2. The First World War and its aftermath
Chapter 3. The League of Nations
Chapter 4. International relations, 1919–33
Chapter 5. International relations, 1933–9
Chapter 6. The Second World War, 1939–45
Chapter 7. The Cold War: problems of international relations after the Second World War
Chapter 8. The spread of communism outside Europe and its effects on international relations
Chapter 9. The United Nations Organization
Chapter 10. The two Europes, East and West since 1945
Chapter 11. Conflict in the Middle East
Chapter 12. The new world order and the war against global terrorism
Chapter 13. Italy, 1918–45: the first appearance of fascism
Chapter 14. Germany, 1918–45: the Weimar Republic and Hitler
Chapter 16. Russia and the revolutions, 1900–24
Chapter 17. The USSR and Stalin, 1924–53
Chapter 18. Continuing communism, collapse and aftermath, 1953 to the present
Chapter 20. China since 1949: the communists in control
Chapter 21. Communism in Korea and south-east Asia
Chapter 22. The USA before the Second World War
Chapter 23. The USA since 1945
Chapter 24. The end of the European empires
Chapter 25. Problems in Africa
Chapter 27. The changing world economy since 1900
Chapter 28. The world’s population