A history of the world in the twentieth century / J.A.S. Grenville.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 933-950) and index.

Social change and national rivalry in the West, 1900-1914 -- The response of China and Japan to western dominance -- The Great War, revolution and the search for stability -- The continuing world crisis, 1929-1939 -- The Second World War -- Post-war Europe, 1945-1947 -- The United States and the beginning of the Cold War, 1945-1948 -- THe transformation of Asia, 1945-1955 -- The ending of European dominance in the Middle East, 1919-1980 -- The Cold War : superpower confrontation, 1948-1964 -- The recovery of Western Europe in the 1950s and 1960s -- Who will liberate the Third World? : 1954-1968 -- Two faces of Asia : after 1949 -- Latin America after 1945 : problems unresolved -- Africa after 1945 : conflict and the threat of famine -- The United States and the Soviet bloc after 1963 : the great transformation -- Western Europe gathers strength : after 1968 -- The Cold War and after.