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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Setting the Stage: Overview of the Nineteenth Century | |
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| The Great War: 1914-1918 | |
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| The Inter-War Years: Immediate Consequences of The Great War | |
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| Political Ideologies of the Interwar Years | |
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| World War II | |
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| Conflict and Convergence: 1945-1950 | |
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| The Cold War Begins | |
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| Khrushchev's Cold War | |
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| The Problems of Decolonization | |
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| The Cold War Cools: 1965-1979 | |
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| Conflict in the Middle East | |
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| The Cold War Ends | |
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| Restructuring Relationships | |
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| The Legacy of the Twentieth Century | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Setting the Stage: Overview of the Nineteenth Century | |
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| Empires Structure the Globe | |
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| New Imperialism | |
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| The Direct Effects of Industrialization | |
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| Ideological Revolutions against Conservatism | |
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| The World in 1900 | |
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| The Great War: 1914-1918 | |
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| Changes in Europe | |
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| Surprise and Stalemate | |
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| Revolutions Restructure Russia | |
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| The United States Enters and the Great War Ends | |
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| The Inter-War Years: Immediate Consequences of The Great War | |
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| The Treaty of Versailles | |
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| Imperial Demise and Restructuring | |
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| The Great Depression | |
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| Technology Marches Forward | |
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| Political Ideologies of the Interwar Years | |
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| Democracy | |
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| Authoritarian/Military Dictatorships | |
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| Communism | |
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| Fascism | |
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| The Rise of Nazi Germany | |
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| World War II | |
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| The War Begins in Europe: 1939-1941 | |
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| Opening the Eastern Front: 1941-1942 | |
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| War in the Pacific: 1941-1943 | |
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| The North African Theater | |
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| Germany on the Defensive: 1943-1945 | |
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| The Final Phase in the Pacific: 1944-1945 | |
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| The Human Cost of the War | |
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| Conflict and Convergence: 1945-1950 | |
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| Worldwide Conflict | |
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| Western Europe on the Front Line | |
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| Regional Conflicts | |
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| International and Regional Convergence | |
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| The Cold War Begins | |
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| US Occupation of Japan | |
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| The "Other" Communism: Mao's People's Republic of China | |
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| Conflict in Korea | |
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| The Arms Race | |
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| Battle-by-proxy | |
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| Khrushchev's Cold War | |
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| Changes in the USSR | |
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| Peaceful Coexistence | |
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| Challenges in the Satellite Bloc | |
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| The Soviet Sphere of Influence Reaches the Western Hemisphere | |
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| The Problems of Decolonization | |
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| The Forces Behind Decolonization | |
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| Africa | |
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| Asia | |
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| The Non-Aligned Movement | |
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| The Cold War Cools: 1965-1979 | |
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| The Brezhnev Era in the East | |
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| Changes for the West | |
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| A Shift in Cold War Thinking | |
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| Conflict in the Middle East | |
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| Arab-Israeli Relations | |
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| Iraq and Iran | |
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| The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan | |
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| The Cold War Ends | |
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| Reagan and Gorbachev | |
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| The Iron Curtain Unravels | |
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| Revolution Reaches the USSR | |
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| The Soviet Empire Crumbles | |
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| Restructuring Relationships | |
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| Restructuring Global Politics and Economics | |
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| Restructuring the Nation-State | |
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| Backlash | |
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| The Legacy of the Twentieth Century | |
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| Integration | |
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| Disintegration | |
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| Competing Perspectives of the Twenty-first Century | |