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Graffam, Letter from Turkey, Summer 1915Talaat Pasha, Posthumous MemoirsThe Russian Revolution and the Beginnings of the Soviet StateLenin, April ThesesCommunist Decrees and Legislation, 1917-1918The Peace That FailedComments of the German Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference on the Conditions of Peace, October 1919General Syrian Congress of Damascus, Resolution of July 2, 1919Deng Yingchao, Memoirs4. Decades of Crisis in the Western World and the Soviet UnionModernism and Mass Culture Between the WarsWalter Gropius, Dessau Bauhaus--Principles of Bauhaus Construction; Examples of Bauhaus DesignSenator Henry L. Meyers, U.S. Senate Speech, June 29, 1922The Impact of the Great DepressionH. Hessel Tiltman, Slump! A Study of Stricken Europe TodayFranklin D. Roosevelt, Annual Address to Congress, January 4, 1935Nazism in Theory and PracticeAdolf Hitler, Mein KampfGertrud Scholtz-Klink, Speech to the National Socialist Women''s Association, September 1935The Stalin Revolution in the Soviet UnionJoseph Stalin, The Results of the First Five-Year PlanLetters to Izvestiya on the Abortion Issue, May-June 19365. Latin America in an Era of Economic Challenge and Political ChangeNew Social and Political Currents: Feminism and IndigenismoAmanda Labarca, Where Is Woman Going?José Carlos Maríategui, The Problem of the Indian and The Problem of the LandPolitical Responses to the Great DepressionLázaro Cárdenas, Speech to the NationGetúlio Vargas, Excerpts from Speeches and Interviews, 1937-1940The Mexican Muralists and the Revolution in Mexican ArtJosé Clemente Orozco, AutobiographyJosé Clemente Orozco, Hispanic-American Society, and Diego Rivera, Imperialism6.

Africa Under Colonial RuleEuropean Perspectives on Africa''s FutureJan Smuts, Rhodes Memorial LecturesSir Frederick Gordon Guggisberg, The KeystoneAfrican Society and Identity Under Colonial RuleJames Aggrey, Parable of the EagleKabaka Daudi Chwa, Education, Civilization, and Foreignization" in BugandaCharlotte Maxeke, Social Conditions Among Bantu Women and GirlsNationalism, Pan-Africanism, and AnticolonialismResolutions of the National Congress of British West Africa, 19201921 Pan-African Congress, London ManifestoGilbert Coka, "The African Liberator, Our Message"7. Asia in an Era of Nationalism and RevolutionPolitical and Religious Currents in the Middle EastMustafa Kemal, Speech to the Congress of the People''s Republican PartyHayyim Nahman Bialik, Speech at the Inauguration of the Hebrew University of JerusalemThe Muslim Brotherhood, Toward the LightAnticolonialism in India and Southeast AsiaMohandas Gandhi, Indian Home RuleMuhammad Ali Jinnah, Speech to the Muslim League, 1940Nguyen Thai Hoc, Letter to the French Chamber of Deputies, 1930Intellectual Ferment and Revolution in ChinaHu Shi, Our Attitude Toward Modern Civilization of the WestMao Zedong, Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan; Strategic Problems of China''s Revolutionary WarNationalism and Militarism in JapanThe Black Dragon Society, Anniversary Statement, 1930Fundamental Principles of National Policy, 1936III. From World War II to the Early 1970s: Decades of Conflict, Decolonization, and Economic Recovery8. World War II and Its AftermathAppeasement and the Origins of World War II in EuropeNeville Chamberlain, Excerpts from Correspondence, Diary, and SpeechesWinston Churchill, Speech to Parliament, October 5, 1938The Final Solution: Perpetrators and VictimsRudolf Höss, Memoirs"B.F.," RecollectionsThe Dawn of the Atomic AgeThe Franck ReportHenry L. Stimson, The Decision to Use the Atomic BombIwao Nakamura and Atsuko Tsujioka, RecollectionsFrom World War II to the Cold WarGeorge Kennan, The Long TelegramNikolai Novikov, Telegram, September 27, 19479. The Industrialized West in an Era of Economic Growth and Social ChangeThe End of EmpiresDebate in the House of Commons, March 1947Charles de Gaulle, Comments on Algeria, April 11, 1961Discontent in the Midst of Prosperity: The United States in the 1950s and Early 1960sBetty Friedan, The Feminine MystiqueMartin Luther King, Jr.

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D. Allman, Serbia''s Blood WarFergal Keane, Season of BloodNelson Mandela, Presidential Inauguration Speech, May 10, 1994".