The story of the world : history for the classical child. Volume 4, The modern age, from Victoria's empire to the end of the USSR

9781945841903
1945841907

Revised edition ; with new maps, illustrations and timelines

xiv, 624 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

4-8

Modern age, from Victoria's empire to the end of the USSR

Includes index

Britain's empire
West against East
British invasions
Resurrection and rebellion --American Civil War
Two tries for freedom
Two empires, three republics,and one kingdom
Becoming modern
Two more empires, two rebellions
Canal to the East and a very dry desert
Far parts of the world
Unhappy unions
Old-fashioned emperor and the Red Sultan
Two Czars and two emperors
Small countries with large invaders
Expanding United States
China's troubles
Europe and the countries just East
China, Vietnam - and France
Revolution in the Americas ... war in the world
Revolution begins, and the Great War ends
National uprisings
"Peace" and a man of war
King and II Duce
Armies in China
Great crash, and what came of it
Civil War and invasion
The Second World War
End of World War II
Partitioned countries
Western bullies and American money
Africa and China after World War II
Communism in Asia
Dictators in South America and Africa
Cold War
Struggles and assassinations
Two short wars and one long one
Two ways of fighting
1980s in the East and the Mideast
1980s in USSR
Communism crumbles, but survives
End of the twentieth century
Table of dates - a chronology of the Modern Age

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3209077

Moore, Justin, editor
Park, Sarah, illustrator
Rountree, Elizabeth, author
West, Jeff, illustrator