Table of Contents

Preface
One Hundred Important Events in 20th Century World History
The First Manned Flight, 1903
The Revolution of 1905 in Russia
Pablo Picasso and Cubism, 1907
The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920
The 1911 Revolution in China
The Suffrage Movement in Britain before World War I, 1906-1914
The Battle of the Somme, 1916
The French Army Mutinies, 1917
The Home Front in World War I, 1914-1918
The 1917 Russian Revolution
The Paris Peace Conference, 1919
The May 4th Movement in China, 1919
The British Mandate of Palestine, 1922
The New Economic Policy (NEP) in Russia, 1921-1928
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and the Founding of the Republic of Turkey, 1923
The Northern Expedition in China, 1926-1928
Mao Zedong's "Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan, March 1927"
Alexander Fleming and the Discovery of Penicillin, 1928
Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents, 1930
Gandhi's Salt March, 1930
The Bauhaus in Weimar Germany, 1919-1933
The Great Depression in the 1930s
Stalin's First Five-Year Plan, 1928-1932
The Nazi "Seizure of Power" in 1933
Mao Zedong and the Long March, 1934-1935
General Broadcasting of Television in England, 1936
Kita Ikki and Ultranationalism in Japan, 1936-1937
The Rape of Nanking, 1937
The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
The Munich Agreement, 1938
Kristallnacht: (The Night of Broken Glass), 1938
The Nazi-Soviet Pact, 1939
The Battle of Stalingrad, 1942-1943
The Holocaust, 1941-1945
D-Day, 1944
The Yalta Conference, 1945
The Use of Atomic Bombs in World War II, 1945
The Establishment of the United Nations, 1945
The Invention of the Computer, 1944-1946
Juan Perón and Argentine Politics, 1946-1955
Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnamese War against the French, 1946-1954
The Independence of India and Pakistan, 1947
The Establishment of the State of Israel, 1948
The Marshall Plan (The European Recovery Act), 1948-1951
The Berlin Blockade and Airlift, 1948-1949
The Victory of the Chinese Communist Party, 1949
The Japanese Economic Miracle in the 1950s
The Korean War, 1950-1953
The Discovery of the Double Helical Structure of DNA, 1953
The Guatemalan Coup, 1954
Khrushchev's "Secret Speech" at the Twentieth Party Congress, 1956
Gamal Abdel Nasser and the Suez Crisis, 1956
The Hungarian Revolution, 1956
Kwame Nkrumah and the Independence of Ghana, 1957
The Founding of the European Economic Community, 1957
France and the Algerian Revolution, 1954-1962
Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution, 1959
Apartheid in South Africa from the 1950s to the 1970s
The Berlin Wall, 1961
The Sino-Soviet Split, 1959-1969
The "Green Revolution" in Agriculture in the 1960s
Yuri Gagarin, the First Man in Space, 1961
Vatican II, 1962-1965
The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
The Beatles, 1964
The Six-Day War, 1967
Civil War in Nigeria (Biafra), 1967-1970
The 1968 Tet Offensive
May 1968 in France
The Prague Spring, 1968
Northern Ireland and "The Troubles," 1969-1998
Pol Pot and the Cambodian Incursion, 1970-1978
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China, 1966-1976
SALT I Agreement, 1972
OPEC and the Oil Price Shock, 1973
The Overthrow of Salvador Allende in Chile, 1973
The Helsinki Accords, 1975
Terrorism in the 1970s
First "Test-Tube" Baby Born, 1978
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the Iranian Revolution, 1979
Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Revolution in Britain, 1979-1990
Solidarity in Poland, 1980-1990
The Spread of AIDS in the 1980s
The Israeli Invasion of Lebanon, 1982
The Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988
Chernobyl, 1986
The Montreal Protocol, 1987
The Sandinistas and the Contras in Nicaragua, 1981-1989
Vaclav Havel and the "Velvet Revolution," 1989
German Reunification, 1989-1990
The Breakup of the Soviet Union, 1991
Nelson Mandela and the End of Apartheid in South Africa, 1989-1994
The Dissolution of Yugoslavia in the 1990s
The 1992 Earth Summit in Rio
Genocide in Rwanda, 1994
Dolly the Sheep Cloned, 1997
The Asian Economic Meltdown at the End of the 1990s
John Paul II's First Twenty Years as Pope 1978-1999
The Internet in the 1990s
The Chinese Economy at the End of the Twentieth Century
Index

About the Author

MICHAEL D. RICHARDS is Samford Professor of History at Sweet Briar College. He is the coauthor of Twentieth-Century Europe: A Brief History (1998) and has written for a number of reference works. In addition to articles and book reviews for scholarly publications, he writes op-ed pieces for the History News Service and his work has appeared in a number of newspapers around the country.

PHILIP F. RILEY teaches in the Department of History at James Madison University. He is coauthor of The Global Experience: Readings in World History (1987) and many articles on European history. He is a recipient of the James Madison University Distinguished Teaching Award.

Reviews

?This concise compilation of 600+ original topics and hundreds of authoritative sources will be invaluable to students and teachers as a starting point for research....a great ready-reference source on world history.?-The Book Report

"This concise compilation of 600+ original topics and hundreds of authoritative sources will be invaluable to students and teachers as a starting point for research....a great ready-reference source on world history."-The Book Report