Mastering Modern World History by Norman Lowe

Table of Contents

• List of figures
• List of maps
• List of tables
• List of illustrationsAcknowledgements
• Foreword by Keith Foreman
• Preface to the Third Edition

I War and International Relations

• The world in 1914: Outbreak of the First War
• The First World War and its aftermath
• The League of Nations
• International Relations 1919-33
• International Relations 1933-9
• The Second World War 1939-45
• The Cold War: Problems of international relations after the Second World War
• The spread of communication outside Europe and its effect on international relations
• The United Nations Organization
• The Two Europe's, East and West, since 1945
• Conflict in the Middle East

II The rise of fascism and governments of the right

• Italy 1918-45: The first appearance of Fascism
• Germany 1918-45: The Wiemar Republic and Hitler
• Japan and Spain

III Communism Rise and Decline

• Russia and the Revolution, 1900-24
• Communist rule in the USSR, 1924-91
• China 1900-49
• China since 1949: The communists in control

IV The United States of America

• The USA before the Second World War
• The USA since 1945

V Decolonization and After

• The end of the European Empires
• Problems in Africa

VI Global problems

• The changing world economy since 1900
• The world's population

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