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The twentieth century's seminal catastrophe: the First World War. Battles and war crimes: Military action 1914-16 ; War aims, ideological warfare, opposition to the war ; A year to remember: The Russian Revolution; the United States enters the war ; Freedom for civilized nations: Woodrow Wilson's new world order ; Two countries lie in ruins; one is reborn: Germany, Austria-Hungary and Poland as the end of the First World War ; Trust gambled away and violence unleashed: The legacy of the First World War
From the Armistice to the world economic crisis : 1918-33. The pace of revolution slows: Germany on the way to the Weimar Republic ; A blighted new beginning: Austria and Hungary in 1918/19 ; The struggle for independence: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Finland ; The east remains red: The Russian Civil War and the foundation of the third international ; The victors move to the right: The western powers on the eve of the Paris peace talks ; A fragile peace: From Versailles to the League of Nations ; Protest, prohibition, prosperity: The United States in the 1920s ; The international revolution is delayed: The rise of the Soviet Union and the divisions within left-wing parties in Europe ; Three elections and a secession: Post-war Britain ; Confrontations and compromises: France 1919-22 ; A year of decisions: 1923. From the occupation of the Ruhr to the Dawes Plan ; Right against left: Culture and society in the Weimar Republic ; Authoritarian transformation (I): the new states of Poland, Czechoslovakia and the Baltic region ; Authoritarian transformation (II): From the Balkans to the Iberian peninsula ; Democracy evolves: From Sweden to Switzerland ; Fascism in power: Italy under Mussolini ; From Poincaré to Poincaré: France between 1923 and 1929 ; From empire to commonwealth: Britain under Baldwin ; From Dawes to Young: Germany under Stresemann ; Socialism in one county: The Soviet Union under Stalin 1924-33 ; Boom, crisis, depression: The United States 1928-33 ; The logic of the lesser evil: Germany under Brüning ; Stagnation and criticism of the system: France's Third Republic 1929-33 ; The power of continuity: Britain in the early 1930s ; Weimar's downfall: Hitler's road to power ; Storm clouds in the Far East: Japan invades Manchuria
Democracies and dictatorships: 1933-9. A New Deal for America: Roosevelt's presidency 1933-6 ; The process of seizing power: the establishment of the National Socialist dictatorship 1933-4 ; Rome's second empire: Fascist Italy and the war in Abyssinia ; The Great Terror: Stalin builds up his dominion over the Soviet Union ; Setting the course for war: National Socialist Germany 1934-8 ; Early signs of appeasement: Britain 1933-8 ; Mobilization of the right, popular front on the left: France 1933-8 ; Battlefield extremes: The Spanish Civil War 1936-39 ; A model for Germany: The anti-Semitic policies of Fascist Italy ; Neighbors at risk: Czechoslovakia, Poland and the Third Reich 1935-8 ; Roosevelt's Realpolitik: The United States from 1936 to 1938 ; Reaching out across borders: From the Austrian Anschluss to the Munich Agreement ; The ninth of November 1938: The History and consequences of the Jewish pogroms in Germany ; An alliance of opposites: The Second World War is unleashed
Fault lines in western civilization: The Second World War and the Holocaust. War as annihilation: The fifth partition of Poland ; From 'Drôle de guerre' to the battle for Norway ; France's collapse: The campaign in the west ; Tokyo, Washington, Berlin: A change in international politics 1940-41 ; From 'Barbarossa' to Pearl Harbor: The globalization of the war ; Genesis to genocide: The 'final solution' (I) ; A change of direction: The Axis powers go on the defensive ; Home fronts: Nations at war ; Occupation, collaboration, resistance (I): Eastern central Europe, South-east and North-west Europe ; Occupation, collaboration, resistance (II): France ; 'To cause this nation to vanish from the face of the earth': The 'final solution' (II) ; Collapse of a dictatorship: Italy 1943-4 ; The allies advance: Eastern Asia and Europe 1943-44 ; The twentieth of July 1944: German resistance to Hitler ; The partition of Europe (I): The Allie's post-war plans ; Completion of a mission; The 'final solution' (III) ; The end of the war (I): The fall of the Third Reich ; The partition of Europe (II): Radical changes and deportations ; New beginnings and traditions: Germany after capitulation ; Potsdam: the decision of the three great powers ; The end of the war (II): The atom bomb and Japan's capitulation ; Guilt and atonement: The Caesura of 1945 (I) ; West, east, third world: The Caesura of 1945 (II)
From world war to world war : retrospective of an exceptional period.
