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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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