Key features of modern history 2

Contents
Using Key Features of Modern History 2
PART A CORE STUDY
Chapter 1 Power and Authority in the Modern World 1919–46
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Survey: Peace treaties that ended the First World War and their consequences
1.3 The rise of the dictatorships after the First World War
1.4 The Nazi regime to 1939
1.5 The search for peace and security in the world 1919–46
PART B NATIONAL STUDIES
Chapter 2 Australia 1918–49 [obook-only chapter]
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Survey: Australia and the aftermath of the First World War
2.3 The changing face of Australia in the 1920s
2.4 Government policy 1918–49
2.5 Post-Second World War influences
Chapter 3 India 1942–84 [obook-only chapter]
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Survey: India towards independence
3.3 India as a new nation 1947–64
3.4 India under Indira Gandhi
3.5 Indian foreign policy
Chapter 4 Japan 1904–37
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Survey: Japan as an emerging power
4.3 Challenges to traditional power and authority in the 1920s
4.4 Rise of militarism in the 1930s
4.5 Japanese foreign policy
Chapter 5 Russia and the Soviet Union 1917–41
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Survey: Bolshevik consolidation of power
5.3 Bolsheviks and the power struggle following the death of Lenin
5.4 The Soviet state under Stalin
5.5 Soviet foreign policy
Chapter 6 USA 1919–41
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Survey: The USA in the aftermath of the First World War and its policies in the 1920s
6.3 The Great Depression and its impact
6.4 US society 1919–41
6.5 US foreign policy 1919–41
PART C PEACE AND CONFLICT
Chapter 7 Conflict in Indochina 1954–79
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Survey: Decolonisation in Indochina 1946–54
7.3 Conflict in Vietnam 1954–64
7.4 The Second Indochina War
7.5 The spread of the conflict to Cambodia and Laos
Chapter 8 Conflict in the Pacific 1937–51
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Survey: Growth of Pacific tensions
8.3 The outbreak and course of the Pacific War
8.4 Civilians at war
8.5 The end of the conflict
Chapter 9 Conflict in Europe 1935–45
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Survey: Growth of European tensions
9.3 German foreign policy
9.4 Course of the European war
9.5 Civilians at war
9.6 End of the conflict
Chapter 10 The Cold War 1945–91
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Survey: Origins of the Cold War 1945–53
10.3 Development of the Cold War to 1968
10.4 Détente
10.5 Renewal and end of the Cold War
PART D CHANGE IN THE MODERN WORLD
Chapter 11 The Cultural Revolution to Tiananmen Square 1966–89 [obook only chapter]
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Survey: Political and social conditions in China 1949–66
11.3 The Cultural Revolution
11.4 Deng Xiaoping and the modernisation of China
11.5 The Tiananmen Square protests
Chapter 12 Civil Rights in the USA 1945–68
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Survey: The position of black persons at the start of the period
12.3 Struggles for civil rights
12.4 Key events in the Civil Rights Movement
12.5 Achievements of the Civil Rights Movement
Chapter 13 The Nuclear Age 1945–2011
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Survey: The birth of the Nuclear Age
13.3 The firrst use of atomic weapons and nuclear deterrence
13.4 The nuclear threat
13.5 Towards nuclear disarmament
13.6 The benefits and risks of the Nuclear Age
Chapter 14 Apartheid in South Africa 1960–94
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Survey: the nature of the apartheid system in 1960
14.3 National resistance to apartheid
14.4 Repression and control by South African governments
14.5 The end of apartheid
Glossary
Index
Acknowledgements
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