Modern World History
Published on 6. June 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
176 pages
978-0-521-44575-7 (ISBN)
Description
Modern World History is a major GCSE core text in the Cambridge History Programme, focusing on international relations between 1914 and the collapse of communism in the late twentieth century. It meets the requirements of Modern World History courses and is particularly suitable for use with the MEG and SEG syllabuses. This lively and accessible text incorporates lead questions which focus on the core elements of the issues studied. Essential knowledge is provided through background briefings and analysis is encouraged through the investigations provided. There are regular review sections to clarify the themes studied and allow opportunities for revision. The text uses interpretations from recent research in the central issues studied and contains a wide range of sources, illustrations, maps, diagrams and activities.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Interest Age: From 14 to 16 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 276 mm
Width: 220 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
540 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-44575-7 (9780521445757)
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Other editions
New editions
Paul Grey | Rosemarie Little | Tony McAleavy
Modern World History Combined edition
Book
07/2001
2nd Edition
Cambridge University Press
€27.59
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Content
1. The origins of the First World War; 2. The First World War; 3. The Russian Revolution; 4. Paris 1919; 5. Versailles; 6. The other peace treaties; 7. A harsh treaty? 8. The peace treaties of 1919-23; 9. Aftermath: the immediate consequences of the treaties; 10. The League of Nations; 11. Reparations: The Dawes and Young Plans; 12. Locarno; 13. The rise of Hitler; 14. The Depression; 15. Crisis in Manchuria; 16. Mussolini; 17. The conquest of Abyssinia; 18. The rise and fall of the League of Nations; 19. From the Rhineland to Anschluss; 20. Munich and the destruction of Czechoslovakia; 21. Different views of appeasement; 22. The Nazi-Soviet Pact; 23. Hitler's War; 24. The 1930s: the road to war; 25. The Second World War; 26. The fall of the European empires; 27. The roots of the Cold War; 28. 1945: the breakdown of the wartime alliance; 29. The Soviet take-over of Eastern Europe; 30. The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan; 31. American motives at the start of the Cold War; 32. The Berlin Blockade and NATO; 33. The start of the Cold War; 34. Communist China; 35. The Korean War; 36. The Cuban missile crisis; 37. The Cold War and the Middle East; 38. The Vietnam War; 39. Containing communism; 40. The United Nations; 41. European unity; 42. Tito and Stalin; 43. The Red Army in Budapest and Prague; 44. Building the Berlin Wall; 45. Solidarity; 46. Gorbachev and the fall of the Soviet Empire; 47. The Soviet Empire 1948-91.