The Western Heritage, Volume 2: Since 1648 with Access Code

Autor Donald Kagan, Steven Ozment, Frank M. Turner

en Limba Engleză Mixed media product – 19 oct 2012

An authoritative account of Western civilizations. The Western Heritage provides the broadest possible introduction to Western civilization in a strong, clear narrative. It fosters lively debate about the West, defines how the West has interacted with other cultures, and shows how Western civilization can be used to understand global challenges today. The text integrates social, cultural, and political history, and it provides a flexible presentation to accommodate different teaching and learning approaches. The 11th edition is tied closely to MyHistoryLab, with icons connecting the main narrative to an array of MyHistoryLab resources, including documents, video segments, and interactive maps. The authors welcome Alison Frank, professor of history at Harvard University, to their team for this edition. A better teaching and learning experience This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience-for you and your students.Here's how: * Personalize Learning - The new MyHistoryLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals. * Improve Critical Thinking - Chapter opening and end-of-chapter study resources help students understand the themes and spark class discussion. * Engage Students - Box features included throughout the text encourage the use of visual and textual sources while promoting debate about the West. * Support Instructors - Instructor's eText, MyHistoryLab, Instructor's Resource Manual, Test Item File, MyTest, PowerPoint presentations, and Class Preparation are available. 0205896324 / 9780205896325 Western Heritage, The: Volume 2 Plus NEW MyHistoryLab with eText -- Access Card Package Package consists of: 0205206549 / 9780205206544 NEW MyHistoryLab with Pearson eText -- Valuepack Access Card 0205434517 / 9780205434510 Western Heritage, The: Volume 2

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ISBN-13: 9780205896325
ISBN-10: 0205896324
Pagini: 672
Dimensiuni: 226 x 274 x 23 mm
Greutate: 1.32 kg
Ediția:11
Editura: Pearson

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DONALD KAGAN is Sterling Professor of History and Classics at Yale University, where he has taught since 1969. He received the A.B. degree in history from Brooklyn College, the M.A. in classics from Brown University, and the Ph.D. in history from Ohio State University. During 1958 to 1959 he studied at the American School of Classical Studies as a Fulbright Scholar. He has received three awards for undergraduate teaching at Cornell and Yale. He is the author of a history of Greek political thought, The Great Dialogue (1965); a four-volume history of the Peloponnesian war, The Origins of the Peloponnesian War (1969); The Archidamian War (1974); The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition (1981); The Fall of the Athenian Empire (1987); and a biography of Pericles, Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy (1991); On the Origins of War (1995) and The Peloponnesian War (2003). He is coauthor, with Frederick W. Kagan, of While America Sleeps (2000). With Brian Tierney and L. Pearce Williams, he is the editor of Great Issues in Western Civilization, a collection of readings. He was awarded the Na-tional Humanities Medal for 2002 and was chosen by the National Endowment for the Humani-ties to deliver the Jefferson Lecture in 2004. STEVEN OZMENT is McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History at Harvard Univer-sity. He has taught Western Civilization at Yale, Stanford, and Harvard. He is the author of eleven books. The Age of Reform, 1250-1550 (1980) won the Schaff Prize and was nominated for the 1981 National Book Award. Five of his books have been selections of the History Book Club: Magdalena and Balthasar: An Intimate Portrait of Life in Sixteenth Century Europe (1986), Three Behaim Boys: Growing Up in Early Modern Germany (1990), Protestants: The Birth of a Revolution (1992), The Burgermeister's Daughter: Scandal in a Sixteenth Century German Town (1996), and Flesh and Spirit: Private Life in Early Modern Germany (1999). His most recent publications are Ancestors: The Loving Family of Old Europe (2001), A Mighty For-tress: A New History of the German People (2004), and "Why We Study Western Civ," The Pub-lic Interest, 158 (2005). FRANK M. TURNER is John Hay Whitney Professor of History at Yale University and Direc-tor of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, where he served as University Provost from 1988 to 1992. He received his B.A. degree at the College of William and Mary and his Ph.D. from Yale. He has received the Yale College Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching. He has directed a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute. His scholarly research has received the support of fellowships from the National En-dowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation and the Woodrow Wilson Center. He is the author of Between Science and Religion: The Reaction to Scientific Naturalism in Late Victorian England (1974), The Greek Heritage in Victorian Britain (1981), which received the British Council Prize of the Conference on British Studies and the Yale Press Governors Award, Contesting Cultural Authority: Essays in Victorian Intellectual Life (1993), and John Henry Newman: The Challenge to Evangelical Religion (2002). He has also contributed numerous arti-cles to journals and has served on the editorial advisory boards of The Journal of Modern His-tory, Isis, and Victorian Studies. He edited The Idea of a University by John Henry Newman (1996), Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke (2003), and Apologia Pro Vita Sua and Six Sermons by John Henry Newman (2008). Between 1996 and 2006 he served as a Trustee of Connecticut College and between 2004 and 2008 as a member of the Connecticut Humanities Council. In 2003, Professor Turner was appointed Director of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. ALISON FRANK is professor of history at Harvard University. She is interested in transnational approaches to the history of Central and Eastern Europe, particularly the Habsburg Empire and its successor states in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her first book, Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia (2005), was awarded the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize, the Austrian Cultural Forum Book Prize, and was co-winner of the Polish Studies Association's Orbis Prize in Polish Studies. Her current book project, Invisible Empire: A New Global History of Austria, focuses on the Adriatic port city of Trieste and the Habsburg Monarchy's participation in global commerce in the long nineteenth century. Other interests include the Eastern Alps, the Mediterranean slave trade, and environmental history. She is associate director of the Center for History and Economics.

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Found in this Section: 1. Brief Table of Contents 2. Full Table of Contents 1. BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS Documents Maps Preface About the Authors What Is the Western Heritage? Chapter 13: European State -Consolidation in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Chapter 14: New Directions in Thought and Culture in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Chapter 15: Society and Economy Under the Old Regime in the Eighteenth Century Chapter 16: The Transatlantic Economy, Trade Wars, and Colonial Rebellion PART 4: Enlightenment and Revolution, 1700-1850 Chapter 17: The Age of Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Thought Chapter 18: The French Revolution Chapter 19: The Age of Napoleon and the Triumph of Romanticism Chapter 20: The Conservative Order and the Challenges of Reform (1815-1832) Chapter 21: Economic Advance and Social Unrest (1830-1850) PART 5: Toward the Modern World, 1850-1939 Chapter 22: The Age of Nation-States Chapter 23: The Building of European Supremacy: Society and Politics to World War I Chapter 24: The Birth of Modern European Thought Chapter 25: The Age of Western Imperialism Chapter 26: Alliances, War, and a Troubled Peace Chapter 27: The Interwar Years: The Challenge of Dictators and Depression PART 6: Global Conflict, Cold War, and New Directions, 1939-2012 Chapter 28: World War II Chapter 29: The Cold War Era, Decolonization, and the Emergence of a New Europe Chapter 30: Social, Cultural, and Economic Challenges in the West through the Present Glossary Index 2. FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS Documents Maps Preface About the Authors What Is the Western Heritage? Chapter 13: European State -Consolidation