From the Armistice to the world economic crisis : 1918-33. The pace of revolution slows: Germany on the way to the Weimar Republic ; A blighted new beginning: Austria and Hungary in 1918/19 ; The struggle for independence: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Finland ; The east remains red: The Russian Civil War and the foundation of the third international ; The victors move to the right: The western powers on the eve of the Paris peace talks ; A fragile peace: From Versailles to the League of Nations ; Protest, prohibition, prosperity: The United States in the 1920s ; The international revolution is delayed: The rise of the Soviet Union and the divisions within left-wing parties in Europe ; Three elections and a secession: Post-war Britain ; Confrontations and compromises: France 1919-22 ; A year of decisions: 1923. From the occupation of the Ruhr to the Dawes Plan ; Right against left: Culture and society in the Weimar Republic ; Authoritarian transformation (I): the new states of Poland, Czechoslovakia and the Baltic region ; Authoritarian transformation (II): From the Balkans to the Iberian peninsula ; Democracy evolves: From Sweden to Switzerland ; Fascism in power: Italy under Mussolini ; From Poincaré to Poincaré: France between 1923 and 1929 ; From empire to commonwealth: Britain under Baldwin ; From Dawes to Young: Germany under Stresemann ; Socialism in one county: The Soviet Union under Stalin 1924-33 ; Boom, crisis, depression: The United States 1928-33 ; The logic of the lesser evil: Germany under Brüning ; Stagnation and criticism of the system: France's Third Republic 1929-33 ; The power of continuity: Britain in the early 1930s ; Weimar's downfall: Hitler's road to power ; Storm clouds in the Far East: Japan invades Manchuria
Democracies and dictatorships: 1933-9. A New Deal for America: Roosevelt's presidency 1933-6 ; The process of seizing power: the establishment of the National Socialist dictatorship 1933-4 ; Rome's second empire: Fascist Italy and the war in Abyssinia ; The Great Terror: Stalin builds up his dominion over the Soviet Union ; Setting the course for war: National Socialist Germany 1934-8 ; Early signs of appeasement: Britain 1933-8 ; Mobilization of the right, popular front on the left: France 1933-8 ; Battlefield extremes: The Spanish Civil War 1936-39 ; A model for Germany: The anti-Semitic policies of Fascist Italy ; Neighbors at risk: Czechoslovakia, Poland and the Third Reich 1935-8 ; Roosevelt's Realpolitik: The United States from 1936 to 1938 ; Reaching out across borders: From the Austrian Anschluss to the Munich Agreement ; The ninth of November 1938: The History and consequences of the Jewish pogroms in Germany ; An alliance of opposites: The Second World War is unleashed
Fault lines in western civilization: The Second World War and the Holocaust. War as annihilation: The fifth partition of Poland ; From 'Drôle de guerre' to the battle for Norway ; France's collapse: The campaign in the west ; Tokyo, Washington, Berlin: A change in international politics 1940-41 ; From 'Barbarossa' to Pearl Harbor: The globalization of the war ; Genesis to genocide: The 'final solution' (I) ; A change of direction: The Axis powers go on the defensive ; Home fronts: Nations at war ; Occupation, collaboration, resistance (I): Eastern central Europe, South-east and North-west Europe ; Occupation, collaboration, resistance (II): France ; 'To cause this nation to vanish from the face of the earth': The 'final solution' (II) ; Collapse of a dictatorship: Italy 1943-4 ; The allies advance: Eastern Asia and Europe 1943-44 ; The twentieth of July 1944: German resistance to Hitler ; The partition of Europe (I): The Allie's post-war plans ; Completion of a mission; The 'final solution' (III) ; The end of the war (I): The fall of the Third Reich ; The partition of Europe (II): Radical changes and deportations ; New beginnings and traditions: Germany after capitulation ; Potsdam: the decision of the three great powers ; The end of the war (II): The atom bomb and Japan's capitulation ; Guilt and atonement: The Caesura of 1945 (I) ; West, east, third world: The Caesura of 1945 (II)
From world war to world war : retrospective of an exceptional period.