Mastering modern world history / by Norman Lowe

Includes index.

PART I: WAR AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS -- The world in 1914: outbreak of the First World War -- The First World War and its aftermath -- The league of Nations -- International relations 1919-33 -- International relations 1933-39 -- The Second World War 1939-45 -- The Cold War: problems of international relations after the The Second World War -- The spread of communism outside Europe and its effect on International relations -- The United Nations Organization -- The two Europes, east and west since 1945 -- Conflict in the middle east -- The new world order and the war against global terrorism -- PART II: THE RICE OF FASCISM AND GOVERNMENT OFTHE RIGHT -- Italy 1918-45: the first appearance of fascism -- Germany 1918-45: the Weimar Republic and Hitler -- Japan and Spain -- PART III: COMMUNISM: RICE AND DECLINE -- Russia and the revolutions 1900-24 -- The USSR and Stalin 1924-53 -- Continuing communism, collapse and aftermath 1953 to the present -- China 1900-49 -- China since 1949, the communists in control -- Communism in Korea and South East Asia -- PART IV: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA -- The USA before the Second World War -- The USA since 1945 -- PART V: DECOLONIZATION AND AFTER -- The end of the European empires -- Problems of Africa -- Latin America -- PART VI: GLOBAL PROBLEMS -- The changing world economy since 1900 -- The world's population