The story of the world. Activity book four, The Modern age: from Victoria's empire to the fall of the USSR 9780972860352, 9781933339023, 9781942968115, 0972860355

This comprehensive, 8.5" x 11" curriculum guide and activity book contains map activities, coloring pages, gam

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English Pages xix, 200, 206 pages: illustrations, maps; 28 cm Year 2015;2005

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The story of the world. Activity book four, The Modern age: from Victoria's empire to the fall of the USSR
 9780972860352, 9781933339023, 9781942968115, 0972860355

Table of contents :
Britain's empire --
West against East --
British invasions --
Resurrection and rebellion --
American Civil War --
Two tries for freedom --
Two empires, three republics, and one kingdom --
Becoming modern --
Two more empires, two rebellions --
Canal to the East and a very dry desert --
Far parts of the world --
Unhappy unions --
Old-fashioned emperor and the Red Sultan --
Two Czars and two emperors --
Small countries with large invaders --
Expanding United States --
China's troubles --
Europe and the countries just East --
China, Vietnam --
and France --
Revolution in the Americas ... war in the world --
Revolution begins, and the Great War ends --
National uprisings --
"Peace" and a man of war --
King and II Duce --
Armies in China --
Great crash, and what came of it --
Civil War and invasion --
The Second World War --
End of World War II --
Partitioned countries --
Western bullies and American money --
Africarica and China after World War II --
Communism in Asia --
Dictators in South America and Africa --
Cold War --
Struggles and assassinations --
Two short wars and one long one --
Two ways of fighting --
1980s in the East and the Mideast --
1980s in USSR --
Communism crumbles, but survives --
End of the twentieth century --
Table of dates --
a chronology of the Modern Age.

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