Living Through History: Foundation Book. The 20th Century World

Twentieth Century World Chapter 1 The modern world: an introduction 1.1 The First World War 1914-18 1.2 The First World War: the trenches 1.3 Cowards and traitors? 1.4 The suffragettes go to war 1.5 The Treaty of Versailles

Chapter 2 2.1 The rise of dictators 2.2 The Second World War 2.3 The battle for Britain 2.4 Bombs, bombs, bombs 2.5 Keeping the children safe 2.6 Winnie's war 2.7 The secret armies: the resistance movements in occupied Europe 2.8 The secret armies: the Special Operations Executive 2.9 Collaborators and traitors 2.10 Secrets and spies 2.11 The GIs: a different kind of invasion 2.12 Germany - a divided nation 2.13 The Japanese Empire - short-lived sucess 2.14 The Holocaust

Chapter 3 3.1 The Cold War 3.2 The Cuban missile crisis 3.3 Europeans go home 3.4 The war in Vietnam 3.5 The United Nations: an organisation for peace? 3.6 The United Nations: an organisation for war? 3.7 Postwar Britain: early childhood memories 1947 - 52 3.8 Postwar Britain: schoolgirl memories 1952 onwards 3.9 South Africa - a united nation?

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