Complete Idiot's Guide to 20th Century History
by Axelrod, Ph.D., AlanFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-06-01
Publisher(s): DK Publishing, Inc.
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Summary
You're no idiot, of course. You know that over the last 100 years, we've seen it all--world war, depression, assassinations, moon landings, an impeachment, and more. But when it comes to really understanding the significance of these events, you feel like you're scaling Mount Rushmore itself. Don't jump off Roosevelt's nose! With The Complete Idiot,s Guide to 20th-Century History, you'll discover the most significant people, ideas, and events that shaped this century--in terms anyone can understand. In this Complete Idiot's Guide, you get:
Author Biography
Alan Axelord, PH.D., is the author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to American History, The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Civil War, the Complete Idiot's Guide to Jazz, and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Mixing Drinks. Dr. Axelrod lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
Table of Contents
| Overview and Backward Overture | p. 1 |
| Our Home Century | p. 3 |
| Century in a Nutshell | p. 3 |
| A Hundred Violent Years | p. 5 |
| Promises, Promises | p. 10 |
| Some Themes and Variations | p. 12 |
| A Nation Rises (1700s-1840) | p. 15 |
| Westward the Course of Empire | p. 16 |
| Jefferson Gets a Bargain | p. 18 |
| Fulton Puts on Steam | p. 19 |
| Big Ditch to the West | p. 22 |
| Ties That Bind | p. 24 |
| Century of Iron (1844-1859) | p. 25 |
| More Revolutions | p. 26 |
| In the Halls of Montezuma | p. 27 |
| Victoria Triumphant | p. 30 |
| The Year 1848 | p. 32 |
| Darwin Looks at Life | p. 32 |
| Hard Times | p. 33 |
| A Nation Torn and Reborn (1860-1869) | p. 35 |
| Liberty Compromised | p. 35 |
| Frontiers | p. 41 |
| Atlantic Cable | p. 43 |
| Union Pacific | p. 43 |
| Through the Golden Door (1870-1899) | p. 47 |
| Flipping Switches | p. 47 |
| "Mary Had a Little Lamb" | p. 49 |
| The Incandescent Age | p. 51 |
| And More Light | p. 52 |
| A Place Called Tuskegee | p. 53 |
| Mississippi River Tale | p. 55 |
| Land of Liberty | p. 56 |
| Remember the Maine! | p. 61 |
| Reflections on the White City: Looking Toward the 20th Century | p. 63 |
| The Old World Dies: 1900-1919 | p. 65 |
| First Years (1900-1902) | p. 67 |
| Box Brownie and Boxers | p. 67 |
| East Meets West | p. 69 |
| New Century, New Reality | p. 70 |
| A Queen Dies, a War Ends | p. 73 |
| Africa: A New Kind of Combat | p. 74 |
| The Unnatural World | p. 76 |
| Heart of Darkness? | p. 79 |
| Rising and Sinking (1903-1913) | p. 81 |
| Kitty Hawk Morning | p. 82 |
| War and Peace | p. 83 |
| Two Theories | p. 85 |
| Einstein on Relativity | p. 86 |
| Saviors Wanted | p. 88 |
| Heroes Wanted | p. 90 |
| Black Activism in 1909 | p. 92 |
| Accidents Will Happen | p. 94 |
| A Fire in Manhattan | p. 95 |
| Titanic Tragedy | p. 96 |
| The World Reshaped (1908-1913) | p. 99 |
| Two Revolutions | p. 99 |
| Imperial Gestures | p. 104 |
| America Plays in Her Own Backyard | p. 105 |
| Big Government | p. 108 |
| Modern Times | p. 110 |
| Stravinsky's New Noise in Paris | p. 111 |
| Art Gets Cubed--and Why | p. 112 |
| Sarajevo Shooting (1914-1916) | p. 115 |
| Wrong Place, Wrong Time | p. 115 |
| Thrust and Stalemate | p. 119 |
| Soil and the Blood of France | p. 120 |
| Gas! | p. 123 |
| The Russian Bear Falters | p. 124 |
| Empires in Flames | p. 124 |
| Safe at Home | p. 126 |
| A War in the Bedroom | p. 127 |
| A War in the Movies | p. 128 |
| Saving Democracy (1917-1919) | p. 131 |
| Zimmermann Sends a Telegram | p. 131 |
| Mobilization: Patriots and Slackers | p. 133 |
| "Lafayette, We Are Here!" | p. 135 |
| A League of Their Own | p. 139 |
| Red Star Rising | p. 143 |
| The Plague of War: Influenza Rakes the World | p. 148 |
| Lost Generations: 1920-1938 | p. 151 |
| Jazz Age (1920-1929) | p. 153 |
| What Is Normal? | p. 154 |
| The Party Begins | p. 160 |
| Cops and Robbers | p. 163 |
| Victims and Heroes (1920-1929) | p. 167 |
| Choosing Up Sides | p. 167 |
| Mussolini Makes the Trains Run on Time | p. 169 |
| A Little Man in a Beer Hall | p. 171 |
| G-Men | p. 174 |
| The Golden Door Slams Shut | p. 176 |
| Flying High | p. 177 |
| A Miracle Drug from Mold | p. 178 |
| The Lone Eagle Soars | p. 178 |
| ...and So Does the Babe | p. 180 |
| Prosperity | p. 182 |
