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List of Figures.- List of Maps.- List of Tables.- List of Illustrations.- Acknowledgements.- Preface to the Fifth Edition.- PART I: WAR AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.- 1. The World in 1914: Outbreak of the First World War .- 2. The First World War and Its Aftermath .- 3. International Relations, 1919-1933.- 4. International Relations, 1933-1939.- 5. The Second World War, 1939-1945 .- 6. The Cold War: Problems of International Relations After the Second World War .- 7. The Spread of Communism Outside Europe And Its Effects On International Relations .- 8. The United Nations Organization .- 9. The Two Europes, East and West Since 1945 .- 10. Conflict in the Middle East .- 11. The New World Order and the War Against Global Terrorism .- PART II: THE RISE OF FASCISM AND GOVERNMENTS OF THE RIGHT.- 12. Italy 1918-45: The First Appearance of Fascism .- 13. Germany 1918-45: The Weimar Republic and Hitler .- 14. Japan and Spain .- PART III: COMMUNISM RISE AND DECLINE.- 15. Russia and the Revolutions, 1900-24 .- 16. The USSR and Stalin, 1924-53 .- 17. Continuing Communism, Collapse and Aftermath, 1953-2005 .- 18. China 1900-49 .- 19. China Since 1949: The Communists In Control .- 20. Communism in Korea and South East Asia .- PART IV: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.- 21. The USA Before The Second World War .- 22. The USA Since 1945 .- PART V: DE-COLONIZATION AND AFTER.- 23. The End of the European Empires .-

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Norman Lowe has had many years´ experience of teaching history at all levels and for twenty years was head of history at Nelson and Colne Tertiary College in Lancashire, UK. He is the author of Mastering Modern British History and Mastering Twentieth-Century Russian History.

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