Publisher's Synopsis
This handbook attempts to provide a convenient reference work for both teachers and students of modern world history from 1914 to the end of the 1980s. It brings together chronological, statistical and tabular information which is not found elsewhere within the confines of a single volume. The handbook covers not only political and diplomatic events but also the broader fields of social and economic history.;It includes biographies of important individuals, a glossary of commonly used historical terms and a bibliography.
