Europe, 1890-1945: Crisis and Conflict

1. THE NEW AGE European Peoples The Creative Passion The New Sciences New Visions of Society Freud and the Science of the Mind New Women Summary 2. THE MODERNIZATION OF NATIONS Political Ideas Britain: Toward Democracy and Crisis France: The Third Republic, 1890-1914 Italy: Unity and Frustration Germany: The Nation-State Austria Hungary: Dividing Humanity into Nations Imperial Russia: The Struggle for Modernity The Autocratic Monarchies in 1914 The United States: The Emerging Great Power Summary 3. GREAT WAR, GREAT REVOLUTION Causes of the War The Course of the War The Home Fronts The Peace Settlements The Russian Revolution of 1917 The Environment Summary 4. BETWEEN THE WARS: A TWENTY-YEAR CRISIS The First Triumph of Fascism: Italy The Weimar Republic: Germany, 1918-1933 Germany Under Hitler, 1933-1939 Authoritarianism in Iberia Successor States to the Habsburg Empire Other Authoritarian Regimes in Europe The Soviet Union Summary 5. THE DEMOCRACIES AND THE NON-WESTERN WORLD Great Britain France The United States The East Meets the West: Western History and World History Summary 6. THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH International Politics Between the Wars The Road to War, 1931-1939 World War II, 1939-1942 Victory for the United Nations Aftermath Summary Chronology Suggested Readings