Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. THE FIRST MANNED FLIGHT, 1903 -- 2. THE REVOLUTION OF 1905 IN RUSSIA -- 3. PABLO PICASSO AND CUBISM, 1907 -- 4. THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION, 1910-1920 -- 5. THE 1911 REVOLUTION IN CHINA -- 6. THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT IN BRITAIN BEFORE WORLD WAR I, 1906- 1914 -- 7. THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME, 1916 -- 8. THE FRENCH ARMY MUTINIES, 1917 -- 9. THE HOME FRONT IN WORLD WAR I, 1914- 1918 -- 10. THE 1917 RUSSIAN REVOLUTION -- 11. THE PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE, 1919 -- 12. THE MAY 4TH MOVEMENT IN CHINA, 1919 -- 13. THE BRITISH MANDATE OF PALESTINE, 1922 -- 14. THE NEW ECONOMIC POLICY (NEP) IN RUSSIA, 1921- 1928 -- 15. MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATU ̈RK AND THE FOUNDING OF THE REPUBLIC OF TURKEY, 1923 -- 16. THE NORTHERN EXPEDITION IN CHINA, 1926- 1928 -- 17. MAO ZEDONG'S "REPORT ON AN INVESTIGATION OF THE PEASANT MOVEMENT IN HUNAN, MARCH 1927" -- 18. ALEXANDER FLEMING AND THE DISCOVERY OF PENICILLIN, 1928 -- 19. SIGMUND FREUD'S CIVILIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS, 1930 -- 20. GANDHI'S SALT MARCH, 1930 -- 21. THE BAUHAUS IN WEIMAR, GERMANY, 1919- 1933 -- 22. THE GREAT DEPRESSION IN THE 1930s -- 23. STALIN'S FIRST FIVE-YEAR PLAN, 1928- 1932 -- 24. THE NAZI "SEIZURE OF POWER" IN 1933 -- 25. MAO ZEDONG AND THE LONG MARCH, 1934- 1935 -- 26. GENERAL BROADCASTING OF TELEVISION IN BRITAIN, 1936 -- 27. KITA IKKI AND ULTRANATIONALISM IN JAPAN, 1936- 1937 -- 28. THE RAPE OF NANKING, 1937 -- 29. THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR, 1936-1939 -- 30. THE MUNICH AGREEMENT, 1938 -- 31. KRISTALLNACHT ("THE NIGHT OF BROKEN GLASS"), 1938 -- 32. THE NAZI-SOVIET PACT, 1939 -- 33. THE BATTLE OF STALINGRAD, 1942- 1943 -- 34. THE HOLOCAUST, 1941-1945 -- 35. D-DAY, 1944 -- 36. THE YALTA CONFERENCE, 1945 -- 37. THE USE OF ATOMIC BOMBS IN WORLD WAR II, 1945 -- 38. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE UNITED NATIONS, 1945 -- 39. THE INVENTION OF THE COMPUTER, 1944- 1946.

40. JUAN PERO ́N AND ARGENTINE POLITICS, 1946- 1955 -- 41. HO CHI MINH AND THE VIETNAMESE WAR AGAINST THE FRENCH, 1946- 1954 -- 42. THE INDEPENDENCE OF INDIA AND PAKISTAN, 1947 -- 43. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL, 1948 -- 44. THE MARSHALL PLAN (THE EUROPEAN RECOVERY ACT), 1948- 1951 -- 45. THE BERLIN BLOCKADE AND AIRLIFT, 1948- 1949 -- 46. THE VICTORY OF THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY, 1949 -- 47. THE JAPANESE ECONOMIC MIRACLE IN THE 1950s -- 48. THE KOREAN WAR, 1950-1953 -- 49. THE DISCOVERY OF THE DOUBLE HELICAL STRUCTURE OF DNA, 1953 -- 50. THE GUATEMALAN COUP, 1954 -- 51. KHRUSHCHEV'S "SECRET SPEECH" AT THE TWENTIETH PARTY CONGRESS, 1956 -- 52. GAMAL ABDEL NASSER AND THE SUEZ CRISIS, 1956 -- 53. THE HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION, 1956 -- 54. KWAME NKRUMAH AND THE INDEPENDENCE OF GHANA, 1957 -- 55. THE FOUNDING OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY, 1957 -- 56. FRANCE AND THE ALGERIAN REVOLUTION, 1954- 1962 -- 57. FIDEL CASTRO AND THE CUBAN REVOLUTION, 1959 -- 58. APARTHEID IN SOUTH AFRICA FROM THE 1950s to the 1970s -- 59. THE BERLIN WALL, 1961 -- 60. THE SINO-SOVIET SPLIT, 1959-1969 -- 61. THE "GREEN REVOLUTION" IN AGRICULTURE IN THE 1960s -- 62. YURI GAGARIN, THE FIRST MAN IN SPACE, 1961 -- 63. VATICAN II, 1962-1965 -- 64. THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS, 1962 -- 65. THE BEATLES, 1964 -- 66. THE SIX-DAY WAR, 1967 -- 67. CIVIL WAR IN NIGERIA (BIAFRA), 1967- 1970 -- 68. THE 1968 TET OFFENSIVE -- 69. MAY 1968 IN FRANCE -- 70. THE PRAGUE SPRING, 1968 -- 71. NORTHERN IRELAND AND "THE TROUBLES," 1969- 1998 -- 72. POL POT AND THE CAMBODIAN INCURSION, 1970- 1979 -- 73. THE GREAT PROLETARIAN CULTURAL REVOLUTION IN CHINA, 1966- 1976 -- 74. SALT I AGREEMENT, 1972 -- 75. OPEC AND THE OIL PRICE SHOCK, 1973 -- 76. THE OVERTHROW OF SALVADOR ALLENDE IN CHILE, 1973 -- 77. THE HELSINKI ACCORDS, 1975 -- 78. TERRORISM IN THE 1970s -- 79. FIRST "TEST-TUBE" BABY BORN, 1978.

80. AYATOLLAH RUHOLLAH KHOMEINI AND THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION, 1979 -- 81. MARGARET THATCHER AND THE CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION IN BRITAIN, 1979- 1990 -- 82. SOLIDARITY IN POLAND, 1980-1990 -- 83. THE SPREAD OF AIDS IN THE 1980s -- 84. THE ISRAELI INVASION OF LEBANON, 1982 -- 85. THE IRAN-IRAQ WAR, 1980-1988 -- 86. CHERNOBYL, 1986 -- 87. THE MONTREAL PROTOCOL, 1987 -- 88. THE SANDINISTAS AND THE CONTRAS IN NICARAGUA, 1981- 1989 -- 89. VACLAV HAVEL AND THE "VELVET REVOLUTION," 1989 -- 90. GERMAN REUNIFICATION, 1989-1990 -- 91. THE BREAKUP OF THE SOVIET UNION, 1991 -- 92. NELSON MANDELA AND THE END OF APARTHEID IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1989- 1994 -- 93. THE DISSOLUTION OF YUGOSLAVIA IN THE 1990s -- 94. THE 1992 EARTH SUMMIT IN RIO -- 95. GENOCIDE IN RWANDA, 1994 -- 96. DOLLY THE SHEEP CLONED, 1997 -- 97. THE ASIAN ECONOMIC MELTDOWN AT THE END OF THE 1990s -- 98. JOHN PAUL II's FIRST TWENTY YEARS AS POPE, 1978- 1999 -- 99. THE INTERNET IN THE 1990s -- 100. THE CHINESE ECONOMY AT THE END OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY -- Index.