title: A History of the World in the 20th Century
text: # A History of the World in the 20th Century
  
  A History of the World in the 20th Century is a history textbook by J. A. S. Grenville, first published in 1994. It is followed by A History of the World from the 20th to the 21st Century, which has reached its 5th edition, and is commonly used in International Baccalaureate 20th Century World History classes.
  
  ## Table of contents
  
  * Social change and national rivalry in the West, 1900–1914
  * The response of China and Japan to western dominance
  * The Great War, revolution and the search for stability
  * The continuing world crisis, 1929–1939
  * The Second World War
  * Post-war Europe, 1945–1947
  * The United States and the beginning of the Cold War, 1945–1948
  * The transformation of Asia, 1945–1955
  * The ending of European dominance in the Middle East, 1919–1980
  * The Cold War : superpower confrontation, 1948–1964
  * The recovery of Western Europe in the 1950s and 1960s
  * Who will liberate the Third World? : 1954-1968
  * Two faces of Asia : after 1949
  * Latin America after 1945 : problems unresolved
  * Africa after 1945 : conflict and the threat of famine
  * The United States and the Soviet bloc after 1963 : the great transformation
  * Western Europe gathers strength : after 1968
  * The Cold War and after
  