Twentieth Century 2: Post-War Challenges

Author: Various Publisher: HTAV Publishing Length: 288pp Item number: 1666 ISBN: 9781875585038 AU $50.00 (incl GST)

Winner 2017 Educational Publishing Awards Australia
Category: Best Student Resource – Senior – English / Humanities / Languages / Arts / Technologies / Health & Physical Education

Judges: ‘HTAV Twentieth Century series is an extremely comprehensive reference resource that is rich in sources, stimulus and media resources. The very well designed text makes the substantial content accessible. The activities and exam practice questions will be of great assistance to senior students.’

Sample chapters:

Chapter 1: Origins of the Cold War
Chapter 4: The Cuban Missile Crisis
Chapter 10: Terrorism

This brand new, full-colour student textbook includes the following features:

> Full-colour design
> Engaging narrative
> Links to supplementary web resources
> Maps
> Summary diagrams
> Timelines
> Primary sources
> Historical interpretations
> ‘Skills Focus’ tasks
> Varied activities, including Source 
> Analysis, Exam Practice and Extension
> Trivia
> Glossary
> Index

CONTENTS:

SECTION A: Competing Ideologies
Snapshot: World War II
Snapshot: The Superpowers after World War I
Snapshot: Ideologies and 'isms'

Chapter 1: Origins of the Cold War
Snapshot: The United Nations
Chapter 2: Cold War Tensions
Chapter 3: Life Behind the Iron Curtain 
Chapter 4: The Cuban Missile Crisis
Snapshot: The Korean War
Chapter 5: The Vietnam War
Chapter 6: End of the Cold War

SECTION B: Challenge and Change
Snapshot: Decolonisation
Chapter 7: The Civil Rights Movement in the United States
Chapter 8: Popular Movements in Australia
Chapter 9: The Arab-Israeli Conflict
Chapter 10: Terrorism

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