in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries The Netherlands: Golden Age to Decline Urban Prosperity Economic Decline Two Models of European Political Development Constitutional Crisis and Settlement in Stuart England James I Charles I The Long Parliament and Civil War Oliver Cromwell and the Puritan Republic Charles II and the Restoration of the Monarchy The "Glorious Revolution" The Age of Walpole Rise of Absolute Monarchy in France: The World of Louis XIV Years of Personal Rule Versailles King by Divine Right Louis's Early Wars Louis's Repressive Religious Policies Louis's Later Wars France After Louis XIV Central and Eastern Europe Poland: Absence of Strong Central Authority The Habsburg Empire and the Pragmatic Sanction Prussia and the Hohenzollerns Russia Enters the European Political Arena The Romanov Dynasty Peter the Great Russian Expansion in the Baltic: The Great Northern War In Perspective Key Terms Review Questions Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments Early Controversy Over Tobacco and Smoking VERSAILLES The Debate over the Origin and Character of Political Authority Chapter 14: New Directions in Thought and Culture in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries The Scientific Revolution Nicolaus Copernicus Rejects an Earth-Centered Universe Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler Make New Scientific Observations Galileo Galilei Argues for a Universe of Mathematical Laws Isaac Newton Discovers the Laws of Gravitation Philosophy Responds to Changing Science Nature as Mechanism Francis Bacon: The Empirical Method Rene Descartes: The Method of Rational Deduction Thomas Hobbes: Apologist for Absolute Government John Locke: Defender of Moderate Liberty and Toleration The New Institutions of Expanding Natural Knowledge Women in the World of the Scientific Revolution The New Science and Religious Faith The Case of Galileo Blaise Pascal: Reason and Faith The English Approach to Science and Religion Continuing Superstition Witch Hunts and Panic Village Origins Influence of the Clergy Who Were the Witches? End of the Witch Hunts Baroque Art In Perspective Key Terms Review Questions Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments THE SCIENCES AND THE ARTS Descartes and Swift Debate the Scientific Enterprise Midwives Chapter 15: Society and Economy Under the Old Regime in the Eighteenth Century Major Features of Life in the Old Regime Maintenance of Tradition Hierarchy and Privilege The Aristocracy Varieties of Aristocratic Privilege Aristocratic Resurgence The Land and Its Tillers Peasants and Serfs Aristocratic Domination of the Countryside: The English Game Laws Family Structures and the Family Economy Households The Family Economy Women and the Family Economy Children and the World of the Family Economy The Revolution in Agriculture New Crops and New Methods Expansion of the Population The Industrial Revolution of the Eighteenth Century A Revolution in Consumption Industrial Leadership of Great Britain New Methods of Textile Production The Steam Engine Iron Production The Impact of the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions on Working Women The Growth of Cities Patterns of Preindustrial Urbanization Urban Classes The Urban Riot The Jewish Population: The Age of the Ghetto In Perspective Key Terms Review Questions Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments AN ARISTOCRATIC COUPLE Two Eighteenth-Century Writers Contemplate the Effects of Different Economic Structures Water, Washing, and Bathing Chapter 16: The Transatlantic Economy, Trade Wars, and Colonial Rebellion Periods of European Overseas Empires Mercantile Empires Mercantilist Goals French-British Rivalry The Spanish Colonial System Colonial Government Trade Regulation Colonial Reform under the Spanish Bourbon Monarchs Black African Slavery, the Plantation System, and the Atlantic Economy The African Presence in the Americas Slavery and the Transatlantic Economy The Experience of Slavery Mid-Eighteenth-Century Wars The War of Jenkins's Ear The War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748) The "Diplomatic Revolution" of 1756 The Seven Years' War (1756-1763) The American Revolution and Europe Resistance to the Imperial Search for Revenue The Crisis and Independence American Political Ideas Events in Great Britain Broader Impact of the American Revolution In