Great Events of the 20th Century by Reader’s Digest w/ dust jacket

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Great Events of the 20th Century by Reader’s Digest w/ dust jacket   Great Events of the 20th Century by Readers Digest Hard Cover w/ dust jacket  (has damage see photos) How they changed our lives 543 pages Copyright 1977 CONTENTS THE PASSING OF THE OLD GUARD 1900-18 12 Wings for a New World 1903: The Wright Brothers' first flight  Kites and gliders  Early experiments  Success at last 18 The Movies Come of Age 1903: Thomas Edison's Vitascope  Melies, a French pioneer  The Great Train Robbery  Superstars and stereotypes  The movies talk 22 A New Key to the Atom 1903: Pierre and Marie Curie discover radium  Digging for the truth  Illuminating the past 28 Science & Technology 1900-18 On Scale and Structure 32 Showdown at Tsushima 1905: The Russo-Japanese War  A quarrel over Korea  Port Arthur and Togo's strategic coup  A new world power 38 Time, Space, and Einstein 1905: The relativity theory  Galileo, Newton, and Maxwell  E = mc  Gravity and space warp  The four-dimensional universe 44 The Birth of Broadcasting 1906: The sound of a violin  A music box for the masses  Untangling the air waves 48 The Arts 1900-18 Remaking All the Arts Isadora Duncan  Pablo Picasso  Frank Lloyd Wright 54 Freud Unlocks the Subconscious 1908: A congress of psychoanalysts  Dreams: the hidden key  Alternatives to analysis 60 Motoring for Millions 1908: The mass production of the Model T Ford: a car for every man  A hog rolls by  The $5 day 66 China: The End of a Dynasty 1911: The last Manchu  The Boxer Rebellion  Sun Yat-sen and the warlords  The May Fourth Movement and the first Communists 72 Music in a Modern Key 1913: Stravinsky, Nijinsky, and The Rite of Spring The Ballets Busses  A gift for collaboration 76 The Fight for Suffrage 1913: A Derby Day shocker  The first champions  American suffragists and the antislavery campaign  Women's liberation: no more stereotypes 82 Inside the Atom: Order, Energy, and Enigma 1913: Niels Bohr describes the hydrogen atom  The quantum theory  Predicting new particles  The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle 88 The Opening of the Panama Canal 1914: Suez and an ancient dream  Trouble in the Great Divide  A bridge of water 94 The Life of the Times 1900-18 World War I: 1914.18 100 Part One: Powder Keg, Spark, and Explosion 108 Part Two: The Western Front 116 Part Three: The World at War 124 Part Four: Armistice 132 Revolution in Russia: Lenin Seizes Power 1917: The Petrograd Soviet  The 1905 Revolution The last Czar  Kerensky, Lenin, and Trotsky The October Revolution  Civil War 140 An Almanac 1900.18 THE ROARING TWENTIES 1919.29 164 Science & Technology 1919-29 Science and Society 168 Mussolini's March on Rome 1922: Blackshirts and blackjacks  Rome yields  Fascism and the corporate state  The pact with Hitler  Il Duce and the Pope 174 Satchmo: Jazz Grows Up 1922: All aboard for Chicago  Joining the "King"  High times in Storyville  The Reverend Satchelmouth  An international language 180 The Arts 1919.29 The Artist as Celebrity F. Scott Fitzgerald  Ernest Hemingway  Greta Garbo 186 The Surrealist Manifesto 1924: Art and the subconscious  Dada: genial nihilism  A lamb chop on his head  Surrealist chic 192 First Steps to the Stars 1926: A trailblazing rocket flight  Sailboat to the moon  The German challenge 198 The Life of the Times 1919.29 204 Stalin's Rise to Power 1928: Lenin dies  Stalin's power play  Exile for Trotsky  The first Five-Year Plan  Terror and show trials: the great purges 210 Dr. Fleming's Wonder Drug 1928: The discovery of penicillin  Magic bullets How penicillin works  Drugs for animals and plants 216 An Almanac 1919.29 HARD TIMES 1929.39 146 The Peace of Paris 1919: A dictated peace  Wilson's Fourteen Points The Bolshevik threat  Dividing the spoils The postwar balance of power 154 A New Look for the Machine Age 1919: A revolution in style  Craftsman, machine, and artist  The Nazis slam the door 160 Gandhi's Struggle for