World Since 1945; Author: Vadney, T. E.; Author: Vadney, Thomas E.; Paperback; Standard Hardcover size

Author: Vadney, T. E.; Author: Vadney, Thomas E.
Edition #3; Paperback; Standard Hardcover size; Maps
608 pages
Published: August 1998
Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 0140268758

The world since 1945 has witnessed fundamental changes, notably the increasing influence of the West -- particularly the United States -- in a variety of spheres, the emergence and collapseof the U.S.S.R., the end of colonial empires in Asia and Africa, and the escalation of wars and other conflicts in the Third World. In this brilliantly incisive and highly readable survey, T. E. Vadney examines the key events -- in Afghanistan, Algeria, China, Cuba, Iraq, Iran, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, and elsewhere -- without ever neglecting the underlying global trends. Vadney explores the rapid changes in the Middle East, the end of apartheid in South Africa, and the aims of American foreign policy, concluding with a new Epilogue in which he examines the direction of post-1945 historComplete history of global change from 1945 to the present day. Since 1945 the world has witnessed fundamental changes, notably the influence of the West, the emergence and collapse of the USSR, and the escalation of wars and other conflicts in the Third World. This survey examines the key events without ever neglecting the underlying trends.