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The story of the world, history for the classical child, Susan Wise Bauer, Volume 4

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The story of the world

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Susan Wise Bauer

history for the classical child

This last volume in Bauer's history series covers the major historical events of the last 150 years, from the Britain's empire under Queen Victoria to the presidency of Nelson Mandela

Britain's empire -- West against East -- British invasions -- Resurrection and rebellion --American Civil War -- Two tries for freedom -- Two empires, three republics, and one kingdom -- Becoming modern -- Two more empires, two rebellions -- Canal to the East and a very dry desert -- Far parts of the world -- Unhappy unions -- Old-fashioned emperor and the Red Sultan -- Two Czars and two emperors -- Small countries with large invaders -- Expanding United States -- China's troubles -- Europe and the countries just East -- China, Vietnam -- and France -- Revolution in the Americas ... war in the world -- Revolution begins, and the Great War ends -- National uprisings -- "Peace" and a man of war -- King and II Duce -- Armies in China -- Great crash, and what came of it -- Civil War and invasion -- The Second World War -- End of World War II -- Partitioned countries -- Western bullies and American money -- Africa and China after World War II -- Communism in Asia -- Dictators in South America and Africa -- Cold War -- Struggles and assassinations -- Two short wars and one long one -- Two ways of fighting -- 1980s in the East and the Mideast -- 1980s in USSR -- Communism crumbles, but survives -- End of the twentieth century -- Table of dates -- a chronology of the Modern AgeDisc 1. Foreword ; Victoria's England ; The Sepoy Mutiny ; Japan re-opens ; The Crimean War ; The great game ; Wandering through Africa ; Italy's "resurrection" ; The Taiping Rebellion --Disc 2. South against North ; After the Civil War ; Paraguay and the triple alliance ; The domination of Canada ; Two empires and three republics ; The Second Reich ; Rails, zones, and bulbs ; Japan's Meiji Restoration ; The Dutch East Indies -- Disc 3. The sick man of Europe ; The war of the Pacific ; The Suez Canal ; The Iron Outlaw ; Carving up Africa ; Ireland's troubles ; The Boers and the British -- Disc 4. Brazil's republic ; Abdulhamid the Red ; The next-to-last Czar of Russia ; Ethiopia and Italy ; The Korean battleground ; The Spanish-American War -- Disc 5. Moving West ; Stocks, philanthropists, and outlaws ; The Boxer Rebellion ; The Czar and the admiral ; Persia, its enemies, and its "friends" ; The Balkan mess ; The last emperor ; The Vietnamese restoration society -- Disc 6. The Mexican revolution ; World War I ; The Russian revolution ; The end of World War I ; The Easter uprising ; Indian nationalism ; The peace of Versailles ; The rise of Joseph Stalin -- Disc 7. The first king of Egypt ; Fascism in Italy ; Japan, China, and a pretend Emperor ; The long march ; Black Tuesday and a new deal ; Hitler's rise to power ; Red Spain, black Spain, a king, and a general ; Rebuilding the "Fatherland" -- Disc 8. The three-war war ; The holocaust ; The war that stretched across the world ; The atom bomb ; Muslims and Hindus in India ; The partitioning of Palestine ; The Suez crisis ; The Marshall plan -- Disc 9. One country, two different worlds ; Two republics of China ; Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Minh ; The Korean war ; Argentina's president and his wife ; Freedom in the Belgian Congo ; The space race ; Thirteen days in October -- Disc 10. The death of John F. Kennedy ; Civil rights ; The Vietnam war ; Trouble in the Middle East ; Soviet invasions ; Terrorism ; India after Partition ; Iran and Iraq -- Disc 11. Chernobyl and nuclear power ; The end of the Cold War ; Democracy in China? ; Communism crumbles ; The first Persian Gulf War -- Africa, independent -- Afterword

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Modern age, from Victoria's empire to the end of the USSRFrom Victoria's empire to the end of the USSRFrom Victoria's empire to the end of the Union of Soviet Socialist RepublicsHistory for the classical child