Freedom 1921: A subcontinent stirs  A massacre and a march to the sea  The apostle of passive resistance 222 The Great Depression 1929: Boom and bust on Wall Street  The shock wave spreads  Too little too late  Hoover and Roosevelt  The long road back 228 Science & Technology 1929-39 Tools and Techniques 232 The Fuehrer Takes Command 1933: The Reichstag fire  Versailles and Weimar The beer hall putsch  The men around Hitler 238 Literature Goes on Trial 1933: Ulysses and censorship  The vice societies  Freud and 4-letter words  June 16, 1904  Morality and the Constitution  Struggle in the schools 244 The Arts 1929.39 Out of the Ivory Tower Bertolt Brecht  Diego Rivera  August Sander 250 The Long March of Mao Tse-tung 1934: A historic journey  Warlords and bloodbaths  Communist recruitment  From Yenan to Peking 256 America Ratifies the New Deal 1936: Roosevelt wins reelection  "Above all try something"  The First Hundred Days  Success and disappointment  FDR's legacy 260 The Spanish Civil War 1936: Franco leads an army revolt  Glory and decline  A nation of extremes  Franco's unholy alliance  The Republic falls 266 The Life of the Times 1929.39 272 Appeasement at Munich 1938: The Allies sacrifice Czechoslovakia  "Peace with honour"  Rearmament and Lebensraum  Operation Green  Postponing the inevitable 278 Live From New York City: Television! 1939: TV makes an auspicious debut  RCA's Russian genius  The golden age  A global village 282 An Almanac 1929-39 THE WAR YEARS 1939-45 300 Dreams of a New Order: The Axis Alliance 1940: Dividing up the world  The Pact of Steel  Friends in the Far East  Resistance and reprisal  The sleeping giant 306 The Arts 1939.45 The Artist as Propagandist Albert Speer  Ezra Pound  Sergei Eisenstein 314 The War in the Pacific 1941: Japan attacks Pearl Harbor  Diplomacy and aggression  Reversal at Midway  Guadalcanal and New Guinea  MacArthur returns 322 The Life of the Times 1939.45 328 Hitler Marches East: The Battle of Stalingrad 1942: Germany invades Russia  The Nazi-Soviet pact  Operation Barbarossa  Moscow and the Russian winter  From Stalingrad to Berlin 336 The Allies Fight Back 1943: Hitler's misjudgment  The Atlantic Alliance War in the desert  Rommel and Montgomery  The Italian campaign 344 D-Day: The Road to Victory 1944: The Allies land at Normandy  Inside Fortress Europe  The Battle of the Bulge  Strains at Yalta  Berlin falls  The perils of peace 354 An Almanac 1939-45 THE NUCLEAR AGE 1945-56 288 Blitzkrieg! 1939: Germany invades Poland  A gloomy silence  Stratagems and lightning war  The fall of France  The Battle of Britain 296 Science & Technology 1939-45 Scientists at War: The Secret Battlefront 360 Hiroshima: "A New and Most Cruel Bomb" 1945: The A-bomb brings Japan to its knees  The Manhattan Project  Aftermath  The peaceful atom 368 Science & Technology 1945.56 Science and Communication 372 Swords Into Plowshares 1945: The founding of the United Nations  Peace and the cold war  Korea and Berlin  Emerging nations and a new balance of power DUST JACKET As the 19th century drew to a close, the world seemed a tolerably comfortable and well-organized place. The great empires were still flourishing, Europe was at peace, and the United States was coming into its own as a world power. Science and nationalism, the two great shaping forces of the new century, were stirring, but had not yet overthrown the old order. Yet in less than 100 years the world, and men's minds, would be irrevocably transformed. How did it happen? By what apparently magical process did a new world come into being? And how did we become able by simply throwing a switch or prescribing a pill to perform seeming miracles, both good and bad? In short, how did we become what we are today? This is the monumental story told in GREAT EVENTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY. From the Wright Brothers' first flight to Apollo 11 and beyond, you will be an eyewitness to the most turbulent and exciting era in historyour own. 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