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An engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history. The period 1919 to 1989 witnessed major changes to international relations. These included the emergence of the USA as the world's most powerful state, and the impact of Communist Russia on European and world diplomacy. Allan Todd focuses on the problems caused by the First World War and the resulting peace treaties, as well as on the factors leading to the Second World War. He also examines developments in the Soviet Union, under Stalin, and its importance in inter-war diplomacy. The origins and the course of the Cold War are explained, with particular emphasis on Europe, Asia and the Americas.
| ISBN | 0521777976 | | Volumes | 1 | | ISBN13 | 9780521777971
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 605 | | Publisher | Cambridge University Press | | Published in | Cambridge | | Imprint | Cambridge University Press | | Series editor | Brown, Richard, Brown, Richard, Brown, Richard | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Cambridge perspectives in history | | Publication date | 21 Jun 2001 | | Height (mm) | 246 | | Library of Congress | D397 .T63 2001 | | Width (mm) | 191 | | DEWEY | 327.4 | | Spine width (mm) | 18 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | Primary/Secondary education | | Pages | 272 | | Interest age | From 16 To 19 |
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| | | International relations, 1919-39 | | 1 | | 1 | | The Treaty of Versailles | | 2 | | 2 | | The League of Nations, 1919-29 | | 12 | | 3 | | International diplomacy, 1919-29 | | 22 | | 4 | | The decline of international co-operation, 1929-32 | | 31 | | 5 | | The road to war, 1933-39 | | 39 | | | | The USSR, 1924-53 | | 53 | | 6 | | The rise of Stalin, 1924-29 | | 54 | | 7 | | Stalin's revolution | | 71 | | 8 | | Show trials and purges | | 85 | | 9 | | Foreign policy in the 1930s and the Great Patriotic War, 1941-45 | | 95 | | 10 | | The USSR in Europe, 1945-53 | | 112 | | | | The Cold War in Europe, 1945-91 | | 125 | | 11 | | The origins of the Cold War | | 126 | | 12 | | Early stage, 1946-49 | | 136 | | 13 | | Fluctuating relations: Europe, 1949-68 | | 151 | | 14 | | From detente to the Second Cold War, 1969-85 | | 168 | | 15 | | The end of the Cold War, 1985-91 | | 184 | | | | The Cold War in Asia and the Americas, 1949-75 | | 199 | | 16 | | China and the Cold War | | 200 | | 17 | | The Korean War, 1950-53 | | 210 | | 18 | | Indochina and Vietnam, 1954-63 | | 222 | | 19 | | The Vietnam War, 1964-75 | | 234 | | 20 | | The Cuban Revolution and the Americas | | 243 | | | | Further reading | | 260 | | | | Index | | 262 |
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