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Published: 27/11/2009

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Table of Contents:
The causes and outbreak of the First World War
1 Alliance system
2 Arms race
3 Balkan Wars, 1912–13
4 Bosnia crisis, 1908
5 Franz Ferdinand
6 Moroccan Crisis, 1905
7 Moroccan Crisis, 1911
8 Schlieffen Plan
9 Wilhelm II
The peace treaties, 1918–23
10 Clemenceau, Georges
11 Hyperinflation
12 Lloyd George, David
13 National self-determination
14 Paris Peace Conference, 1919–20
15 Reparations
16 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, 1918
17 Treaty of Lausanne, 1923
18 Treaty of Neuilly, 1919
19 Treaty of Saint-Germain, 1919
20 Treaty of Sèvres, 1920
21 Treaty of Trianon, 1920
22 Treaty of Versailles, 1919
23 War Guilt clause
24 Wilson, Woodrow
The search for peace and stability, 1920–39
25 Abyssinian War, 1935–36
26 Collective security
27 Dawes Plan, 1924
28 Fourteen Points
29 Geneva Protocol, 1924
30 Great Depression
31 Isolationism
32 Kellogg–Briand Pact, 1928
33 League of Nations, 1920–45
34 Manchuria
35 Mussolini, Benito
36 Ruhr
37 Wall Street Crash, 1929
The collapse of international order by 1939
38 Anglo-German Naval Treaty, 1935
39 Anschluss, 1938
40 Appeasement
41 Chamberlain, Neville
42 Disarmament Conference, 1932
43 Hitler, Adolf
44 Hoare–Laval Pact, 1935
45 Lebensraum
46 Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, 1939
47 Munich Agreement, 1938
48 Rhineland
49 Rome–Berlin Axis, 1936
50 Saar
51 Sino-Japanese War, 1937–45
52 Spanish Civil War, 1936–39
53 Stresa Front, 1935
54 Sudetenland
The origins of the Cold War, 1945–55
55 Berlin airlift, 1948–49
56 Cold War
57 Iron Curtain
58 Korean War, 1950–53
59 Marshall Aid
60 Potsdam Conference, 1945
61 Stalin, Joseph
62 Truman Doctrine, 1947
63 Warsaw Pact, 1955
64 Yalta Conference, 1945
The Cuban Missile Crisis
65 Bay of Pigs, 1961
66 Brinkmanship
67 Castro, Fidel
68 Containment
69 Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
The Vietnam War
70 Domino theory
71 Johnson Doctrine, 1965
72 Tet Offensive, 1968
73 Tonkin Gulf Resolution, 1964
74 Vietnamisation
Soviet control over Eastern Europe, 1948–89
75 Berlin Wall, 1961–89
76 Brezhnev Doctrine
77 De-Stalinisation
78 Hungarian Uprising, 1956
79 Prague Spring, 1968
The end of the Cold War
80 Afghanistan, Soviet invasion of 1979
81 Détente
82 Gorbachev, Mikhail
83 Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, 1987
84 Reagan, Ronald
85 Revolutions of 1989
86 Solidarity
87 Strategic Arms Limitation Treaties (SALT), 1972 and 1979
88 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), 1991
89 Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI)
90 Yeltsin, Boris
Terrorism since 1969
91 Afghanistan, American invasion of 2001
92 Al-Qaeda
93 Good Friday Agreement
94 Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO)
95 Provisional IRA (PIRA)
The Iraq War
96 Basra
97 Hussein, Saddam
98 Iraqi Governing Council (IGC)
99 ‘Shock and awe’
100 Weapons of mass destruction (WMD)