Perspective Key Terms Review Questions Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments Sugar Enters the Western Diet A SUGAR PLANTATION IN THE WEST INDIES The Atlantic Passage The Columbian Exchange: Disease, Animals, and Agriculture PART 4: Enlightenment and Revolution, 1700-1850 Chapter 17: The Age of Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Thought Formative Influences on the Enlightenment The Emergence of a Print Culture The Philosophes Philosophes and Patrons The Enlightenment and Religion Deism Toleration Radical Enlightenment Criticism of Christianity The Limits of Toleration The Jewish Enlightenment The Enlightenment and Society The Encyclopedia: Freedom and Economic Improvement Beccaria and Reform of Criminal Law The Physiocrats and Economic Freedom Adam Smith on Economic Growth and Social Progress Political Thought of the Philosophes Montesquieu and Spirit of the Laws Rousseau: A Radical Critique of Modern Society Enlightened Critics of European Empires Women in the Thought and Practice of the Enlightenment Rococo and Neoclassical Styles in Eighteenth-Century Art Enlightened Absolutism Frederick the Great of Prussia Joseph II of Austria Catherine the Great of Russia The Partitions of Poland The End of the Eighteenth Century in Central and Eastern Europe In Perspective Key Terms Review Questions Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments Coffeehouses and Enlightenment AN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ARTIST APPEALS TO THE ANCIENT WORLD Maria Theresa and Joseph II of Austria Debate Toleration Chapter 18: The French Revolution The Crisis of the French Monarchy The Monarchy Seeks New Taxes Necker's Report Calonne's Reform Plan and the Assembly of Notables Deadlock and the Calling of the Estates General The Revolution of 1789 The Estates General Becomes the National Assembly Fall of the Bastille The "Great Fear" and the Night of August 4 The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen The Parisian Women's March on Versailles The Reconstruction of France Political Reorganization Economic Policy The Civil Constitution of the Clergy Counterrevolutionary Activity The End of the Monarchy: A Second Revolution Emergence of the Jacobins The Convention and the Role of the Sans-culottes Europe at War with the Revolution Edmund Burke Attacks the Revolution Suppression of Reform in Britain The Second and Third Partitions of Poland, 1793, 1795 The Reign of Terror War with Europe The Republic Defended The "Republic of Virtue" and Robespierre's Justification of Terror Repression of the Society of Revolutionary Republican Women De-Christianization Revolutionary Tribunals The End of the Terror The Thermidorian Reaction Establishment of the Directory Removal of the Sans-culottes from Political Life In Perspective Key Terms Review Questions Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments CHALLENGING THE FRENCH POLITICAL ORDER The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen Opens the Door for Disadvantaged Groups to Demand Equal Civic Rights The Metric System Chapter 19: The Age of Napoleon and the Triumph of Romanticism The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte Early Military Victories The Constitution of the Year VIII The Consulate in France (1799-1804) Suppressing Foreign Enemies and Domestic Opposition Concordat with the Roman Catholic Church The Napoleonic Code Establishing a Dynasty The Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) Napoleon's Empire (1804-1814) Conquering an Empire The Continental System European Response to the Empire German Nationalism and Prussian Reform The Wars of Liberation The Invasion of Russia European Coalition The Congress of Vienna and the European Settlement Territorial Adjustments The Hundred Days and the Quadruple Alliance The Romantic Movement Romantic Questioning of the Supremacy of Reason Rousseau and Education Kant and Reason Romantic Literature English Romantic Writers The German Romantic Writers Romantic Art The Cult of the Middle Ages and Neo-Gothicism Nature and the Sublime Religion in the Romantic Period Methodism New Directions in Continental Religion Romantic Views of Nationalism and History Herder and Culture Hegel and History Islam, the Middle East, and Romanticism In Perspective Key Terms Review Questions Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments THE CORONATION OF NAPOLEON