Illustrated History of the 20th Century - [The World's Story from 1900 AD to 2000 AD]

Author: Guo Yubin
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: A concise overview of the world history of the entire 20th century, consisting of nearly a thousand entries and over a thousand images. It adopts a chronological approach, succinctly narrating the historical events, stories, and figures of the 20th century, accompanied by a wealth of valuable historical photographs. Reading this book is like wandering through a profound historical gallery, transcending time and space to experience the glory, brilliance, dreams, disillusionment, and sorrow of a century of history. The 20th century was a century of turbulent waves. In the 5,000 years since the birth of human civilization, no century has witnessed as many events, as significant developments, or as earth-shattering changes as the one hundred years of the 20th century. The content covered in this book includes: the transformation of the international landscape at the beginning of the century, the two World Wars, the transition of socialism from theory to practice, the rise of social reform movements and the rule of Social Democratic parties, the rise of fascist movements, the development of national liberation movements, the self-negation of the capitalist system and the development of state-monopolistic capitalism, the establishment of the bipolar world order after World War II and the Cold War between the East and the West, the impact of the scientific and technological revolution on social development, the political and economic development of major capitalist countries after the war, the development and transformation of socialist countries, the rise of the Third World and North-South relations, the disintegration of the Yalta system and the end of the bipolar world order, as well as contemporary localized wars and contemporary world culture.
The 20th century was a century of turbulent waves. In the 5,000 years since the birth of human civilization, no century has witnessed as many events, as significant developments, or as earth-shattering changes as the one hundred years of the 20th century. The content covered in this book includes: the shift in the international landscape at the beginning of the century, the two World Wars, the transition of socialism from theory to practice, the rise of social reform movements and the rule of Social Democratic parties, the rise of fascist movements, the development of national liberation movements, the self-negation of the capitalist system and the development of state-monopolistic capitalism, the establishment of the bipolar world order after World War II and the Cold War between the East and the West, the impact of the scientific and technological revolution on social development, the political and economic development of major capitalist countries after the war, the development and transformation of socialist countries, the rise of the Third World and North-South relations, the disintegration of the Yalta system and the end of the bipolar world order, as well as contemporary localized wars and contemporary world culture.