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The United States to 1910 -- morality, sports and music, blacks, reforms
The Mexican Revolution -- Zapata, Pancho Villa, U.S. invasion, the Carranza presidency
Turn of the century Imperialism: 1894 to 1908 -- Boxer Rebellion, empire in Africa, France in Vietnam, Russo-Japanese War
Toward World War One: 1901-08 -- Empire and Franz Joseph, German diplomacy
Europe's Slide to War -- policy failures, the assassination; rush to war and finding blame
The War to December 1916 -- failed offensives, stupidity, exhaustion
Western and Italian Fronts in 1917 -- new offensives by the French, British and Italians
Russian Revolution Begins-- the tsar is replaced by the Duma and people's councils) appear
The U.S. Declares War -- German strategies, clamour for war, the draft and moves against dissent
Power to the Soviets -- the Bolsheviks take power; instabiliities to July 1918
Germany's 1918 Offensives and an Armistice -- delusions, negotiations; joy in the streets
Failed Uprisings in Germany, 1918-19 -- the attempted Spartacist Coup in Berlin and a Soviet regime in Munich
The Treaty of Versailles -- Paris Peace Conference, 1919, and repercussions
Turkey and Islam, 1876-1930 -- Ataturk, national independence and secularization
Palestine, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq, to 1930 -- imperialism and resistance.
Empire in Egypt and the Sudan, to 1929 -- British rule; the Muslim Brotherhood
Afghanistan, to the 1930s -- the monarchy, assassinations and attempted modernization
Central Asia under the Russians, to 1936 -- creation of Central Asian republics
Jews and Arabs in Palestine, to 1939 -- Jews and Muslims in peace and conflict under British rule
Ibn Saud, Wahhabis, and Oil, to 1945 -- Ibn Saud creates and expands his kingdom, allied with the British
Civil War, Lenin and the Rise of Stalin -- 1918 to 1930
China in Revolution, to 1927 -- the republic replaces Manchu rule and struggles for an identity
Japanese Politics and Society, to 1927 -- labor, business, politics, Western culture, depression and repression
Britain, Ireland and India -- recovery and conflict with tradition
France -- Social conditions, Action Française, France's military
French Colonialism in Vietnam -- French rule in Vietnam and Ho Chi Minh
Africa and Imperialism -- French, Italian, Spanish and British
Mussolini and Fascism in Italy -- Mussolini from youth to Prime Minister
Weimar Republic and Adolf Hitler -- the Weimar Republic, Hitler, extremism and conservatism
The U.S. in Hawaii, the Philippines and Latin America -- conservative directions
The U.S. to the Crash of 1929 -- race, repression, Harding, morality, sports, Coolidge and Hoover
The Great Depression, to 1935 -- the U.S., Europe and Latin America
Hitler and Germany, 1927-35 -- Hitler becomes chancellor, reforms Germany's economy and rearms
Austria, Left and Right, to 1934 -- Social Democrats are crushed by Rightists
Passivity and Aggression in Europe to 1936 -- voices for peace, including Hitler's, and fear of the left in France
Spain and Civil War -- political and social divisions, to November 1936
Purges and Hysteria in the Soviet Union -- the USSR from the early thirties to 1938
Roosevelt and Approaching War in Europe -- isolationism, the economy, Jews and immigration
Crisis and War in Europe, 1937-40 -- Munich, Kristallnacht, the Hitler-Stalin pact, pacifism and war
Japan and Emperor Hirohito to 1936 -- extremist patriots, opportunism and moderates
China, Civil War and Japan's Intrusion, to 1936 -- Chiang Kai-shek, the Long March, and an alliance with Moscow
Japan Wars against China and the Soviet Union: 1936-38 -- Japan in Manchuria and war in China
Pearl Harbor and War in Southeast Asia -- March 1940 through December 1941
War in Europe, 1941-45 -- wishful thinking and barbarism
War against Japan, 1942-45 -- spirituality, fear and bombs
Marxism, Mach and Einstein -- Eduard Bernstein, Lenin, quantum mechanics, determinism, time
Economics: the Austrian School and Keynes -- Böhm-Bawerk, Schumpeter, Mises, Bukharin, Keynes
Spengler, Durkheim and Weber -- spirit, decline, sociology, structural functionalism, anti-positivism, Tönnies
Fascism and Philosophy -- Pareto, Gentile, Rosenberg, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, Kita Ikki, Nakano Seigo
Dewey, Russell and Whitehead -- education, pragmatism, modesty, knowledge limits
Religion in Russia and the Soviet Union, to 1945 -- the Russian Orthodox Church
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