Sailors and Canned Food The Experience of War in the Napoleonic Age Chapter 20: The Conservative Order and the Challenges of Reform (1815-1832) The Conservative Order The Congress System The Domestic Political Order Conservative Outlooks The Emergence of Nationalism and Liberalism Nationalism Early-Nineteenth-Century Political Liberalism Classical Economics Relationship of Liberalism to Nationalism Conservative Restoration in Europe Liberalism and Nationalism Resisted in Austria and the Germanies Postwar Repression in Great Britain Bourbon Restoration in France The Spanish Revolution of 1820 The Conservative Order Shaken in Europe Revolt Against Ottoman Rule in the Balkans Russia: The Decembrist Revolt of 1825 Revolution in France (1830) Belgium Becomes Independent (1830) The Great Reform Bill in Britain (1832) The Wars of Independence in Latin America Wars of Independence on the South American Continent Independence in New Spain Brazilian Independence In Perspective Key Terms Review Questions Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments Mazzini and Lord Acton Debate the Political Principles of Nationalism Gymnastics and German Nationalism AN UNSUCCESSFUL MILITARY COUP IN RUSSIA Chapter 21: Economic Advance and Social Unrest (1830-1850) Toward an Industrial Society Population and Migration Railways The Labor Force The Emergence of a Wage-Labor Force Working-Class Political Action: The Example of British Chartism Family Structures and the Industrial Revolution The Family in the Early Factory System Women in the Early Industrial Revolution Opportunities and Exploitation in Employment Changing Expectations in the Working-Class Marriage Problems of Crime, Order, and Poverty New Police Forces Prison Reform Government Policies Based on Classical Economics Early Socialism Utopian Socialism Anarchism Marxism 1848: Year of Revolutions France: The Second Republic and Louis Napoleon The Habsburg Empire: Nationalism Resisted Italy: Republicanism Defeated The German Confederation: Liberalism Frustrated In Perspective Key Terms Review Questions Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments The Potato and the Great Hunger in Ireland Andrew Ure and John Ruskin Debate the Conditions of Factory Production THE GREAT EXHIBITION IN LONDON The Abolition of Slavery in the Transatlantic Economy PART 5: Toward the Modern World, 1850-1939 Chapter 22: The Age of Nation-States The Crimean War (1853-1856) Peace Settlement and Long-Term Results Reforms in the Ottoman Empire Italian Unification Romantic Republicans Cavour's Policy The New Italian State German Unification Bismarck The Franco-Prussian War and the German Empire (1870-1871) France: From Liberal Empire to the Third Republic The Paris Commune The Third Republic The Habsburg Empire Formation of the Dual Monarchy Unrest of Nationalities Russia: Emancipation and Revolutionary Stirrings Reforms of Alexander II Revolutionaries Great Britain: Toward Democracy The Second Reform Act (1867) Gladstone's Great Ministry (1868-1874) Disraeli in Office (1874-1880) The Irish Question In Perspective Key Term Review Questions Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments THE SUEZ CANAL Nineteenth-Century Nationalism: Two Sides The Arrival of Penny Postage Chapter 23: The Building of European Supremacy: Society and Politics to World War I Population Trends and Migration The Second Industrial Revolution New Industries Economic Difficulties The Middle Classes in Ascendancy Social Distinctions within the Middle Classes Late-Nineteenth-Century Urban Life The Redesign of Cities Urban Sanitation Housing Reform and Middle-Class Values Varieties of Late-Nineteenth-Century Women's Experiences Women's Social Disabilities New Employment Patterns for Women Working-Class Women Poverty and Prostitution Women of the Middle Class The Rise of Political Feminism Jewish Emancipation Differing Degrees of Citizenship Broadened Opportunities Labor, Socialism, and Politics to World War I Trade Unionism Democracy and Political Parties Karl Marx and the First International Great Britain: Fabianism and Early Welfare Programs France: "Opportunism" Rejected Germany: Social Democrats and Revisionism Russia: Industrial Development and the Birth of Bolshevism In Perspective Key Terms Review Questions Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments Bicycles: Transportation, Freedom, and Sport Bernstein and Lenin