Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Maps List of Tables List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Preface to the Fifth Edition PART I: WAR AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 1. The World in 1914: Outbreak of the First World War 2. The First World War and Its Aftermath 3. International Relations, 1919-1933 4. International Relations, 1933-1939 5. The Second World War, 1939-1945 6. The Cold War: Problems of International Relations After the Second World War 7. The Spread of Communism Outside Europe And Its Effects On International Relations 8. The United Nations Organization 9. The Two Europes, East and West Since 1945 10. Conflict in the Middle East 11. The New World Order and the War Against Global Terrorism PART II: THE RISE OF FASCISM AND GOVERNMENTS OF THE RIGHT 12. Italy 1918-45: The First Appearance of Fascism 13. Germany 1918-45: The Weimar Republic and Hitler 14. Japan and Spain PART III: COMMUNISM RISE AND DECLINE 15. Russia and the Revolutions, 1900-24 16. The USSR and Stalin, 1924-53 17. Continuing Communism, Collapse and Aftermath, 1953-2005 18. China 1900-49 19. China Since 1949: The Communists In Control 20. Communism in Korea and South East Asia PART IV: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 21. The USA Before The Second World War 22. The USA Since 1945 PART V: DE-COLONIZATION AND AFTER 23. The End of the European Empires

About the Author

Norman Lowe has had many years' experience of teaching history at all levels and for twenty years was head of history at Nelson and Colne Tertiary College in Lancashire, UK. He is the author of Mastering Modern British History and Mastering Twentieth-Century Russian History.