The Complete Idiot's Guide to 20th-century HistoryPenguin, 1999 - 491 頁 A beginnger's guide to understanding the major events within the years 1900-1999. The book explains the century's great accomplishments, tragedies, and its most important people and events. |
內容
Contents | 1 |
A Nation Rises 1700s1840 | 15 |
Century of Iron 18441859 | 25 |
A Nation Torn and Reborn 18601869 | 35 |
Through the Golden Door 18701899 | 47 |
The Old World Dies 19001919 | 65 |
Rising and Sinking 19031912 | 81 |
The World Reshaped 19081913 | 99 |
Now I Am Become Death 19411945 | 247 |
Now I Am Become Death 19411945 | 249 |
A War Served Cold 19461949 | 265 |
American Dreams 19501969 | 283 |
The Back of the Bus 19541963 | 299 |
From Sputnik to the New Frontier 19551963 | 311 |
The Great Society 19641967 | 329 |
Vietnam the Moon and a Nation Called Woodstock | 341 |
Sarajevo Shooting 19141916 | 115 |
Saving Democracy 19171919 | 131 |
Hall of Mirrors | 140 |
Lost Generations 19201938 | 151 |
Victims and Heroes 19201929 | 167 |
The Party Ends 19291934 | 183 |
Happy Days Are Here Again 19341938 | 199 |
To Hell and Back 19391949 | 215 |
Total War 19411945 | 231 |
A New World 19701989 | 357 |
Hostage Situations 19741980 | 377 |
Years of Plague Years of Hope 19801989 | 395 |
Unfinished Century The 1990s | 411 |
Prosperity and Scandal 1993 | 427 |
Appendices | 445 |
B Talk of the Times | 451 |
Recommended Reading | 463 |
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