Debate the Tactics of European Socialism BLOODY SUNDAY, ST. PETERSBURG, 1905 Chapter 24: The Birth of Modern European Thought The New Reading Public Advances in Primary Education Reading Material for the Mass Audience Science at Midcentury Comte, Positivism, and the Prestige of Science New Theories of Evolution: Lamarck, Lyell, Darwin, Wallace Science and Ethics: Social Darwinism Christianity and the Church Under Siege Intellectual Skepticism Conflict Between Church and State Areas of Religious Revival The Roman Catholic Church and the Modern World Islam and Late-Nineteenth-Century European Thought Toward a Twentieth-Century Frame of Mind Science: The Revolution in Physics Literature: Realism and Naturalism Modernism in Literature The Coming of Modern Art Friedrich Nietzsche and the Revolt Against Reason The Birth of Psychoanalysis Retreat from Rationalism in Politics Racism Anti-Semitism and the Birth of Zionism Women and Modern Thought Antifeminism in Late-Century Thought New Directions in Feminism In Perspective Key Terms Review Questions Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments The Birth of Science Fiction The Debate over Social Darwinism POPULAR RELIGION AND PILGRIMAGE Chapter 25: The Age of Western Imperialism The Close of the Age of Early Modern Colonization The Age of British Imperial Dominance The Imperialism of Free Trade British Settler Colonies India-The Jewel in the Crown of the British Empire The "New Imperialism," 1870-1914 Motives for the New Imperialism The Partition of Africa Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, and Libya Egypt and British Strategic Concern about the Upper Nile West Africa The Belgian Congo German Empire in Africa Southern Africa Russian Expansion in Mainland Asia Western Powers in Asia France in Asia The United States' Actions in Asia, the Pacific, and Latin America The Boxer Rebellion Tools of Imperialism Steamboats Conquest of Tropical Diseases Firearms The Missionary Factor Missionary Movements Tensions Between Missionaries and Imperial Administrators Missionaries and Indigenous Religious Movements Science and Imperialism Botany Zoology Medicine Anthropology In Perspective Key Terms Review Questions Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments THE FRENCH IN MOROCCO Two Views of Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Imperial Expansion Submarine Cables Imperialism: Ancient and Modern Chapter 26: Alliances, War, and a Troubled Peace Emergence of the German Empire and the Alliance Systems (1873-1890) Bismarck's Leadership Forging the Triple Entente (1890-1907) World War I The Road to War (1908-1914) Sarajevo and the Outbreak of War (June-August 1914) Strategies and Stalemate: 1914-1917 The Russian Revolution The Provisional Government Lenin and the Bolsheviks The Communist Dictatorship The End of World War I Germany's Last Offensive The Armistice The End of the Ottoman Empire The Settlement at Paris Obstacles the Peacemakers Faced The Peace World War I and Colonial Empires Evaluating the Peace In Perspective Key Terms Review Questions Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments The Outbreak of World War I THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ARMORED TANK War Propaganda and the Movies: Charlie Chaplin Chapter 27: The Interwar Years: The Challenge of Dictators and Depression After Versailles: Demands for Revision and Enforcement Toward the Great Depression in Europe Financial Tailspin Problems in Agricultural Commodities Depression and Government Policy in Britain and France The Soviet Experiment War Communism The New Economic Policy The Third International Stalin versus Trotsky The Decision for Rapid Industrialization The Collectivization of Agriculture The Purges The Fascist Experiment in Italy The Rise of Mussolini The Fascists in Power German Democracy and Dictatorship The Weimar Republic Depression and Political Deadlock Hitler Comes to Power Hitler's Consolidation of Power Anti-Semitism and the Police State Racial Ideology and the Lives of Women Nazi Economic Policy Trials of the Successor States in Eastern Europe Economic and Ethnic Pressures Poland: Democracy to Military Rule Czechoslovakia: A Viable Democratic Experiment Hungary: Turn to Authoritarianism Austria: Political Turmoil and Nazi Occupation Southeastern Europe: Royal Dictatorships In Perspective Key Terms Review