Chapter Page Foreword xi Chapter 1 Britain's Empire Victoria's England 1 The Sepoy Mutiny 6 Chapter 2 West Against East Japan Re-Opens 13 The Crimean War 18 Chapter 3 British Invasions The Great Game 25 Wandering Through Africa 30 Chapter 4 Resurrection and Rebellion Italy's "Resurrection" 37 The Taiping Rebellion 42 Chapter 5 The American Civil War South Against North 51 After the Civil War 56 Chapter 6 Two Tries For Freedom Paraguay and the Triple Alliance 63 The Dominion of Canada 68 Chapter 7 Two Empires, Three Republics, and One Kingdom Two Empires and Three Republics 77 The Second Reich 82 Chapter 8 Becoming Modern Rails, Zones, and Bulbs 91 Japan's Meiji Restoration 97 Chapter 9 Two More Empires, Two Rebellions The Dutch East Indies 103 The Sick Man of Europe 109 Chapter 10 A Canal to the East and a Very Dry Desert The War of the Pacific 117 The Suez Canal 123 Chapter 11 The Far Parts of the World The Iron Outlaw 129 Carving Up Africa 135 Chapter 12 Unhappy Unions Ireland's Troubles 141 The Boers and the British 146 Chapter 13 The Old-Fashioned Emperor and the Red Sultan Brazil's Republic 157 Abdulhamid the Red 162 Chapter 14 Two Czars and Two Emperors The Next-to-Last Czar of Russia 171 Ethiopia and Italy 175 Chapter 15 Small Countries With Large Invaders The Korean Battleground 183 The Spanish-American War 188 Chapter 16 The Expanding United States Moving West 197 Stocks, Philanthropists, and Outlaws 202 Chapter 17 Chinas Troubles The Boxer Rebellion 209 The Czar and the Admiral 215 Chapter 18 Europe and the Countries Just East Persia, Its Enemies, and Its "Friends" 223 The Balkan Mess 231 Chapter 19 China, Vietnam-and France The Last Emperor 239 The Vietnamese Restoration Society 243 Chapter 20 Revolution In the Americas…War In the World The Mexican Revolution 249 World War I 255 Chapter 21 A Revolution Begins, and the Great War Ends The Russian Revolution 265 The End of World War I 271 Chapter 22 National Uprisings The Easter Uprising 279 Indian Nationalism 284 Chapter 23 "Peace" and a Man of War The Peace of Versailles 293 The Rise of Joseph Stalin 299 Chapter 24 The King and II Duce The First King of Egypt 307 Fascism in Italy 311 Chapter 25 Armies In China Japan, China, and a Pretend Emperor 321 The Long March 327 Chapter 26 The Great Crash, and What Came of It Black Tuesday and a New Deal 335 Hitler's Rise to Power 341 Chapter 27 Civil War and Invasion Red Spain, Black Spain, a King, and a General 349 Rebuilding the "Fatherland" 355 Chapter 28 The Second World War The Three-War War 363 The Holocaust 369 Chapter 29 The End of World War II The War that Stretched Across the World 375 The Atom Bomb 383 Chapter 30 Partitioned Countries Muslims and Hindus in India 391 The Partitioning of Palestine 395 Chapter 31 Western Bullies and American Money The Suez Crisis 403 The Marshall Plan 409 Chapter 32 Africa and China After World War II One Country, Two Different Worlds 417 Two Republics of China 422 Chapter 33 Communism in Asia Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Minh 429 The Korean War 434 Chapter 34 Dictators in South America and Africa Argentina's President and His Wife 441 Freedom in the Belgian Congo 449 Chapter 35 The Cold War The Space Race 457 Thirteen Days in October 462 Chapter 36 Struggles and Assassinations The Death of John F. Kennedy 471 Civil Rights 477 Chapter 37 Two Short Wars and One Long One The Vietnam War 487 Trouble in the Middle East 493 Chapter 38 Two Ways of Fighting Soviet Invasions 501 Terrorism 506 Chapter 39 The 1980s in the East and the Mideast India After Partition 513 Iran and Iraq 519 Chapter 40 The 1980s in the USSR Chernobyl and Nuclear Power 527 The End of the Cold War 533 Chapter 41 Communism Crumbles-but Survives Democracy in China? 539 Communism Crumbles 544 Chapter 42 The End of the Twentieth Century The First Persian Gulf War 551 Africa, Independent 555 Afterword 563 Table of Dates-A Chronology of the Modern Age 565 A Geography of the Modern Age 575 Pronouncing the Names of the Modern Age 579 Index 589