1. The origins of the First World War; 2. The First World War; 3. The Russian Revolution; 4. Paris 1919; 5. Versailles; 6. The other peace treaties; 7. A harsh treaty? 8.

The peace treaties of 1919-23; 9. Aftermath: the immediate consequences of the treaties; 10. The League of Nations; 11. Reparations: The Dawes and Young Plans; 12. Locarno; 13. The rise of Hitler; 14. The Depression; 15. Crisis in Manchuria; 16.

Mussolini; 17. The conquest of Abyssinia; 18. The rise and fall of the League of Nations; 19. From the Rhineland to Anschluss; 20. Munich and the destruction of Czechoslovakia; 21. Different views of appeasement; 22. The Nazi-Soviet Pact; 23. Hitler's War; 24.

The 1930s: the road to war; 25. The Second World War; 26. The fall of the European empires; 27. The roots of the Cold War; 28. 1945: the breakdown of the wartime alliance; 29. The Soviet take-over of Eastern Europe; 30. The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan; 31. American motives at the start of the Cold War; 32.

The Berlin Blockade and NATO; 33. The start of the Cold War; 34. Communist China; 35. The Korean War; 36. The Cuban missile crisis; 37. The Cold War and the Middle East; 38. The Vietnam War; 39. Containing communism; 40.

The United Nations; 41. European unity; 42. Tito and Stalin; 43. The Red Army in Budapest and Prague; 44. Building the Berlin Wall; 45. Solidarity; 46. Gorbachev and the fall of the Soviet Empire; 47. The Soviet Empire 1948-91.