The World Since 1945

Events and trends from the end of the Second World War to the present, emphasizing the orgins of the Cold War, decolonization, Europena integration, globalization, the rise of China, India and Japan, the revolutions in Easten Europe in 1989 and the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union, the third wave of democratization, Islamic fundamentalism, 9/11, and the international financial crisis of 2008-2009.