Intro -- Twentieth-Century Europe: A Brief History, 1900 to the Present -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Part 1 Overview: 1900-1919 -- 1 Before the Deluge Europe, 1900-1914: Europe, 1900-1914 -- Chronology -- Europe and the World -- The Great Powers -- The Class Structure -- References -- 2 The Great War, 1914-1918 -- Chronology -- The Coming of the Great War -- The Great War, 1914-1917 -- The Failure of the Schlieffen Plan -- Trench Warfare -- The Course of the War: 1915 -- Sausage Machine: 1916 -- The Home Front -- The War around the World -- Decision, 1917-1918 -- References -- Further Reading -- 3 Revolution and Peacemaking, 1917-1919 -- Chronology -- Revolution in Russia -- Civil War in Russia -- Revolution in Germany -- Peacemaking, 1919 -- The League of Nations -- References -- Further Reading -- Part 2 Overview : 1919-1939 -- 4 Aftershocks of the Great War -- Chronology -- Intellectual Trends -- A Second Scientific Revolution -- Postwar Despair -- Culture -- The Social Impact -- Peasants and Agriculture -- The Working Class -- The Middle Class -- References -- Further Reading -- 5 Recovery and Prosperity, 1919-1929 -- Chronology -- Great Britain -- France -- Weimar Germany -- Italy -- The Soviet Union -- The Smaller States -- Eastern Europe -- Turkey (Ottoman Empire) -- United States -- China and Japan -- Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- 6 From Depression to War, 1929-1939 -- Chronology -- The American Connection -- Responses -- The Depression in Germany: The Nazis Come to Power -- The New Dictatorships -- The Stalinist Dictatorship -- The Road to War in Europe -- The Road to War in the Pacific -- Reference -- Further Reading -- Part 3 Overview : 1939-1967 -- 7 Armageddon: Europe in World War II, 1939-1945 -- Chronology -- Blitzkrieg -- Operation Barbarossa -- Stalingrad and D-Day -- Home Fronts.

Collaboration and Resistance -- The Holocaust -- The End of the War -- References -- 8 Cold War and Decolonization, 1945-1961 -- Chronology -- Origins of the Cold War -- Crisis Years, 1947-1948 -- The Two Germanies -- The Cold War Launched -- Dismantling the Colonial Empires -- References -- 9 Out of the Ashes From Stunde Null (Zero Hour) to a New Golden Age, 1945-1967 : From Stunde Null (Zero Hour) To A New Golden Age, 1945-1967 -- Chronology -- Reconstruction -- Reconstruction in the West: British Problems -- Reconstruction in the West: French Success -- Reconstruction in the West: German  Wirtschaftswunder -- Reconstruction in the West: Other Countries, Other Stories -- Reconstruction in the East: The Stalinist Legacy -- Reconstruction in the East: The Seemingly Successful German Democratic Republic -- Reconstruction in the East: The New Poland -- Reconstruction in the East: Hungary and Revolution -- On the Way to a United Europe -- A Consumer Economy in Western Europe -- Social Change -- D�etente -- Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- 10 Metamorphosis: An Era of Revolutionary Change, 1968-1988 -- Radicalism in Western Europe in the Late 1960s -- France in May 1968 -- Brezhnev's Russia -- The Prague Spring -- Willy Brandt and Ostpolitik -- The 1960s in the United States -- The Civil Rights Movement in the United States -- The Price of Oil -- The Welfare State -- Terrorism -- Recovery -- Thatcherism -- France -- Some Other States -- The East Bloc in Decline: The Soviet Union -- Solidarity in Poland -- Erich Honecker's East Germany -- Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- 11 Searching for Meaning in a Multicultural World -- Chronology -- Existentialism -- Structuralism -- Deconstruction -- Postmodernism -- Culture -- Art -- Literature, Drama, the Cinema, and Music -- Popular Culture -- References -- Further Reading.

12 Charting a New Course: Europe from 1989 to the Present -- Chronology -- The Revolutions of 1989 -- German Reunification -- Germany in the twenty-first Century -- The Soviet Union Disappears -- Russia in the Twenty-First Century -- The Disintegration of Yugoslavia -- The European Union -- The Global Economic Collapse of 2008 -- The Revival of Terrorism -- Terrorism in Europe -- European Demographics -- Conclusion -- Reference -- Further Reading -- Appendix -- Index.

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