Questions Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments Cinema of the Political Left and Right THE NAZI PARTY RALLY The Soviets and the Nazis Confront the Issues of Women and the Family PART 6: Global Conflict, Cold War, and New Directions, 1939-2012 Chapter 28: World War II Again the Road to War (1933-1939) Hitler's Goals Italy Attacks Ethiopia Remilitarization of the Rhineland The Spanish Civil War Austria and Czechoslovakia Munich The Nazi-Soviet Pact World War II (1939-1945) The German Conquest of Europe The Battle of Britain The German Attack on Russia Hitler's Plans for Europe Japan and the United States Enter the War The Tide Turns The Defeat of Nazi Germany Fall of the Japanese Empire The Cost of War Racism and the Holocaust The Destruction of the Polish Jewish Community Polish Anti-Semitism Between the Wars The Nazi Assault on the Jews of Poland Explanations of the Holocaust The Domestic Fronts Germany: From Apparent Victory to Defeat France: Defeat, Collaboration, and Resistance Great Britain: Organization for Victory The Soviet Union: "The Great Patriotic War" Preparations for Peace The Atlantic Charter Tehran: Agreement on a Second Front Yalta Potsdam In Perspective Key Terms Review Questions Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments The Munich Settlement Rosie the Riveter and American Women in the War Effort THE VICHY REGIME IN FRANCE Chapter 29: The Cold War Era, Decolonization, and the Emergence of a New Europe The Emergence of the Cold War Containment in American Foreign Policy Soviet Domination of Eastern Europe The Postwar Division of Germany NATO and the Warsaw Pact The Creation of the State of Israel The Korean War The Khrushchev Era in the Soviet Union Khrushchev's Domestic Policies The Three Crises of 1956 Later Cold War Confrontations The Berlin Wall The Cuban Missile Crisis The Brezhnev Era 1968: The Invasion of Czechoslovakia The United States and Detente The Invasion of Afghanistan Communism and Solidarity in Poland Relations with the Reagan Administration Decolonization: The European Retreat from Empire Major Areas of Colonial Withdrawal India Further British Retreat from Empire The Turmoil of French Decolonization France and Algeria France and Vietnam Vietnam Drawn into the Cold War Direct United States Involvement The Collapse of European Communism Gorbachev Attempts to Reform the Soviet Union 1989: Revolution in Eastern Europe The Collapse of the Soviet Union The Yeltsin Decade The Collapse of Yugoslavia and Civil War Putin and the Resurgence of Russia The Rise of Radical Political Islamism Arab Nationalism The Iranian Revolution Afghanistan and Radical Islamism A Transformed West In Perspective Key Terms Review Questions Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments The Soviet Union and the United States Draw the Lines of the Cold War Rock Music and Political Protest COLLAPSE OF THE BERLIN WALL Chapter 30: Social, Cultural, and Economic Challenges in the West through the Present The Twentieth-Century Movement of Peoples Displacement Through War External and Internal Migration The New Muslim Population European Population Trends Toward a Welfare State Society Christian Democratic Parties The Creation of Welfare States Resistance to the Expansion of the Welfare State New Patterns in Work and Expectations of Women Feminism More Married Women in the Workforce New Work Patterns Women in the New Eastern Europe Transformations in Knowledge and Culture Communism and Western Europe Existentialism Expansion of the University Population and Student Rebellion The Americanization of Europe A Consumer Society Environmentalism Art Since World War II Cultural Divisions and the Cold War The Christian Heritage Neo-Orthodoxy Liberal Theology Roman Catholic Reform Late-Twentieth-Century Technology: The Arrival of the Computer The Demand for Calculating Machines Early Computer Technology The Development of Desktop Computers The Challenges of European Unification Postwar Cooperation The European Economic Community The European Union Discord over the Union New American Leadership and Financial Crisis European Debt Crisis In Perspective Key Terms Review Questions Suggested Readings MyHistoryLab Media Assignments Muslim Women Debate France's Ban on the Veil Toys from Europe Conquer the United States NAMELESS LIBRARY, VIENNA ENERGY AND THE MODERN WORLD Glossary Index

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