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

Review: the peace treaties of 1919-23; 9. Setting up the League of Nations; 10. Reparations: the Dawes and Young Plans; 11. The spirit of Locarno; 12. The Rise of Hitler; 13. The Depression and international politics; 14. Crisis in Manchuria; 15. Mussolini and Italian fascism; 16.

The conquest of Abyssinia; 17. Review: the rise and fall of the League of Nations; 18. From the Rhineland to the 'Anschluss'; 19. Munich and the destruction of Czechoslovakia; 20. Different views of Appeasement; 21. The Nazi-Soviet Pact; 22. Hitler's war; 23. Review:the 1930s-the road to war; 24.

The Second World War; 25. The fall of the European Empire; 26. The roots of the Cold War; 27. 1945: the breakdown of the wartime alliance; 28. The Soviet takeover of Eastern Europe; 29. The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan; 30. American motives at the start of the Cold War; 31. The Berlin Blockade and NATO; 32.

The Start of the Cold War; 33. The Korean War; 34. The Cuban Missile Crisis; 35. The Cold War and the Middle East; 36. The Vietnam War; 37. Review: containing Communism; 38. Tito and Stalin; 39. The Red Army in Budapest and Prague; 40.

Solidarity; 41. Gorbachev and the fall of the Soviet Empire; 43.Review: the Soviet Empire 1948-91; THE UNITED NATIONS ORGANISATION: 44. The United Nations; 45. The UN in action: Korea and the Congo; 46. Review: the work and success of the UN; Index.