Term paper resource guide to twentieth-century world history

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 Ataturk 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 Peron 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