| The Party Ends (1929-1934) | p. 183 |
| Recipe for Depression | p. 184 |
| "Prosperity's Just Around the Corner" | p. 186 |
| Shanty Towns and Skyscrapers | p. 187 |
| The Bonus Army on the March | p. 189 |
| Europe: A Gathering Darkness | p. 190 |
| The League Stumbles | p. 191 |
| Man of Steel | p. 192 |
| Savage Men with Long Knives | p. 194 |
| America Gets a New Deal | p. 195 |
| "Happy Days Are Here Again" (1934-1938) | p. 199 |
| Dust Bowl Disaster | p. 200 |
| A Tale of Two Nations | p. 202 |
| Depression Culture | p. 205 |
| The Ride of Bonnie and Clyde | p. 206 |
| From Folksongs to Dams | p. 208 |
| Rehearsal for Armageddon | p. 210 |
| Aliens Land in New Jersey | p. 212 |
| To Hell and Back: 1939-1949 | p. 215 |
| "Peace in Our Time" (1939-1941) | p. 217 |
| Tomorrow...the World | p. 218 |
| Living Room | p. 219 |
| Betrayal | p. 223 |
| The Stain Spreads | p. 223 |
| The Phony War and the Fall of France | p. 224 |
| Arsenal of Democracy | p. 227 |
| Day of Infamy | p. 228 |
| Total War (1941-1945) | p. 231 |
| The Relentless Empire | p. 232 |
| 30 Seconds Over Tokyo | p. 234 |
| "Relocation" | p. 236 |
| Thrust into the Soft Underbelly | p. 237 |
| A Soldier's Battle | p. 242 |
| "Now I Am Become Death" (1941-1945) | p. 247 |
| Russian Front | p. 247 |
| In the Jaws of the Vise | p. 249 |
| Holocaust | p. 253 |
| Retreat to the Bunker | p. 256 |
| Atomic Dawn | p. 256 |
| A War Served Cold (1946-1949) | p. 265 |
| The World Unites--and Divides | p. 265 |
| Science Ascendant | p. 269 |
| "Never Again" | p. 276 |
| A Policy of Containment | p. 277 |
| American Dreams: 1950-1969 | p. 283 |
| Picket Fence and Iron Curtain (1950-1954) | p. 285 |
| The Year 1950 | p. 286 |
| Charge It, Please | p. 286 |
| Religion Writ Larger | p. 287 |
| Witch Hunter from Wisconsin | p. 288 |
| Organized Crime | p. 290 |
| "Police Action" | p. 291 |
| A World More Dangerous | p. 295 |
| The Back of the Bus (1954-1963) | p. 299 |
| A Dream Deferred | p. 300 |
| Birth of a Movement | p. 305 |
| March on Washington | p. 308 |
| From Sputnik to the New Frontier (1955-1963) | p. 311 |
| We Like Ike | p. 311 |
| Dr. Salk's Miracle | p. 314 |
| A Whole Lotta Shakin' | p. 316 |
| A Woman's Place | p. 320 |
| New Moon | p. 322 |
| The Torch Is Passed | p. 323 |
| Dallas, November 22, 1963, 12:30 P.M. | p. 326 |
| "The Great Society" (1964-1967) | p. 329 |
| A Martyr's Causes | p. 329 |
| Launching a Great Society | p. 331 |
| A Domino Leans | p. 335 |
| War and Protest | p. 338 |
| Vietnam, the Moon, and a Nation Called Woodstock (1968-1969) | p. 341 |
| "Hell, No! We Won't Go" | p. 341 |
| The Making of a Counterculture | p. 346 |
| Blood in Memphis, Blood in L.A., Blood in Chicago | p. 348 |
| A Lunar Promise Kept | p. 351 |
| Woodstock Nation | p. 353 |
| A New World: 1970-1989 | p. 357 |
| Truces and Terrorists (1970-1975) | p. 359 |
| "Peace with Honor" and Death from Above | p. 360 |
| Nixon and Kissinger | p. 364 |
| Acts of Terror | p. 366 |
| Dirty Tricks and Dirty Lies | p. 369 |
| The Liberal Backlash | p. 372 |
| Hostage Situations (1974-1980) | p. 377 |
| The Nation Has a Birthday | p. 377 |
| The Right to Die and the Nature of Life | p. 380 |
| Life on the Small Screen | p. 383 |
| Peacemakers, Fanatics, and Revolutionaries | p. 385 |
| Made in Japan | p. 391 |
| Hostage Crisis | p. 393 |
| Years of Plague, Years of Hope (1980-1989) | p. 395 |
| Why Reagan? | p. 395 |
| In Praise of Greed | p. 399 |
| The "Gay Plague" | p. 400 |
| Bhopal and Chernobyl | p. 401 |
| Black Monday, October 19, 1987 | p. 404 |
| Star Wars and the Evil Empire | p. 406 |
| Human Rights | p. 409 |
| Unfinished Century: The 1990s | p. 411 |
| Red Sunset and Desert Flames (1990-1992) | p. 413 |
| The God That Failed | p. 413 |
| Return to Tribalism | p. 420 |
| Desert Shield and Desert Storm | p. 423 |
| The Economy, Stupid | p. 425 |
| Prosperity and Scandal (1993-) | p. 427 |
| The Comeback Kid | p. 427 |
| Portraits of Anarchy | p. 429 |
| Annus Horribilis | p. 431 |
| Two Trials in L.A. | p. 433 |
| An Age of Rage | p. 435 |
| And an Age of Reconciliation | p. 437 |
| Of Genetic Engineering and Cyber Surfing | p. 439 |
| Sex, Lies, and the White House | p. 441 |
| A Look Ahead | p. 441 |
| Will We Live Better? | p. 444 |
| Appendices | |
| Who Was Who in the 20th Century | p. 445 |
| Talk of the Times | p. 451 |
| Recommended Reading | p. 463 |
| Index | p. 467 |
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