The world since 1945
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The world since 1945
(Penguin books)
Penguin, 1998
3rd ed
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
Note
Previous ed.: 1992
First published in Pelican Books 1987.
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF GLOBAL CHANGE FROM 1945 TO THE PRESENT DAY The world since 1945 has witnessed fundamental changes, notably the increasing influence of the West - particularly the USA - in a variety of spheres, the emergence and collapse of the USSR, the end of colonial empire in Asia and Africa and the escalation of wars and other conflicts in the Third World. In this incisive survey T. E. Vadney examines the key events without ever neglecting the underlying trends. He explores therapid changes in the Middle East, the end of apartheid in South Africa and the aims of American foreign policy. He concludes with a new epilogue in which he examines the direction of post-1945 history as the world enters the twenty-first century.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The origins of the post-1945 world: the Soviet Union and the coming war
- east-west relations
- the German problem
- the German sweep
- the Americans
- the Far East
- the European war and the question of a second front
- the war in Asia and the Pacific
- Yalta
- Potsdam
- the balance of power. Part 2 The United States as a global power: the Soviet Union an eastern Europe
- Tito
- Soviet expansionism and the west
- the United States and the Eastern Bloc
- the Marshall plan
- America and the enemy states - Japan, Germany
- NATO and American leadership. Part 3 The Third World - colonialism, neo-colonialism, and revolution: The West and the Third World
- the Second World War and anti-colonialism
- the Soviet Union and the Third World
- colonialism if possible
- independence if necessary
- India
- the spectre of revolution - China - the Chinese communists, civil war, the impact of Japan and the Second World War to 1949
- the Arab-Israeli crisis. Part 4 Asia in crisis: the Far East and Korea - the origins of the war, the course of the war
- Vietnam - the French, Vietnamese nationalism, the return of the French, Dien Bien Phu and the Americans, the Geneva conference
- SEATO - the People's Republic of China - reconstruction, the transition to socialism, the first five year plan, the hundred flowers, the great leap forward, the restoration of the "bureaucrats", the Sino-Soviet split. Part 5 The alliances: the satellites after 1945
- the end of the Stalin era
- the succession
- the spectre of revolution
- de-Stalinization - Poland, Hungary, Albania
- the Atlantic alliance
- European integration and the German rearmament
- competition in the Third World - Iran, the plot to restore the Shah
- the Russians and the Third World War - Suez. Part 6 Decolonization in Africa: the Maghrib - the war in Algeria, De Gaulle and the fifth republic, independent Algeria
- south of the Sahara - British west Africa, the French colonies
- the other empires - the Congo, the future. Part 7 A neo-colonial world - Latin America: the neo-colonial era
- Argentina and Juan Peron
- the United States and hemispheric security
- counter-revolution - Guatemala
- revolution - Cuba - the revolution in action, to the Bay of Pigs, the missile crisis, the aftermath. Part 8 The wars in Indo-China: Diem
- Laos
- Managing the crisis
- the Buddhists
- the assassination
- the Americanization of the war
- Tonkin
- escalation
- Tet
- Nixon
- the war in Cambodia
- protest
- peace for America
- recriminations. Part 9 Asia's great powers: the cultural revolution -the Shanghai People's Commune - the fall of Lin, the return of Deng, the post-Mao era. (Part contents).
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