Mastering Modern World History
3rd Edition
Published on 20. June 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
544 pages
978-0-333-68523-5 (ISBN)
Description
This new edition of the best-selling coursebook is ideal for GCSE and other first examinations in history. It meets the requirements of the revised, post-Dearing Modern World History courses. * The third edition contains new material in all chapters and contains an even wider range of maps and illustrations * Coverage has been brought right up to date, and includes sections on recent important developments in world history, such as the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the civil wars in Rwanda and Yugoslavia * Questions have been rewritten, with lots of new source material, to bring them into line with the most recent GCSE papers
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Series
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Adult education
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
maps, illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 157 mm
Weight
799 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-68523-5 (9780333685235)
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Content
PART 1: WAR AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - The World in 1914: Outbreak of the First World War - The First World War and Its Aftermath - The League of Nations - International Relations 1919-33 - International Relations 1933-39 - The Second World War, 1939-45 - The Cold War: Problems of International Relations after the Second World War - The Spread of Communism outside Europe and Its Effect on International Relations - The United Nations Organisation - The Two Europes, East and West since 1945 - Conflict in the Middle East - PART 2: THE RISE OF FASCISM AND GOVERNMENTS OF THE RIGHT - Italy 1918-45: the First Appearance of Fascism - Germany 1918-45: the Weimar Republic and Hitler - Japan and Spain - PART 3: COMMUNISM: RISE AND DECLINE - Russia and the Revolutions, 1900-24 - Communist Rule in the USSR, 1924-91 - China 1900-49 - China since 1949: the Communists in Control - PART 4: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - The USA before the Second World War - The USA since 1945 - PART 5: DE-COLONISATION AND AFTER - The End of the European Empires - Problems in Africa - PART 6: GLOBAL PROBLEMS - The Changing World Economy since 1900 - The World's Population