Modern History

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Introduction

• Front Cover
• Introduction
• World in 1783

The engines of change

• The abolition of slavery
• The agricultural and industrial revolutions
• Global commerce, competition and empire
• Trade unionism, socialism and marxism

19th century

• Independence in the Americas
• Queen Victoria
• Benjamin Disraeli
• Taiping Rebellion - Wikipedia:Taiping Rebellion
• Napoleon Bonaparte
• Schrammel accordion
• American Civil War
• Franco-Prussian War - Wikipedia:Franco-Prussian War
• Opium Wars - Wikipedia
• Need chapters that include topics:
  • the Suez canal
  • Perry goes to Japan
  • the settlement of Liberia and the decline of African slavery outside Africa
  • the construction of Railroads
• First Sino-Japanese War

20th century

• World at the Turn of the Century
• End of Imperial China
• Russo-Japanese War
• First World War
• Russian Revolution(Wikipedia)
• Rise of Fascism, Socialism and Communism
• Great Depression
• Second Sino-Japanese War
• Spanish Civil War (Wikipedia)
• Greco-Turkish War(Wikipedia)
• Second World War
• J.R.R. Tolkien(Wikipedia)
• Partition of India
• Beginning of the Cold War
• The Cold War
• Cold War (notes)
• Decolonisation
• Korean War
• Space Exploration
• Sino-Soviet Split
• Earl Lincoln Poole
• Vietnam War
• War over Kashmir and Bangladesh
• Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
• Fall of the Soviet Union
• Gulf War
• End of Apartheid
• Dawn of the Computer Age
• World at the end of the 20th Century
• Need a section on Nazi Germany

21st Century

• World at the Turn of the Millenium
• Wikipedia
• East Timor
• Bush's Administration
• Beaconsfield mine collapse

Major People

The major people in this time frame are:

1. Queen Victoria
2. Benjamin Disraeli
3. Mahatma Gandhi
4. Benito Mussolini
5. Mao Zedong
6. Adolf Hitler
7. Jawahar Lal Nehru
8. Deng Xiaoping
9. George W. Bush
10. The Human Race

Authors

1. Kernigh
2. Dr. C.J. (international relations articles-Cold War, First World War, American Civil War, Cuban Missle Crisis)
3. Other and anonymous contributors