Michael Richards, Philip Riley

Term Paper Resource Guide to Twentieth-Century World History

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Produktbeschreibung

This historical research guide provides students and their teachers with 600 term paper ideas and cites more than a thousand print and nonprint sources on the 100 most important events that have shaped 20th-century world history. Organized in chronological order, the guide features entries on key events in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America that are covered in the world history curriculum in secondary schools and colleges. From the 1905 revolution in Russia to the Chinese economy at the end of the 20th century, a wide range of political, economic, social, and cultural events are included. Each entry consists of a capsule description of the event, followed by six specific suggestions for research papers about the event, and a wide-ranging annotated bibliography of books, articles, videos, and web sites appropriate for student research. In every case the emphasis is on recent and up-to-date material, as well as landmark works and primary sources. Dozens of recommended web sites and videos are included. This work has been designed to fulfill the assignments in the world history curriculum. Term paper ideas offer students thought-provoking suggestions that are challenging and develop critical thinking skills. The annotated bibliography is organized into primary and secondary sources. This unique guide is valuable not only to students but to teachers and librarians who guide students in research and is an excellent purchasing guide for librarians who serve student needs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greenwood
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 695g
• ISBN-13: 9780313305597
• ISBN-10: 0313305595
• Artikelnr.: 21381751

Autorenporträt

Michael Richards, Philip F. Riley

Inhaltsangabe

Preface One Hundred Important Events in 20th Century World History The First Manned Flight
1903 The Revolution of 1905 in Russia Pablo Picasso and Cubism
1907 The Mexican Revolution
1910-1920 The 1911 Revolution in China The Suffrage Movement in Britain before World War I
1906-1914 The Battle of the Somme
1916 The French Army Mutinies
1917 The Home Front in World War I
1914-1918 The 1917 Russian Revolution The Paris Peace Conference
1919 The May 4th Movement in China
1919 The British Mandate of Palestine
1922 The New Economic Policy (NEP) in Russia
1921-1928 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and the Founding of the Republic of Turkey
1923 The Northern Expedition in China
1926-1928 Mao Zedong's "Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan
March 1927" Alexander Fleming and the Discovery of Penicillin
1928 Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents
1930 Gandhi's Salt March
1930 The Bauhaus in Weimar Germany
1919-1933 The Great Depression in the 1930s Stalin's First Five-Year Plan
1928-1932 The Nazi "Seizure of Power" in 1933 Mao Zedong and the Long March
1934-1935 General Broadcasting of Television in England
1936 Kita Ikki and Ultranationalism in Japan
1936-1937 The Rape of Nanking
1937 The Spanish Civil War
1936-1939 The Munich Agreement
1938 Kristallnacht: (The Night of Broken Glass)
1938 The Nazi-Soviet Pact
1939 The Battle of Stalingrad
1942-1943 The Holocaust
1941-1945 D-Day
1944 The Yalta Conference
1945 The Use of Atomic Bombs in World War II
1945 The Establishment of the United Nations
1945 The Invention of the Computer
1944-1946 Juan Perón and Argentine Politics
1946-1955 Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnamese War against the French
1946-1954 The Independence of India and Pakistan
1947 The Establishment of the State of Israel
1948 The Marshall Plan (The European Recovery Act)
1948-1951 The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
1948-1949 The Victory of the Chinese Communist Party
1949 The Japanese Economic Miracle in the 1950s The Korean War
1950-1953 The Discovery of the Double Helical Structure of DNA
1953 The Guatemalan Coup
1954 Khrushchev's "Secret Speech" at the Twentieth Party Congress
1956 Gamal Abdel Nasser and the Suez Crisis
1956 The Hungarian Revolution
1956 Kwame Nkrumah and the Independence of Ghana
1957 The Founding of the European Economic Community
1957 France and the Algerian Revolution
1954-1962 Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution
1959 Apartheid in South Africa from the 1950s to the 1970s The Berlin Wall
1961 The Sino-Soviet Split
1959-1969 The "Green Revolution" in Agriculture in the 1960s Yuri Gagarin
the First Man in Space
1961 Vatican II
1962-1965 The Cuban Missile Crisis
1962 The Beatles
1964 The Six-Day War
1967 Civil War in Nigeria (Biafra)
1967-1970 The 1968 Tet Offensive May 1968 in France The Prague Spring
1968 Northern Ireland and "The Troubles
" 1969-1998 Pol Pot and the Cambodian Incursion
1970-1978 The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China
1966-1976 SALT I Agreement
1972 OPEC and the Oil Price Shock
1973 The Overthrow of Salvador Allende in Chile
1973 The Helsinki Accords
1975 Terrorism in the 1970s First "Test-Tube" Baby Born
1978 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the Iranian Revolution
1979 Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Revolution in Britain
1979-1990 Solidarity in Poland
1980-1990 The Spread of AIDS in the 1980s The Israeli Invasion of Lebanon
1982 The Iran-Iraq War
1980-1988 Chernobyl
1986 The Montreal Protocol
1987 The Sandinistas and the Contras in Nicaragua
1981-1989 Vaclav Havel and the "Velvet Revolution
" 1989 German Reunification
1989-1990 The Breakup of the Soviet Union
1991 Nelson Mandela and the End of Apartheid in South Africa
1989-1994 The Dissolution of Yugoslavia in the 1990s The 1992 Earth Summit in Rio Genocide in Rwanda
1994 Dolly the Sheep Cloned
1997 The Asian Economic Meltdown at the End of the 1990s John Paul II's First Twenty Years as Pope 1978-1999 The Internet in the 1990s The Chinese Economy at the End of the Twentieth Century Index