(The) World since 1919 / by Walter Consuelo Langsam and Otis C. Mitchell

Includes bibliography and index.

THE AFTERMATH OF WAR: The peace of Paris, 1919-1920 -- The league of nations -- The postwar search for international equilibrium -- NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS, 1919-1939: Great Britain and Ireland -- France -- Fascist Italy -- Spain -- Germany -- Central Europe -- The Soviet Union -- Southeastern Europe -- Turkey for the Turks -- The arousing of Asia and Africa -- Latin America -- The United States -- THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND AFTER: Return of war -- The first year of the war in the West -- The spread of the war - to 1943 -- Allied victory -- When there is no peace -- The course of the Cold War (1945-1960) -- The course of the Cold War (1960-1970) -- Events in the Americas in the post world war II period -- The Soviet Union, the satellite bloc, and their neighbors -- The two Germanies and the other states of western Europe -- Britain, France, and Italy in the postwar years -- Attempts to integrate Europe -- The emergence of a new Asia -- The rise of new nations in Africa and the middle east